Amul sells 10,000 lpd of fresh milk and 2000 lpd of yogurt in Kashmir valley
Amul India, a cooperative, which has 3.6 million dairy farmers associated with them, has successfully made inroads in the valley. The cooperative set up its dairy products plant last year, and a year later the products reach almost all districts, towns and city in the valley.An official told rising Kashmir, “Since past 10 months, we have…
Amul’s dark chocolate revolution-Coffee, orange, milk to Ecuador, Peru
Amul’s dark chocolate range is now one of its USPs. But for people who saw the ’80s, ’90s, it’s hard to forget the small chocolate bars that were considered a treat back then. A visit to any grocery store today to satiate cravings for chocolate will likely lead you to buying a certain product. Defined…
Collector assures payment of dues to dairy farmers in a week at Ongole
Prakasam district Collector Pravin Kumar assured the dairy farmers that necessary action will be taken to pay the dues to them within a week. He conducted a review meeting on the ‘Jagananna Paala Velluva’ programme with the officials from the Animal Husbandry and Co-operation departments and MPDOs at the Collectorate on Tuesday. Speaking at the…
Amul may acquire private land for proposed plant at Rajkot
The proposed plant of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) in Rajkot is facing troubles because of want of land. The dairy giant has rejected a piece of 100-acre land that was identified by Rajkot collectorate near Anandpar because of its high price. GCMMF has demanded another piece of land. The federation’s total budget for the proposed plant is…
Rabobank 2021 Global Dairy Top 20 Report released
On August 25th, 2021, Rabobank of the Netherlands released its annual Global Dairy Top 20 Report. Dairy giant Yili Group once again clinched the fifth spot following the previous year, remaining leader of Asia for the eighth consecutive year as the only Asian dairy company among the Top 5. Strong financial performance despite Covid-19 With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging…
Rabobank 2021 Global Dairy Top 20 Report released
On August 25th, 2021, Rabobank of the Netherlands released its annual Global Dairy Top 20 Report. Dairy giant Yili Group once again clinched the fifth spot following the previous year, remaining leader of Asia for the eighth consecutive year as the only Asian dairy company among the Top 5. With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging across the world, Yili has…
HC sides with Amul; serves injunction against kitchenware maker
Delhi HC holds that the word Amul is indelibly linked to milk products in India The Delhi High Court on Saturday granted ex-parte ad-interim injunction to Gujarat State Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GSMMF) in a case involving infringement of its popular trademark Amul by Maruti Metals, a maker of kitchenware and utensils. The court held that the…
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…
Milk procurement prices in Gujarat rose just by 3 paise in one year
Despite average milk production in Gujarat growing by 13 per cent in last one year; prices of milk paid to dairy farmers in the state rose by just three paise. Other cooperatives in states like Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, higher remuneration was paid during the same period . In Gujarat, the average milk procurement…
Banas Dairy to pay Rs 1,132 cr as incentive to 5.5L members
The Banaskantha District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd popularly known as Banas Dairy has announced an incentive of Rs 1,132 crore. That would be distributed among 5.5 lakh farmers who are members of the dairy cooperative. The announcement was made by dairy chairman Shankar Chaudhary; after the 53rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the dairy…