Turn your waste into clean energy-Homebiogas Israel in India
An Israeli company capable of turning food scraps and other organic waste into fuel will be installing 7,000 units of its system on dairy farms in India. HomeBiogas has created a miniaturized anaerobic digester, a tank that uses microorganisms to digest the organic waste and release a methane-rich gas, which can be used for cooking or heating…
Chocolate V/s Traditional Mithais: The more the merrier
ACCORDING TO THE International Cocoa Organisation, India’s per capita consumption of chocolate is between 100 gm and 200 gm a year, much lower than Japan, which consumes around 2 kg of chocolate per person per year, and even Europe, where the consumption lies between 5 kg and 10 kg a year. Yet, chocolates seem to…
Sena (UBT) to stop Gokul dairy’s milk tankers today
Leaders and workers from the district have decided to stop milk tankers moving in and out of the processing facility at Kolhapur’s largest milk cooperative Gokul dairy, on Saturday morning. Ten days back, the Sena(UBT) delegation met Gokul dairy management and demanded an increase in the prices of cow milk to Rs36 per litre. The dairy reduced the…
With KMF pressurising, milk prices likely to be hiked soon
The milk federations in the state have proposed price rise of Nandini milk. It is learnt that the prices of milk and curd will increase from New Year. Minister for animal husbandry Venkatesh said, “The milk federations have placed a proposal in front of state government saying that they are incurring loss and the milk…
3.73 lakh women milk farmers benefitted in AP with increased price
Minister for animal husbandry and fisheries Seediri Appalaraju has said all dairy farmers are leaning towards Amul as it is in partnership with the AP government under the Jagananna Paala Velluva Programme. It is providing the highest prices for milk to the milk farmers, he said, and refuted the allegations of opposition leaders that milk…
Parag Milk Foods revenue grows 20% in Q2 FY24
Parag Milk Foods Limited (PMFL), a leading manufacturer and marketer of dairy-based branded products i announced its unaudited financial result for the quarter and half year that ended September 30, 2023, reporting the total revenue for the quarter at ₹7,981.6 million registering a growth of 20.1 per cent y-o-y. Despite the high festive base of last…
Does Adding Milk to Tea Make it ‘Poisonous’? What We Know
Mixing tea with milk is not harmful and not poisonous as claimed. A video is going viral on social media which shows a person claiming that drinking milk tea is ‘poisonous’ for our health. He adds that when flavonoids present in tea and casein present in milk gets mixed, they ‘form a chemical’ which is very harmful to the body….
Drinking milk is an acquired habit since around 10,000 years back
Though Shashi Kumar, the co-founder and CEO of Akshayakalpa Organic, a farmer entrepreneurship initiative, was born into a farming family, it was never a career path his father wanted him to pursue. “I am not the exception. He educated me out of farming to become an engineer,” recalls Shashi, who went on to spend close…
Amit Shah launches ‘Bharat Organics’ brand of NCOL
Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday launched the ‘Bharat Organics’ brand of the newly created National Cooperative Organics Ltd (NCOL) and asserted that it will emerge as the most “trusted” brand in India and abroad. Shah also launched the NCOL’s logo, website and brochure. He gave away NCOL membership certificates to five cooperative societies. Addressing…
Sangam Dairy(Guntur) releases 13 new products on Deepavali
Sangam Milk Producer Company Ltd., the oldest dairy company in Guntur, released 13 new products including bakery items and sweets on Wednesday. Sangam Dairy chairman Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar and the Board of Directors released the products at an event organised in Guntur city, amidst the gathering of all its distributors and agents who attended from…