Dairy and poultry offer maximum returns to farmers
Middlemen and retailers seemed to have cornered a large part of the price paid by consumers, thus profiteering at the cost of farmers, during the time of high inflation in case of fruits and vegetables, working papers by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show. In working papers prepared by RBI’s Department of Economy &…
Dairy sector will stay protected in FTAs
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said dairy is a sensitive sector in India as it involves livelihood issues of small farmers and there are no plans at all to give any kind of duty concessions under any Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in this area. He said that India has not given any…
BL Agro Signs MoU with DeLaval for Dairy Sector
BL Agro’s arm B L Kamdhenu Farms Ltd, has signed an initial pact with Sweden-based DeLaval for a partnership in the dairy sector with an investment of around Rs 1,500 crore. On the second day of World Food India 2024, B L Kamdhenu Frams signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sweden-based DeLaval. The MoU…
Yogurt with fiber helps manage weight in perimenopause
More than 90% of women and 97% of men do not meet recommended intakes for dietary fiber, according to the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. On average, American adults consume only half the fiber they need. The National Institute of Health reports that insufficient fiber intake is associated with many serious conditions such as cardiovascular…
Modern Dairy, dsm-firmenich to collaborate on dairy sustainability
dsm-firmenich, innovators in health, nutrition and beauty, and China Modern Dairy Holdings Ltd. (Modern Dairy), a leading dairy farming operator and raw milk producer in China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance sustainability of Chinese dairy farming through the implementation of Bovaer. This is the first such agreement in China. Bovaer is the most…
U.S. milk production was less than year-ago levels
U.S. milk production was less than year-ago levels during each of the 12 months from July 2023 through June 2024, with an average decrease during those months of 0.8 percent from production during the prior 12 months. Total milk-solids production increased by 0.4 percent and milkfat production increased by 1.7 percent during the period. Fluid…
Future Milk Availability: 4 Critical Challenges Facing the Global and Indian Dairy Industry
Recently, I came across an insightful infographic by A Insights highlighting four pivotal challenges facing the global dairy industry. Intrigued, I delved deeper to understand the impact of these challenges on our ambitious forecast of around 660 billion liters of milk production and 800 ml of per capita availability by 2047, coinciding with India’s centenary…
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…