Akshayakalpa Organic -Signature Dairy Farming in Tamil Nadu
Akshayakalpa Organic, India’s first certified organic dairy company and producer of the country’s most popular organic milk, today established a stronger footprint in Tamil Nadu with the inauguration of its Model Organic Dairy Farm in Pooriyambakkam village in Changalpattu District, located 90 KMS south of Chennai. Named Akshayakalpa Velan Kudil or ‘farmer’s home’, the new model…
Govt must consider importing wheat and milk fat to check inflation
Wheat and atta prices are on fire, retailing at an average of Rs 30 and Rs 35 per kg respectively, as against Rs 20 and Rs 25 a year ago. As a mitigatory measure, the Narendra Modi government has approved offloading three million tonnes (mt) of the cereal from the Food Corporation of India’s (FCI)…
DAIRY NEWS Ahead of GIS-2023, U.P. dairy sector exceeds investment target
Uttar Pradesh, which already stands on top in milk production in the country, has exceeded the investment target in the dairy sector by 200% ahead of the proposed Global Investors’ Summit (GIS) even as a Dutch company has expressed its interest to set up a dairy plant in the state, a government official said here…
Suzuki to use cow dung for its CNG cars, signs MoU with NDDB
India’s largest car manufacturer company Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) has announced that it will use cow dung to power its CNG cars. An MoU has been signed between Maruti Suzuki and Asia’s largest dairy manufacturer National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), SMC stated while announcing its growth strategy for 2030. The company in its growth strategy for 2030 said…
Heritage Foods: What lies ahead after a soft quarter?
Highlights Higher raw milk prices impacted the performance Value-added products saw higher growth The March 23 quarter performance also likely to be impacted Investors with a longer-term view can add and accumulate on declines The December ’22 quarter results of Heritage Foods (HFL; CMP: Rs171) were below expectations. Companies in the dairy segment continued to remain impacted…
Anand Kumar takes charge as chairman of Visakha Dairy
Adari Anand Kumar was appointed as chairman of Visakha Dairy here on Thursday. The decision was made in the dairy’s board of directors meeting. Senior director Reddy Ramakrishna proposed the name of Adari Anand Kumar as the next chairman of the dairy, while the board and other directors unanimously approved his name. It may be…
In Gujarat’s dairy world, BJP gets the cream of the crop
Seventeen years ago, an anguished Dr Verghese Kurien, pre-empting his removal, had stepped down as founder-chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) — the umbrella body of dairy co-operatives based in Anand that owns the iconic Amul brand. Announcing his resignation on March 6, 2006, at the Indian Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), another institution he…
Animal Equality Investigating and Exposing Abuse to Buffaloes
From 2021 to 2022 Animal Equality has conducted an extensive investigation into 27 small and medium farms, 6 animal markets and 2 slaughterhouses in the states of Bihar, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana and West Bengal. In 2017 Animal Equality introduced its first nationwide investigation into dairy farms documenting illegal practices routinely conducted for the production of…
Amul elections: Shamal Patel to continue as GCMMF chairman
Shamal Patel was re-elected as the chairman of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the umbrella body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat which owns the brand Amul, Tuesday. Valamji Humbal was also elected as the GCMMF vice-chairman for the second time in the election that took place in Anand in presence of the heads of all…
Online Open Course on dairy farming by NDRI Karnal for all
It give us immense pleasure in informing you all that ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal is going to introduce Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) in Commercial Dairy Farming from 1st February 2023 in collaboration with ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad. It is a two month online course open to all. It’s registration…