A disappointing Budget for farmers
Little to cheer. The focus seems to be more on raising productivity and climate resilience than farm incomes The big expectation from the Budget for agriculture was a significant increase in PM Kisan, but there was no such announcement. It stays at ₹6,000 per farmer and ₹60,000 crore as outlay for the year. Finance Minister Nirmala…
FAO 2024 report talks on financing tools for food security
Introduction to the FAO Food security report 2024 Recent years have seen a worrying rise in hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, pushing the world off track to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets 2.1 and 2.2, to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. which aim to end these issues by…
Budget 2024-25 Missing Dairy Focus again
The much-awaited budget for FY 25 by Modi 3.0 has been presented. As a dairy farmer, I searched the Finance Minister’s speech for words such as cow, livestock, dairy, milk, animal husbandry, methane, manure, FMD, Brucellosis, and biogas. Unfortunately, none of these terms were mentioned even once. I then looked for other key terms and…
Purabi Dairy inks pact with Assam to run 5,000 litre dairy plant
West Assam Milk Producers’ Co-operative Union Ltd (WAMUL), known under the brand Purabi Dairy, on Sunday said it has joined hands with the Assam government to operate a 5,000-litre daily capacity plant in Dhemaji district. Purabi Dairy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of Dairy Development (DoDD), enabling WAMUL to operate…
Demand of packaged milk drops in Indore
A decline in packaged milk sales due to subdued demands amid surge in daily collection has left Indore cooperative dugdh sangh worried, looking for markets outside Indore. To sell surplus stock of milk, Indore dugdh sangh is tying up with Bundelkhand dugdh sangh. Dr RK Doorwar, CEO, Indore Cooperative Dugdh Sangh said, “Sales of packaged milk have dropped leaving a good…
Cost-effective method to detect adulterants in Milk at Dairy
A team of researchers from Banaras Hindu University and Sikkim University developed a new, cost-effective, and home-based method for detecting adulterants in milk using the evaporation process and machine learning algorithm. The method has been developed by Tapan Parsian a research scholar under the supervision of Archana Tiwari of the department of Physics, in collaboration with Ajay Tripathi,…
Plan to set up milk producers’ dairy union in every district of India: Amit Shah
Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre has set a target to have a co-operative bank and a milk producers’ union in each district of the country and also establish in the next five years multipurpose primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) in two lakh panchayats that have no cooperative institution. Addressing the ‘Sahkar se…
New App To Help Haryana dairy Farmers Estimate Milk Yield Accurately
Farmers in Haryana will soon find it easier to estimate the milk yield of their cows and buffaloes. Scientists at the Central Institute of Buffalo Research (CIRB) are developing a mobile app to assist with this. The app, currently in testing, claims an 88 per cent accuracy rate in predicting milk yield. It will be…
How surplus milk powder is dairy industry’s new problem
With many states enacting stringent anti-slaughter laws, Indian dairy farmers have been facing challenges in disposing of unproductive cattle — the ones that do not give enough milk or happen to be male. Now, they have been hit by a new “surplus” problem — of skimmed milk powder (SMP). Cooperative and private dairies are holding…
Opportunities for dairy in the health and wellness space-A Podcast
Consumers are spending their disposable income on health and wellness items, which is a $350 billion industry, and there is a lot of opportunity for dairy. Paul Ziemnisky, executive vice president of global innovation partnerships for DMI, shares the four strategy areas, business development partnerships, challenges and future trends. Dairy Stream host Joanna Guza dives…