It varies, but most of the holdings are small, that is, part of a traditional system. I think the social aspects were mentioned a few minutes ago, that as they modernize the dairy industry there will be huge impacts on the small holders of one or two cows. What are those people going to do if they're not producing milk any more? These are huge issues that need to be dealt with.
But there are certain parts of the country where there already are some modern dairies and where they're open to modernizing even more. So as Mr. Sood, I think it was, mentioned earlier, we need to have regional strategies. That's exactly what we need.
When we get into this issue of SMEs, our three largest artificial insemination company members already have partnerships with artificial insemination companies in India. They've made those partnerships and they're trying to introduce and develop Canadian methodologies and the way we do things with semen production alone—let alone improved genetics. Of course, that's part of it as well. So that's already started and we've already brought Indians to Canada.
Part of our proposal with the National Dairy Development Board is to send experts to live in India for a period of time. That hasn't happened yet because of the issues they're encountering inside India.
I was concerned at the lack of action that we seemed to be encountering, or the momentum that perhaps we had lost, but in digging deeper into this recently we realized that these are internal Indian issues. No country is actually gaining an advantage over us in market access or being partnered with India on the building of infrastructure, because right now the whole thing is kind of on hold.