India could become dairy basket of the region
India is the largest producer of milk in the world. Indian government has recently taken a few initiative to strengthen dairy infrastructure in the country. These initiatives include Animal husbandry infrastructure fund for Rs 15000 Crores. PM Modi always insist on pushing exports and limiting imports under the make in India scheme. Currently India is…
US express concern over mandatory BIS feed regulation in India
India is the largest producer of milk in the world. Organised sector dairies process around 35-40 % of available surplus milk . FSSAI, the food regulator in India conducted a nationwide milk adulteration survey in 2018. The survey findings showed presence of 5.7% aflatoxin M1 in milk with higher share by the organised sector. Antibiotics…
Dairy News 7×7, 5 July 2020, Export subsidy in SMP
In a recently held auction at global dairy trade, the price index jumped up by 8.3%. The quantities of dairy products traded also increased by nearly 20% as compared to the last auction. North Asia remained as the key buyer with almost 50% of the total traded quantities. A total of 25688 MT of dairy…
Dairy farm bombed to the east of Gaza strip by Israel
Israeli aircrafts last night bombed several agricultural sites to the east of the besieged Gaza Strip. Helicopters and F-16 fighter jets attacked with at least five rockets across the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood. This locality is towards the east of Gaza City. WAFA reported that the Israeli artillery fired two shells at another plot of agricultural land to the northeast…
Heifer rearing park at Kattappana dairy
The Ernakulam Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union plans to set up a heifer rearing park on the Kattappana dairy premises. This park will have all imported hefers brought from other parts of the country. The milk union in Idukki district has a budget of ₹728 crore for 2020-21, said John Theruvath, the zonal chairman, on…
UMEED scheme in Pulwama igniting dairy entrepreneurship amongst the local youth
Pulwama districts is leader in milk production in J&K state with total production of 310000 MT of milk in 2019-20. The Jammu Kashmir State Rural Livelihood Mission (JKSRLM) has launched UMEED program under central government assistance. The district administration of Pulwama has established Automatic Milk Collection Units across the district. This administration is encouraging youth…
Uttarakhand state federation paid Rs 45 crores to 50000 member dairy farmers during Covid
Uttrakhand milk federation ,Aanchal, has 2551 village level cooperative societies in 13 districts. These societies have 51,121 members who are farmers and villagers and supplies milk to the VLC. The farmers receive the payment every month. Amongst 13 districts Nainital accounts for almost 20 % of total VLCs and 50% of total farmer members in…
Maahi a Farmers Producers Organisation excels in safety during Covid-19
Farmers producer organisation are the new generation of business model with focus on collective marketing. Maahi milk producer company is a similar initiative in Gujarat State. Maahi is operating in eight districts of Saurashtra and Kutch region . It has over 1 lakh farmers registered as member producers . These farmers are actually the owner…
Nationalised bank offers loans for supporting dairy business
Dairy sector surfaced up as one of the least impacted sector during COVID . The demand of milk and milk products at household level saw a huge upsurge during lockdown. The government has already announced dairy entrepreneurship development scheme for this year. The purpose of this scheme is to support dairy farmers and entrepreneurs to…
Amul approached government to get 160 Crore export subsidy for clearing SMP stocks
All dairies supported dairy farmers during the lockdown period even with lower demand of milk and milk products in the market. The excess milk was converted into SMP and butter. This created huge surplus of SMP and butter with most of the dairies in the country. Amul is the largest milk handling organization in the country….