Amul to hike its ghee price by Rs 30 per kg
At present, a one kilogram pouch of Amul Ghee and Sagar Ghee in Ahmedabad is selling at Rs 530, while private brands such as Gowardhan is selling the same pouch at Rs 699. In a fortnight, a kilogram of Amul Ghee will cost Rs 30 more across India, after the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) took…
TD questions YSRC government leasing out Chittoor Dairy
Telugu Desam national spokesman Kommareddy Pattabhiram accused Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of deliberately destroying dairy industry in Andhra Pradesh only to promote Amul Dairy. Speaking to media here on Thursday, he alleged that the actual plan of CM is to hand over properties of AP Dairy Development Corporation and other cooperative dairies in the state…
What’s common between Amul and Parle G?
Consumers and brands alike were blindsided by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, but a few companies with operations outside India were slightly ahead of the curve. While the list of companies able to achieve this feat is long, for a household brand, catering to a country of 1.38 billion people, it was one of the toughest strategies to crack….
Competition for dairy is from fake chemical products
“I see stability in the dairy prices and the market. There may be a small increase but the situation is tight in dairy supply because demand is much more than what the organised sector is able to meet. The pre Covid level was much higher than the pre Covid level. It is good for the…
BJP’s milkmen prove their ‘doodh shakti’
The 2022 assembly election was a litmus test for at least a dozen-odd ‘dudhwalas’ from Gujarat’s dairy co-operatives who were fighting to get a footing in the state’s governance. As results were declared on Thursday, milkmen linked with BJP emerged as clear winners while those linked with Congress or were contesting as independents tasted defeat. Interestingly, the…
Sri Lanka to get help from India’s NDDB to develop dairy industry
The committee consisting of representatives of the public and private sectors will work with the multidisciplinary team of the NDDB to prepare a short, medium and long-term plan to increase local milk production to reduce the country’s dependence on imported milk powder. “The NDDB and India’s Amul Milk Company have taken steps to provide the necessary technical…
Kisan Our Owners’: Amul Aims To Double Farmers Income In Next 4 Years
By creating a dairy herd that is genetically superior, tested, and able to produce twice as much milk at the same cost, Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL) intends to double the income of farmers in the next four years, news agency ANI reported. According to Amit Vyas, managing director of Amul Dairy, they are enhancing…
Amul’s utterly butterly supply melts; eateries switch to alternatives
It is the season of cooking and baking, but with Amul Butter in short supply, consumers aren’t like the cat that got the cream. A shortage only means market shelves without butter on them. “There is a supply-side deficit. We are now able to procure only two packs of butter a day, as opposed to three packs (each containing 30 packets of…
Gujarat polls: Dairymen hold the key to electoral success for parties
A stable livelihood under the Amul model coupled with an increased income over the past five years is a big pro-incumbency factor for over 36 lakh dairy producers, whose vote will decide the outcome in at least 88 seats out of the Municipal corporation areas in Gujarat polls. Dairy leaders believe that notwithstanding the issues of high…
No plans to increase Amul milk prices in near future: RS Sodhi
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets milk under the Amul brand, has no plans to increase prices of milk in the near future, its MD R S Sodhi said. GCMMF mainly sells milk in Gujarat, Delhi-NCR, West Bengal and Mumbai markets. The cooperative sells more than 150 lakh litres of milk per day, out of…