Ananda launched Chocolate flavored Probiotic Dahi for the first time in India on world milk day June ,01, 2020
https://youtu.be/WNIg62pGLrc Ananda launched Chocolate flavored Probiotic Dahi for the first time in India on world milk day June ,01, 2020
World Milk Day celebrated on June 01,2020 by Indian Dairy Association North Zone
World milk day was celebrated on June 1, 2020 through out the out the world. It was declared as world milk day in 2011 by FAO. The purpose was to acknowledge the efforts of dairy farmers and promote milk as a global food. In India multiple stakeholders organized webinars and celebrated the occasion by inviting…
G R Chintala is new Chairman of NABARD
Sh G R Chintala is appointed as the new chairman of The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural development (NABARD). He took charge from Dr Harsh Bhanwala last week. He has been providing his services to the bank in various capacities including MD of NABARD Finiancial services Ltd a subsidiary of NABARD located at Bangaluru….
One stop Food Safety and Compliance System (FoSCoS ) to ber launched on June 1st by FSSAI
Long awaited IT enabled single point food regulatory and compliance system will be launched on June 1st. This system will be replacing the existing Food Licensing & Registration System (FLRS). The new platform will integrate all services related to registrations, licensing, renewals, annual returns filing and also be covering a plethora of other services related…
Maharashtra dairy sector could only achieve 50% of its procurement target
Maharashtra state was the first one to announce a milk procurement program to collect 10 lakh litres of milk at Rs 25 per liter from the farmer and creating its own buffer stock of SMP and butter. The sceheme was supposed to procure almost 4.5 to 5 crore litres of milk in around 6-7 weeks…
Mr Arun Singhal IAS appointed as Chief executive Officer, FSSAI
Sh Arun Singhal , a senior bureaucrat has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Friday by the Centre. Mr Singhal, a 1987-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, is at present Special Secretary in the Department…
Covid-19 Fall in milk prices put pressure on dairy farmers in Maharashtra
Milk was sold at Rs 30 to 35 before the corona outbreak in Maharashtra state. After the lock down the demand of all milk and milk products plummeted and milk prices came down to Rs 20-22 per liter. A large number of cottage milk processors are also engaged in making Khoa, curd, paneer etc ….
Dairy Sector needs modernization of infrastructure to grow : Dr Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
As per Dr Bhanwala , chairperson NABARD, covid -19 may create opportunities for infrastructural reforms in dairy and agriculture sector. Current infrastructure in dairy is either not sufficient or not efficient enough to handle the increasing milk production and processing requirements. In cooperative sector there is an immediate need for modernizing of 75 lakh lpd…
Dairy farmers in Udaipur village near Guwahati are in bad shape due to Corona
A small cluster of dairy farmers around 13 kms from the district center are in very bad shape due to COVID-19. Their main target segment are from HORECA segment i.e Tea, sweets shop, hotels and restaurants. They are unable to serve to them and they do not have enough of cold storage to convert excess…
Punjab Dairy industry in crisis amid lockdown
There are 40 milk plants in the state with 30 of them run by private sector and 10 by the government under the aegis of Milkfed ( Punjab state milk federation). Nearly 80% of these [plants comes under MSMEs with an installed capacity of 35 lakhs lpd. Smaller plants got closed in initial phase of…