China’s Appetite for Consumer Dairy Products Grows
China’s economic growth has slowed dramatically from pre-pandemic gains as the country continues to implement Covid restrictions. China’s appetite for some dairy products, however, has grown as consumers look to value-added products and the country’s pork industry recovers following devastating outbreaks of African swine fever that began in 2018. According to Sarina Sharp, analyst with…
Amul’s digital platform opens a window to cattle trade
Move over cattle fairs. Dairy farmers are taking to online marketplaces to buy and sell bovines. Take Ghomtiben Patel, a dairy farmer in Gujarat’s Kheda district, who has put her 4-year-old buffalo on sale for ₹1.10 lakh on Pashudhan, an eBay like marketplace for cattle introduced by Amul recently. All Ghomtiben had to do was upload three photographs of the…
Akshayakalpa Organic to add 1,800 farms in 2022-23 fiscal
Akshayakalpa Organic, a Bengaluru-based organic dairy products manufacturer, will add 1,800 new farms to its production cluster in order to strengthen its position in the existing markets, says Shashi Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Akshayakalpa Organic. Cluster farms are basically made up of several individual farms that are close to one another, and currently, the…
Udupi Dairy farmers to launch postcard campaign seeking hike in milk price
Dairy farmers attached to Sahakara Bharathi, a NGO of cooperatives, will launch a postcard campaign by holding a convention of farmers in Udupi on October 27 to urge the State government to hike the milk procurement price by ₹5 a litre. According to the convener (dairy farmers’ cell) of Sahakara Bharathi Sanoor Narasimha Kamath, the…
Supreme Court quashes conviction for excess moisture in paneer
The conviction a person for food adulteration on the ground that moisture content in the paneer sold by him exceeded the prescribed limit of 70 percent, was quashed by the Supreme Court last week [Bhattacharjee Mahasya and anr vs State of West Bengal and anr]. A bench of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and V Ramasubramanian said that the expert evidence…
Lumpy skin disease spreads in AP, cattle population at risk
The lumpy skin disease (LSD), an infectious viral ailment among the cattle, is spreading in Andhra Pradesh, especially in the north coastal region, triggering concern among the dairy farmers and cattle breeders. Viral disease experts say LSD is a contagious viral disease and causes fever. It spreads among the cattle through mosquitoes, flies, lice and…
Application of ICT for transfer of technology in Dairying
The National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR), Karnal has developed a software package entitled, ‘Information System on Animal Genetic Resources of India’ (AGRIS-IS). It is a database system that can store information on different breeds of domesticated animal and poultry, list of livestock farm, semen banks, breeding tracts and related literature. The Veterinary Parasitology…
Dodla Dairy Sep22 Net Sales at Rs 695.32 crore, up 22.77% Y-o-Y
Reported Consolidated quarterly numbers for Dodla Dairy are: Net Sales at Rs 695.32 crore in September 2022 up 22.77% from Rs. 566.37 crore in September 2021. Quarterly Net Profit at Rs. 39.45 crore in September 2022 up 34.2% from Rs. 29.40 crore in September 2021. EBITDA stands at Rs. 64.62 crore in September 2022 down…
Milk prices are projected to increase by 28% this year.What’s driving costs?
At the end of 2021, the cost of a litre of home-brand milk in an Australian supermarket was about $1.30. It’s now about $1.60. What will it cost at the end of 2022? That depends on the continued effect of flooding on prime dairy-production regions in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, as well as on…
Dairy sector urges investment in R&D
Pakistan’s processed dairy sector is facing challenges in improving supply chain at a time when the livestock and agriculture sector of the country is in deep waters. According to stake holders, the country was already ranked as ‘low-productive’ when it comes to measuring per-animal yield. In milk production, however, despite being the third-largest producer of…