Purabi Dairy introduces innovative prefabricated milk booths
Assam’s largest dairy cooperative, Purabi Dairy, has introduced prefabricated ‘milk booths’ at various locations across the state. In the initial phase, multiple Purabi Milk Booths will be established in Guwahati, offering a wide range of Purabi and Mother Dairy products to consumers. As part of this initiative, the first Purabi Milk Booth was unveiled at Guwahati…
Cyclone Michaung: Shortages of drinking water, milk, and diesel
The devastating impact of Cyclone Michaung, which made landfall in Andhra Pradesh on December 5, has left parts of Chennai in a state of severe distress. Characterised by its super-cyclonic intensity, the cyclone unleashed a torrent of rain, leaving several localities in Chennai under water on Wednesday even about 30 hours after the rain stopped. The…
Japan to Use Fuel from Cow Dung to Power Its Rockets!
In 2017, a Kolkata-based company launched extremely cheap and environment-friendly biogas-fuelled buses on the Indian streets. Five years later, such biogas-run buses were being deployed in Indore as well. Now, a Japanese space start-up has taken this a step further, by adopting a similar technology to power rockets! Japan’s space industry opened a new chapter…
Andhra Pradesh registers 26% inc in milk production in 6 years
Andhra Pradesh recorded nearly 26% increase in milk production in the last six years — from 1.21 crore tonnes in 2016-17 to 1.54 crore tonnes in 2022-23 — as per the basic animal husbandry statistics released by the Union government a few days ago. The state, which accounts for 6.7% of the country’s total milk production, stood in fifth place among all states…
Maharashtra plans to gift over 12L bovines to farmers in 5 years
Nagpur: Bullish on dairy industry , the state’s animal husbandry department has drawn up plans for a big cattle drive in Vidarbha and Marathwada regions. A proposal to make available 12.5 lakh cattle for farmers of the two regions in five years may soon be put up before the state cabinet. It means that in…
Neobank Digivriddhi Bags $6 Mn Funding in Series A funding
Digivriddhi will deploy the fresh proceeds to expand its footprint across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra The Bengaluru-based firm offers dairy farmers and microenterprises access to institutional credit while easing and digitising payments across the dairy value chain In 2021, the startup bagged seed funding of $3.1 Mn led by Omnivore and…
Don’t take coercive action on Jaipur dairy officials: HC to cops
A single bench of Rajasthan High Court on Saturday directed the police not to take coercive action against the dairy officials in the FIR registered against them at Chaksu police station in a case related to the detection of unsafe milk from a collection centre at Kothun. The court has asked the state government to submit its reply by December 20. Also read : CID-CB to…
Milk prices are falling because of adulteration in Maharashtra?
Distantmers who have been affected by climate change are now facing plummeting prices of agricultural produce. In addition, the main milk business for the farmers is also betrayed and the price of milk directly dropped from 34 rupees per liter to 25 to 26 rupees per liter. While there is a shortage of water and fodder in…
Higher production, sustainable development must for dairy
The department of dairy science and food technology, of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, along with the Indian Dairy Association (Eastern UP chapter), organised a national conference on Thursday to commemorate the 102nd birth anniversary of the ‘milkman of India’, Dr Verghese Kurien. The theme of the conference was “Intensive integrated dairy development in eastern…
Katraj Dairy slashes milk price by Rs 2/ litre for consumers
The Pune District Cooperative Milk Producers Union – the owner of brand Katraj- has decided to reduce the price of its toned milk sold in pouches by Rs 2/ litre. A statement issued Thursday said that from December 1, 1 litre milk pouches will now be available at Rs 53. Also 250 gm packs of…