KYC drive on concessional milk cards saves Aavin ₹36 lakh a month
80,000 old milk cards weeded out in the past one month The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation, which sells dairy products under the Aavin brand, has managed to weed out 80,000 old monthly cards by updating know your customer (KYC) details over the past month. With this, the dairy cooperative would be saving ₹36…
Cow dung products by rural Chhattisgarh women selling online now
Chhattisgarh had earlier initiated a scheme called ‘Godhan Nyay Yojana’, to buy cow dung from dairy farmers at ₹2 per kg to offer them financial support. Thousands of rural and poor women engaged in making products from cow dung in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district have received a fillip with the administration now ensuring that their products reach…
Assam govt extends NDDB’s management of WAMUL dairy for 5 yrs
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) on Saturday said it will manage West Assam Milk Producers’ Cooperative Union Ltd (WAMUL) for another five years. The Assam government has extended NDDB’s management of WAMUL, the board said in a statement. NDDB Chairman Meenesh Shah met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on August 6. The Assam government…
Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Livestock-dairy farming
Basically, machines powered by Artificial Intelligence can not only act, but also understand and analyze. It has the potential to revolutionize human lifestyle. AI is still at a very nascent stage and the opportunities it could unravel, is still ambiguous. It is projected that eventually, AI will bring about qualitative progress and innovation; enhancing individual…
Odisha govt sanctions Rs 11 crore assistance for one lakh dairy farmers
As part of Odisha government’s assistance to the people affected due to the pandemic, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has sanctioned Rs 11 crore for one lakh dairy farmers of the state. About one lakh milk farmers received the assistance of up to Rs 6,000 as per the package. As many as 3,600 milk production cooperatives…
KMF to invest Rs 1000 crore for inorganic growth in Maharashtra and Goa
KMF’s Managing Director BC Sateesh said that the co-operative is planning to buy two plants; in Mumbai and one each in Goa and Pune. “The tenders for the acquisition in Mumbai have been issued. We have drawn a Rs 1000 crore expansion plan by acquiring the dairy processing units,” he said. On the spree of…
Minister Jagadish urges farmers to focus on dairy farming in Telangana
Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Tuesday urged the farmers to focus on dairy farming; in addition to agriculture, which would help in improving their earnings. Attending a review meeting on the orientation-programme for Gopala-Mithras held in Udhayaditya Bhavan on the premises of the district Collectorate; Jagadish Reddy said that milk and dairy products were…
KMF Milk launched in Vidarbha and plans are to scale from 10K-30K LPD
Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) will sell 10,000 lpd of fresh milk in six districts of Vidarbha from August 1. The target is to increase this figure to over 30,000 litres covering the entire region by the end of 2021. Situated in eastern Maharashtra, Vidarbha region has 11 districts;Amravati, Akola, Bhandara, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Nagpur,…
Milk procurement up by 14% in Gujarat through the pandemic
Sustained-agricultural exercise-and-steady-milk-costs for dairy-farmers led to a 14% enhance-in-milk-procurement through the pandemic. Provisional knowledge from dairy sector sources exhibits that milk procurement in Gujarat, together with from different states, elevated from 215.65 lakh kg per day (LkgPD) in 2019-20 to 245.8 (LkgPD) in 2020-21. Data tabled in Parliament by the ministry of agriculture exhibits that…
Buffalo milk standards revised to 5% fat and 9% SNF by FSSAI
In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 (1) in regulation 2.1, relating to ‗Standard for Milk the standards for buffalo milk have been revised to 5% fat and 9 % SNF. Earlier these standards were having 6% fat and 9 % SNF. Normally raw milk in India is…