India’s food exports rose by 25% to $1,3771 million in first half of FY 23
India’s agricultural and processed food products exports rose to $1,3771 million in April-September from $1,1056 million over the same period of last fiscal, as per the provisional data released by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S). As per the provisional data, for the year 2022-23, an export target of $23.56 billion has…
Aavin increases milk procurement prices by ₹3 a litre
Aavin on Thursday announced an increase in milk procurement prices by ₹3 a litre, and as a result, over 4.20 lakh farmers attached to 9,345 primary cooperative societies will benefit. A litre of cow milk will be procured at a price of ₹35 and buffalo milk at ₹44. The last time the milk procurement prices…
Rating agency ICRA says dairy industry reeling under high input cost
Rising price of milk procurement and higher operating costs keep dairy industry under pressure even as companies attempt to hike retail prices to combat margin pressures. While the revenue of the top six diary companies is expected to grow 12-14 per cent this fiscal, backed by strong demand revival and increase in retail prices, operating…
Lumpy skin disease had marginal impact on India’s milk output in FY23
India’s liquid milk production this year has been marginally impacted by the outbreak of the Lumpy Skin Disease in some parts of the country. The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has lowered milk output for 2022 by 0.5 per cent, or about one million tonnes, at 202.5 million…
Chennai: From milan? or from a milk packet?
As you sit down to read this article, a cup of coffee in hand, just wondering… what did you do with your milk packet? If you haven’t thrown it away, how about we try something different? Like, wash it in hot, soapy water, dry it, store it, collect a few more like it and ship…
Aavin ready to face NE monsoon with sufficient stock of UHT milk
Armed with over one lakh litres of Delight cow’s milk packed with UHT (ultra-high temperature) technology with a shelf life of 90 days, Aavin is gearing to face the northeast monsoon. Sources in the Tamil Nadu Cooperatives Milk Producers Federation, which owns the Aavin brand, explained that this time it was preferring these half litre…
Now, milk district Anand taps the Sun
Five years ago, Mahesh Manibhai Patel, a farmer with 11 ‘vigha’ land in Gujarat’s Anand district, used to spend sleepless nights because his village got electricity for only eight hours, often late in the evening or at night. Now, he can draw water 12 hours a day in the daytime. He not only gets a good night’s sleep, but…
Curcumin compound protects cattle from diseases: study
In a major breakthrough in creating immunity in cattle against infectious diseases, including mastitis, researchers of the Transdisciplinary University of Health Sciences & Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, have successfully validated the immunomodulation ability of a natural phytochemical compound with curcumin as the active ingredient. The study was carried out in Thrissur district in Kerala as part…
A new target found to combat AMR Salmonella affecting humans and cattle
Recent studies have found the emergence of multi-drug resistant Salmonella tphimurium DT104 that causes infections in humans and cattle. The rapid and unselective use of traditional antibiotics gives rise to the emergence of drug resistant phenotype in typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars, which has increased the difficulties in curing Salmonella-induced food-borne illnesses (majorly typhoid…
Haryana dairy cooperative Vita sees all-time high profit
Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd Chairman Randhir Singh Golan on Friday said the federation has earned a profit of Rs 49.57 crore in the last two and a half years owing to improving the quality of products. The total combined turnover of the federation rose from Rs 1,159 crore in 2019-20 to Rs 1,505…