Global dairy prices are at 8-year high as supply tightens
Dairy prices jumped 4.6 per cent at the global auction overnight to hit an eight-year-high, as tight milk supply stokes demand for New Zealand’s biggest export commodity. The Global Dairy Trade price index rose to 1397, its highest level since March 2014. The average price for whole milk powder, which has the most impact on…
Kerry highlights top flavors for innovation in global 2022 taste charts
Kerry’s APAC Taste Charts for 2022 predict the top new flavors for the coming year, as well as profiling mainstream and key tastes. Taste trends are underpinned by proactive health and sustainable nutrition priorities, but also a desire to explore traditional tastes in new formats. Tastes that offer novelty, over-the-top indulgence and targeted health benefits…
Global dairy prices are at 8-year high as supply tightens
Dairy prices jumped 4.6 per cent at the global auction overnight to hit an eight-year-high, as tight milk supply stokes demand for New Zealand’s biggest export commodity. The Global Dairy Trade price index rose to 1397, its highest level since March 2014. The average price for whole milk powder, which has the most impact on…
Dairy firm Hatsun Agro’s Q3 profit rises 24%, slowest in 3 quarters
India’s Hatsun Agro Product, which sells products under brands such as Arun IceCreams and Arokya Milk, reported its slowest quarterly profit growth in three quarters, hurt by heavy floods in its home state of Tamil Nadu. Last month, cyclone Michaung flooded a large part of the southern Indian state, which is home to 13 of…
Adopt Natural Farming to bring new green revolution : Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday encouraged farmers to create a “new green revolution” in India by embracing natural farming methods, pointing out that the abuse of artificial fertilisers is wreaking havoc on the quality of land, water, and human health. He claims that the misuse of chemical fertilisers is making farmland infertile, and that adopting…
Pay more money for Nandini milk as price may go up by Rs 3 in Karnataka
A litre of Nandini toned milk (blue sachet) currently costs Rs 37. The cost may go up to Rs 40. Simultaneously, the prices of other varieties and curds will also increase. “For the past two-and-a-half years, milk prices have not increased even as the procurement and supply cost saw a 30-40 per cent jump owing…
You must not use wood to put out the fire: Organic milk story in India
Last week I participated in a panel discussion organized by AIOI in a seminar on Organic Dairying in India. It was a wonderful experience attending the same and listening to the great insights of the key stakeholders. India is the largest producer of milk in the world with 7% of the contaminated milk. Aflatoxins and…
Katrej with an NGO shows how dairy business can be more than just milk
A JOINT venture between the Pune District Cooperative Milk Union (Katraj Dairy) and Ved Vasudev Prathisthan promises to throw some solutions to dairy farmers’ problems with local animals. Instead of just milk, this joint venture promotes commercial usage of cow dung and urine which can be an added source of income for the farmers. Indian…
Women who don’t eat enough meat or dairy put their health at risk
Last year, the total number of vegans worldwide was thought to be around 79 million. A not insignificant portion of the population, you’ll agree, but some could be rethinking the plant-based lifestyle, after a scientist claimed this week that women who don’t eat enough meat or dairy put their health at risk. Expanding on his…
Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide
Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide, which is bad for your health and the planet. The global food system is in disarray. Animal agriculture is a major driver of global heating, and as many as 12 million deaths from heart disease, stroke, cancers and diabetes are each year connected to eating the wrong things, like too much red…