Assam state govt and NDDB will form a company to promote dairy sector
To promote dairy sector in Assam, state government and National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) will form a company. In an attempt to expedite the economic development of the milk farmers and make the dairy sector more commercially viable, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma held a meeting with the senior officials of NDDB. The meeting had…
Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2020 released by Parshottam Rupala
Union Minister released the report “Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics- 2020”. This report contains tabulated data sets giving production estimates for major livestock products like Milk, Eggs, Meat and Wool. Key highlights of this report from the dairy sectors are summarised as below: The milk production in India has grown by 5.69% to reach 198.4 MT…
Centre may avoid sensitive sector like Dairy in FTA with UK and Australia
The government is stepping up its efforts to speed up free trade agreements (FTAs) with ministerial level consultations with Australia and the UK lined up this month. Also read : Inclusion of cheese in India-EU FTA is not healthy for Indian dairy farmers Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal will be in the UK for talks…
Centre may avoid sensitive sector like Dairy in FTA with UK and Australia
The government is stepping up its efforts to speed up free trade agreements (FTAs) with ministerial level consultations with Australia and the UK lined up this month. Also read : Inclusion of cheese in India-EU FTA is not healthy for Indian dairy farmers Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal will be in the UK for talks…
Display best before date for loose sweets or pay upto Rs 2 lakhs fine : FDA
Intensifying surveillance amid the festive season, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have told sweet shop owners to display a ‘best before date’ for loose sweets kept in trays/containers. Pune FDA joint commissioner (food) Shivaji Desai said sweet shop owners and others in the food business can decide on the ‘best before date’ depending on…
Netherlands is willing to establish a dairy training centre in Uttar Pradesh
Netherlands ambassador Marten Van Den Berg met chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Tuesday. The ambassador expressed the country’s desire to support UP in modernising its agriculture and dairy sector. The Ambassador also told the CM that the Netherlands is willing to establish a training centre in the state to train its dairy farmers in…
Agri transport and marketing plan extended to dairy, aid hiked
The government on Friday extended the Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products Scheme to dairy products and increasing the rates of assistance under the scheme. Under the TMA scheme, the government reimburses a certain portion of international freight charges to mitigate the disadvantage of high freight costs faced by Indian agriculture produce…
Agri transport and marketing plan extended to dairy, aid hiked
The government on Friday extended the Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products Scheme to dairy products and increasing the rates of assistance under the scheme. Under the TMA scheme, the government reimburses a certain portion of international freight charges to mitigate the disadvantage of high freight costs faced by Indian agriculture produce…
The Milk Bag Project: 7.5 Lakh Milk Packets Recycled by 3 women
It is often a small spark that inspires big change. That is exactly what happened when a viral social media post led to three women saving almost 7.5 lakh plastic milk packets from polluting the earth. This post cautioned its viewers against snipping the corners off packets of milk to pour the liquid out. It…
Banas dairy to set up a 5 Lakh LPD dairy plant for Rs 500 Crs in Varanasi
THE Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited— popularly known as Banas Dairy — in Palanpur has formally started preparations for setting up a milk plant in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi. A team from Banas Dairy, led by its chairman Shankar Chau-dhary, accompanied by directors, visited Varanasi Sunday after allocation of land…