Minister criticised PETA suggestion to produce plant based products
Minister of state for home and information technology Satej Patil, who also heads the Gokul milk cooperative, Thursday criticised animal rights’ NGO PETA for suggesting that the dairy manufacture “plant-based milk products”. He tweeted, “Milk not just provides a healthy diet option to the common man but also provides livelihood to millions of farmers. Any…
Dairy farmers need a stable market and better pricing for liquid milk
In the first wave of the Covid agriculture-and-allied sectors put up a spectacular performance with an annual-growth of 3.4%. While the economy contracted by (-)7.2 per cent in 2020-21. In the farm-dependent population comprising cultivators and agricultural labourers, those involved in dairying and livestock constitute 70 million. Moreover, in the total workforce of 7.7 million…
Dairy farmers need a stable market and better pricing for liquid milk
In the first wave of the Covid agriculture-and-allied sectors put up a spectacular performance with an annual-growth of 3.4%. While the economy contracted by (-)7.2 per cent in 2020-21. In the farm-dependent population comprising cultivators and agricultural labourers, those involved in dairying and livestock constitute 70 million. Moreover, in the total workforce of 7.7 million…
Evening milk collection by Milma stopped in Malabar region
Covid wave 2 and its restrictions are making lives of dairy farmers in Malabar region of Kerala state miserable. Keralas state milk cooperative federation Milma has stopped collecting evening milk from the farmers in six districts of Malabar region. The collection has been stopped from Tuesday May 18 2021. The Federation is facing problem with…
Agenda for the government –#1 Don’t meddle with dairy industry
This article has two recommendations but we will covering related to dairy in detail here. The first is that the health minister needs to be replaced. He promotes neither truth nor good science that Azim Premji, noted industrialist told an RSS gathering recently . Instead, we would like to see someone like the collector of Nandurbar,…
Agenda for the government –#1 Don’t meddle with dairy industry
This article has two recommendations but we will covering related to dairy in detail here. The first is that the health minister needs to be replaced. He promotes neither truth nor good science that Azim Premji, noted industrialist told an RSS gathering recently . Instead, we would like to see someone like the collector of Nandurbar,…
Dairy Farmers begun throwing away their milk in Chattisgarh
A joint decision taken by the dairy farmers in Chhattisgarh’s Balod district to throw away 1,500 litres of milk down the drain daily has invited wrath and criticism by the people even as the district administration stated that during the lockdown they are allowed to sell the milk at fixed hours. Farmers of a local…
Inclusion of cheese in India-EU FTA is not healthy for Indian dairy farmers
After successfully blocking milk product imports from New Zealand and Australia under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, the Indian dairy industry is mounting similar pressure vis-à-vis a free trade deal with the European Union (EU). “They want to include dairy in the India-EU free trade agreement (FTA), which we are strongly resisting. When…
Inclusion of cheese in India-EU FTA is not healthy for Indian dairy farmers
After successfully blocking milk product imports from New Zealand and Australia under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, the Indian dairy industry is mounting similar pressure vis-à-vis a free trade deal with the European Union (EU). “They want to include dairy in the India-EU free trade agreement (FTA), which we are strongly resisting. When…
Dairy Cooperative hikes Rs 3 per litre to dairy farmers in Kerala state
Ernakulam Region Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (ERCMPU) has decided to pay farmers an additional ₹3 a litre for milk being collected by the union from March 1, 2021. The cooperative has been paying an additional ₹1.50 per litre to its farmers since February 1 this year. Chairman of the Ernakulam region John Theruvath said that…