In good times,the desert provides abundant food for goats and camels, which in turn provide the families with surplus milk and meat to sell in local markets.
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But it was he who seized control when, after 1970, the EEC started sending its surplusmilk powder and butter oil to India.
Declining milk consumption is hitting the country's northern dairy-producing region, so a local liquor storeowner decided to turn some of the surplusmilk into beer.