Eurotier Innovation Awards: CowToilet awarded gold
The CowToilet, created by Hanskamp AgroTech BV, has been awarded the Gold Medal at the Eurotier 2021 Innovation Awards. The reduction of emissions from animal production is becoming increasingly more important. While measures to tackle this issue have long targeted the emissions that arise in animal housing, the current focus is increasingly aimed at reducing…
DSCC method a viable tool in mastitis management
A study confirms that by looking more closely at the cell distribution in the milk sample, 18% more udder infections can be detected than by looking at SCC alone. According to a press release, the recent study was conducted with Canadian dairy farms and confirms that the DSCC (differential somatic cell count) method is a…
MSP and FCI based cereal economy not comparable with dairy economies: Dec 6th
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Activists urge government to restart College milk and milk powder program
Various nutritionists, docs and activists have written a letter to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa to restart the Ksheera Bhagya programme for presidency and aided faculty college students. According to them, there was a “total shutdown” of milk and milk powder since June 2020. While all college students got 500 grams of milk powder for the…
Amul becomes 8th largest dairy in the world as per IFCN Germany
As per the latest IFCN , Germany Amul becomes 8th largest dairy in the world handling 1.2% of global milk production. The IFCN Top 20 Milk Processors List provides validated, comparable data to better understand the largest dairy processors worldwide. In 2020, IFCN has extended its research about these processors and has created the world’s first dairy…
Dairy, MSP and FCI: Myths and realities
Comparing the cereal economy with dairy sector is illogical. Despite their faults, MSP regime and FCI are relevant There has been a considerable amount of debate and discussion on the new the farm legislation, which has raised concerns over the relevance of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism. Also, the Food Corporation of India (FCI)…
Every hour a farmer is committing suicide in India : Let us set new targets
Delhi border is sealed and the farmers are waiting for getting an appointment with the government to at least listen to them. They do not know that the job of the government is to make good laws and their reprint versions. The poor farmers also don’t know that it is their own responsibility to understand…
Indian agriculture needs many more Verghese Kurien clones
It is ironic that on Verghese Kurien’s 99th birth anniversary, farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were marching to Delhi to protest against the three farm Bills that were passed by the Lok Sabha in September. Kurien who spent his life, after his engineering studies in Michigan, with the farmers of Anand, would…
Banas Dairy registers new milk procurement record
The Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (BDCMPUL) popularly known as Banas Dairy registered highest single day procurement on Friday. Asia’s largest milk co-operative procured 73.93 lakh litres per day (LLPD) milk – up against last year’s single day peak which was 73.71 LLPD. “This became possible because of the hard work of our…
Nation pays tribute to Dr Verghese Kurien on National mIlk Day
Dr Kurien’s birthday on 26th Nov is celebrated as the National Milk Day since 2014. A tribute to him on his day, remembering his work and his life, is in order. Post-independence and till the 1980s, India faced a shortage of milk with rationing and fluctuations in seasonal supply. Operation Flood completely transformed the lives…