IDA to host 50th Dairy Industry Conference at Hyderabad-Mar 4-6th
India ranks number one in milk production and accounts for 26 per cent of world milk production. The milk economy is estimated to be more than Rs 8 lakh crores. Milk alone contributes about 4 per cent to the Indian GDP. Milk production in the country is growing at 5 per cent compared to the…
UP: PM Modi inaugurates Amul’s Banas Dairy Plant in Varanasi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Amul’s Banas Kashi Sankul milk processing unit in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The plant is Amul’s largest plant in Varanasi. The Banas Kashi Sankul is a milk processing unit of Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd built at the UPSIDA Agro Park, Karkhiyaon in Varanasi….
Daily milk collection in Indore at a five-year high
Daily milk collection at Indore Cooperative Dugdh Sangh has touched five-year high, leaving the federation baffled with towering stocks of unsold butter and skimmed milk powder made from converting extra milk. Per day collection of milk in Indore is almost 40 per cent more than the total demand. Milk collection at Indore Cooperative Dugdh Sangh that sells packaged milk has jumped to a five…
McDonald’s using cheap vegetable oil in place of cheese-FDA
Maharashtra FDA has taken action against fast-food giant McDonald’s, accusing it of deceptive practices related to the use of substitutes instead of real cheese in burgers and nuggets, as per a TOI report. The FDA has suspended the licence of a McDonald’s outlet in Ahmednagar, leading the chain to remove the term “cheese” from various items. The regulator alleges that McDonald’s used cheese analogues without…
World’s dairy sector growing at 2%, India’s at 6%: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday exhorted dairy farmers in Gujarat to make Amul “the world’s largest dairy brand”. Speaking at the golden jubilee celebrations of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand and sells dairy products under the brand name, he highlighted Amul’s current status as the world’s “eighth largest dairy”. He said…
Amul’s MD says we are ruthless in protecting our turf
In an interview with CNBC-TV18’s Shruti Mishra, Jayen Mehta, the Managing Director of Amul, shed light on the company’s market dominance, strategic approach to competition, and its unique stance on public listing. Amul, often hailed as the market leader in various dairy product categories, prides itself on not only protecting its turf but also actively…
Dairy Myth
A long-standing, prevalent belief champions dairy as the perfect food. While it may indeed be ideal for calves it is not the case for humans. The perfect food for humans is human milk, and that too only during infancy. Humans are unique in two respects: (1) they continue milk consumption beyond infancy and (2) they…
Meet the founder: FaunaTech’s Rajat Pandya on the quantified cow…
As FaunaTech cofounder Sidhant Jena observed a couple of years ago, the parallels between human and animal diagnostics were brought into sharp relief in the early days of COVID-19. As governments and healthcare providers were frantically trying to set up the most efficient testing, tracing and isolation protocols to contain the spread of COVID-19, FaunaTech was applying…
Banas Dairy to launch initiative to improve dairying in Purvanchal
Banas Dairy, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his upcoming visit to Varanasi, aims to bring about the development of the dairy sector in Purvanchal (eastern UP). According to a press statement from Banas Dairy, the successes achieved by adopting scientific methods in animal husbandry in the semi-arid region of Banaskantha, Gujarat, need to be…
Gokul Dairy reduces milk purchase rate in Belagavi, Khanapur
Kolhapur Zilla Sahakari Dudh Utpadak Sangh, popularly known as Gokul Dairy in the neighbouring Kolhapur district of Maharashtra is facing tough competition from the Nandini brand of Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF). Amid this, the sudden decision to reduce the milk rate by the Gokul Dairy has caused the wrath of farmers, especially in border taluks of Karnataka. An…