WPI Inflation Eases To 29-Month Low Of 1.34% In March
In its monetary policy review earlier this month, the RBI cautioned that adverse climatic conditions are a risk to the future inflation trajectory and predicted milk prices to remain firm going into the summer due to tight demand-supply situation and fodder cost pressure The wholesale price-based inflation eased to a 29-month low of 1.34 per…
Focus on livestock sector for income growth
ANIMAL husbandry, the practice of breeding and nurturing domesticated animals, has been an essential part of agriculture since ancient times. It played a crucial role in the development of human societies by providing milk, meat, wool and leather. Now its role in the production and export of dairy-based products (cheese, butter, ice cream etc.), meat…
India must open up for imports to capture foreign dairy market
Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand has proposed that India enhance its dairy exports as production in the country surpasses demand. This requires enhancing India’s competitiveness, while also opening up to dairy imports through free trade agreements with other countries, he said. “India’s dairy industry has been opposing any free trade agreement that involves liberalisation of…
Why the Amul-Nandini Controversy Is Important
The controversy about Amul coming into Bengaluru to sell liquid milk and curd has opened a new debate on whether it is threatening the local brand Nandini. While this looks like one more fishing expedition by the minister for co-operation after he dropped a hint of Amul and Nandini “working together”, it may be important…
India Not To Import Butter, Other Dairy Products-Rupala
Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala on Friday made it clear that the country will not import dairy products like butter and the supplies will be improved with the help of huge untapped domestic sector. Rupala’s statement comes even as his ministry’s top official had last week stated that the stocks…
India To Protect Interests Of Dairy Sector In EU-FTA: Piyush Goyal
India will completely protect the interests of farmers and dairy sector in the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has said. He was here on an official visit to hold discussions with leaders and the private sector on ways to further enhance trade and investment ties…
Milma resents entry of Nandini milk brand in Kerala
The Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (KCMMF), known by the brand Milma, has voiced serious concern over the tendency of some State milk marketing federations to aggressively enter markets outside their respective States, holding that this involved a breach of the cooperative spirit based on which the country’s dairy sector has been organised for the…
National Dairy Mela evokes good response in Karnal
Scientists delivered lectures on natural farming, diseases of dairy animals, animal nutrition, how to produce clean milk, value addition and processing of milk, fodder production and management, breeds of dairy animals, integrated farming system, and how to keep the soil healthy The National Dairy Mela, being organised at the ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute here, evoked…
AnimStok.com launch online trade services in animal science
AnimStok.com, an online marketplace in the entire animal science economy — dairy, livestock, poultry, and fisheries — will likely start commercial operation in two weeks. It will offer services in B2B, B2C and C2C segments. “We incorporated Animpet Ecomm in April 2021 and registered it as a 360-degree start-up after nine months. Now that our…
New dairy plants to boost UP’s milk production
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed the working of the animal husbandry department to work out ways in which UP’s milk production can be increased. The state government is working on setting up new dairy plants in Kanpur, Moradabad, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh and Prayagraj districts with the help of the private sector. The CM also focused on the need to work on…