White Revolution of India—Myths and Reality
India is widely mentioned as the top milk producer in world and this achievement is frequently stated to have been achieved on the basis of its ‘white revolution’ which in turn is claimed to have been achieved on the basis of improved livelihoods of small dairy farmers. How real are these claims? This is not…
Is this what dairy industry was expecting from Budget 2023 ?
Everyone was eagerly waiting for the budget 2023-24 and finally it came. The last budget speech was of 38 pages and had no mention of terms like dairy or animal husbandry. This time our expectations were high as the budget speech was of 58 pages and had the word dairy mentioned 3 times and animal…
A farmers’ dilemma has the govt worried in Uganda
Mr Stanley Ntungire is the last of a dying breed. Born and raised in a cattle-keeping orthodoxy that is the age-old tradition of the Hima people of Ankole, he saw his forbearers rear the animals as a principal economic activity. They were a treasured source of prestige in society in a way few things compare….
How Hatsun Agro is growing byte-by-byte
Hatsun Agro Product Ltd has an asset that you can never find in its balance sheet, nor does it find a mention in any of its annual reports. The company has just begun to use it. “Data is Hatsun’s hidden asset,” says R G Chandramogan, Chairman of the ₹6,500-crore dairy products company, the biggest in…
Dairy farmers demand hike in milk procurement price in UDUPI district
Udupi District Dairy Farmers’ Union will stage a demonstration in front of the new milk dairy of Dakshina Kannada Co-operative Milk Producers Union Ltd (DKMUL) at Uppoor in Udupi district on Saturday, January 21, to urge the government to increase the procurement price of milk. Addressing press persons in Udupi on Thursday, a former Director…
TN: Dairy Farmers in Dire Straits as Fodder Prices Zoom, Inflation Bites
The Tamil Nadu Milk Producers Association is demanding an increase in milk procurement prices as fodder prices are spiralling. In November 2022, Aavin, the government milk cooperative, announced an increase of Rs 3/litre for milk procured from farmers and fixed the price of cow milk at Rs 35 and buffalo milk at Rs 44. But the milk…
Dairy farmers threaten protest against pasteurisation law
Dairy farmers threaten to take to the streets along with their livestock as the Punjab Food Authority revives its plan to start implementing the minimum pasteurisation law. “If the Food Authority tried to enforce the black law by force, we along with our cattle would protest on roads throughout the province,” threatened Shahbaz Rasool Warraich,…
Doubling of farmers’ income remained a pipe dream in 2022
After the tumult of a year-long farmers’ agitation against the three reforms-oriented farm laws came an almost protest-free 2022 on the agriculture front. This was the year when farmers’ income was to have doubled, but this has not happened. The aim was to raise farmers’ household incomes from an average Rs 8,050/- per month in…
‘India set to become foodgrain bowl’: Union Minister Parshottam Rupala
Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala says India is all set to become the world’s ‘foodgrain bowl’ as the country quickly moves towards organic and climate-friendly farming. In an interview with Rajesh Kumar Thakur, he said the repealed farm laws were in the larger interests of the country’s farmers and that…
Climate change. Why India refused to sign the ‘Methane Pledge
Much to the chagrin of the developed world, India has been a tough, unrelenting negotiator at the climate negotiations. In the 2021 Conference of Parties at Glasgow (COP26), India dug its heels in and got the wording of the text on coal changed from “phase out” to “phase down”. This nuanced semantic shift may not…