The future starts today, not tomorrow
The festival time is back. This time the new moon will rise from a much darker sky this diwali than before. Would the illumination of diyas and candles be sufficient to cover up the darkness which has been slowly encroaching the lives of millions and millions of victims this year. The victimization might not have…
Dairy is growing too fast: Lets put a few speed breakers
Milk is the single largest food consumed by Indians in terms of volumes and value. Dairy sector has outpaced the population growth by over 4.5 times since 2000. Everyone is talking about the intrinsic nature of this sector to double farmer’s income. Dairy business is amongst the quickest generator of cashflow for the farmers. There…
Food safety from feed to table in true sense
Finally the government has started to bring disruptive legislation for ensuring food safety and protecting consumer health. India feeds almost one fifth of the population of the world almost three times a day. Covid-19 has set the right context in the minds of the consumer for eating right and healthy foods. The days of unidentifiable food…
Remembering Dr Kurien is not enough : Lets walk the talk
We all remembered Dr Kurien on his eighth death anniversary on September 9th. It is quite apt to revisit the key principles which he so fondly embeded in the DNA of of NDDB and later operation flood program. Dr Kurien shared three golden principles tin his autobiography which paved the way of dairy development in…
SMP, Butter and ghee price in India gets bullish: Would it sustain ?
The commodities prices in India have begun to surge . The prices of SMP, butter and ghee are moving up. The price of milk in most parts of the country is also going up. In North the milk availability has become difficult and prices have gone upto Rs 45 per liter for buffalo milk ….
Higher farm gate milk price and higher consumer milk prices : Can they coexist? A blog
Let us deep dive down into our memories and look at the situation just around 8 months back . The whole of north India is shivering under the cold wave right now but the dairy industry is facing the heat of consumer’s wrath over hike in milk prices in most part of the country at…
Why should I pay more for pure and safe milk ?
Dear friends, Life is coming back to normal. After reaching 26.5 lakhs confirmed corona cases and 51000 deaths in India , we are no more afraid of Corona. We were more frightened on March 19th when Janata curfew was declared. At that time total deaths in the world were 8000 and the total number of…
Replacing SNF with Protein will make milk pricing in India inclusive and milk more safe
“Carpentras, a village in southeastern France, which shortly held the country’s all-time heat record of 44.3 degrees on last Friday. The record was topped again later in the afternoon in the southern village of Villevieille, 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the east, which measured a thermometer-busting 45.1 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).” Same is true with…
Relevance of Revenue shared price model of sugarcane for milk ? An out of the box approach
Dairy farmers are facing the wrath of COVID 19 due to lower prices being paid by dairy processors . India has different levels of milk prices today. Milk price received by the dairy farmers is classified on the type of buyers and region form where milk is procured. The following illustration gives average milk prices…
Let’s try something wrong
In last fortnight India saw highest number of Covid cases on daily basis followed by highest number of Covid testings. One could see a strong correlation here which is good. Unlock is again getting locked down in various parts of the country. On dairy front we are hearing a lot of announcements on state led…