Stellapps gets patent for farm management system
Dairy technology start-up, Stellapps Technologies Pvt Ltd, on Monday, said it has been granted a 20-year patent for its invention – farm and herd management system, which helps dairy stake holders to remotely monitor and manage their farms through mobile devices. “We have been granted a patent for an invention in the automated, IoT-based, artificial…
All-women milk business gives better living standard for rural families in UP
Women in the parched landscape of the Bundelkhand region are steering towards self-sufficiency through milk production run by a well-structured women self-help group that has expanded to over 40,000 female members. These women are partners in Balinee Milk Producer Company Limited and have taken big strides since the inception of the company in 2019. The…
Haryana to raise purchase price of milk
Cooperation Minister Dr Banwari Lal today said the Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation had decided to increase the purchase price of milk from Rs 770 to Rs 800 per kg fat from October 1. The decision will directly benefit the milk producers. The minister said this would help the milk unions to reduce the cost…
How this D2C milk delivery startup helping farmers earn better income
Started in 2013 by IIM Indore alumni Chakradhar Gade and Nitin Kaushal, Country Delight, is a tech-first direct-to-home consumer brand delivering natural food essentials directly from the farmer to the doorstep of the consumer. The brand enters a household with fresh milk as the hook and does 8 million deliveries per month across 15 cities…
Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy calls for promotion of organic milk
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday called for the promotion of organic milk and strengthening of services in veterinary hospitals in the state. During a review meeting of Animal Husbandry Department on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said, the production of organic milk should be promoted and awareness should be created among…
Nestlé Is Set To Release Animal-Free Dairy Products This Year
Food and beverage giant Nestlé has announced that it is “exploring” the potential of animal-free dairy through a partnership with California-based Perfect Day. The news makes Nestlé the latest in a growing list of established and start-up companies to look to the alternative dairy protein manufacturer as a supplier for new product lines. Starbucks and Mars are included in…
Smart labelling shouldn’t mislead consumers: Marketing of dairy foods
A lot of what we consume, food or otherwise, is influenced by our perception of it, rather than by facts. According to Food Marketing and Technology magazine, an average food and drink company in the B2B space spends around 24 per cent of its revenue on marketing. For scale, the food and beverage industry accounts for 3…
Gujarat dairy farmers pour milk on road, left cows at collector’s office
The farmers accused that the Gujarat government had promised about Rs 500 crore assistance for their cows, but none of the cowsheds got a single rupee. Because of this people left the cows at Collectorate Kacheri. Demanding a fair price in milk procurement and the removal of the cattle’s law, the Gujarat farmers poured milk…
Lumpy Skin Disease: Are we staring at a milk drought in Maharashtra?
With farmers struggling to contain the fast-spreading infectious Lumpy Skin Disease that has affected an estimated 19,000 cattle in the state, dairy unions fear that milk shortage could disrupt market and hit consumers like you hard Dairy farmer Dnyaneshwar Patil is in a tizzy when we meet him on a weekday afternoon at his cow…
Parched Bundelkhand sends 50,000 litres milk per day milk to Bihar
Bundelkhand, which faces acute water shortage, sends 50,000 litres of pasteurised milk (fat 6.5% and SNF 9.1%) to Bihar everyday, Bundelkhand Co-operative Milk Federation officials said. Hemraj Singh Patel, chief executive officer of Bundelkhand Co-operative Federation, Sagar, said, “About 1.25 lakh litres of milk is collected daily from the milk producers of Sagar, Damoh, Chhatarpur,…