Milk wars boil over Amul’s plans for Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
The recent battles between the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand, and Nandini in Karnataka and Aavin in Tamil Nadu may have some roots in a 10-year-old headline-grabbing tussle between Verghese Kurien, the driving force behind India’s White Revolution and GCMMF chairman, and Amrita Patel, chairman of the National Dairy…
Moopay announces heat index insurance plan to farmers
STELLAPPS’ FINTECH ARM mooPay, in partnership with IBISA Network, HDFC ERGO and Gramcover, has launched a heat Index-based insurance plan for farmers. The plan aims to provide financial compensation to mooMark dairy farmers to offset income loss due to a fall in milk productivity during heat waves in summer. The cover guarantees insurance benefits for farmers…
Protest over Amul’s entry into TN appears political
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has raised a protest over the entry of Amul into the milk procurement scene in the State. The point of contention is whether Gujarat’s Amul (which like Karnataka’s Nandini sells its value added products in all States) should be allowed to procure milk outside its home State, in Tamil…
Confident of achieving every target that we have set Jayen Mehta
The opportunity for the Indian dairy sector is very large and I am very sure in the years to come whatever targets that we have got, it will be easily achievable for a simple reason that the brand Amul has achieved a size and a scale and more importantly the trust of the consumers and…
Ahead of monsoon season, what is the food supply situation
Even as kharif plantings are set to take off with the southwest monsoon, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has reiterated its earlier forecast of (June-September), the supply and demand balances in key food commodities is comfortable, yet tight. While there are no shortages for now, a great deal hinges on the monsoon, especially its…
Cooperative or Combative? The Saga of Milk Wars
During the recent Karnataka elections, one divisive issue was about the milk brand Amul from Gujarat versus local brand Nandini. How did this become an electoral issue? That is because Amul was seen to be muscling into Nandini’s territory. The entrant was identified with the incumbent ruling party and local Nandini’s cause was championed by the opposition….
Medha dairy project to start shortly in Daltonganj
The multi-crore Medha dairy project in Daltonganj is ‘most likely to be inaugurated/commissioned in this coming month of June.’ Secretary Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Co-operative, the government of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Aboobacker Siddique P, in a message to a query from this correspondent, wrote “The plant will be inaugurated shortly.” General manager of the Jharkhand state…
World Milk Day: Deciphering the benefits of plant-based milk
World Milk Day is observed on June 1 every year. It was established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to recognise the importance of milk as a global food. Apart from cattle, camel’s milk and donkey’s milk are on the supermarket shelves. With the increasing alertness regarding shortfalls of lactose…
HP CM Allocates Rs 250 Cr for Modernizing Milk Plant in Kangra
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu visited the milk processing plant in Dhagwar, located in Kangra District, and announced a significant investment of Rs 250 crore to upgrade the facilities. This move is part of the state government’s commitment to developing a robust milk-based economy and improving the rural economy as a whole. Chief…
DAIRY NEWS Include Dairy Foods Daily in the Diet to Improve Health
Healthy dairy foods like milk, curds, yoghurt, buttermilk are being consumed since long almost throughout the world. Today, India’s dairy industry consists of a wide- range of both regional and international products including fermentable and non-fermentable products. Curd and yoghurt are considered valuable segments of the industry. References to yoghurt and health date back to…