Srilankan Govt. offers over 6000 acres of NLDB farm land to private firms
In a strategic move of improving dairy and animal husbandry industry, the Government is now offering state-owned land and farms to private sector firms, local or foreign investors on long term basis. Under this initiative a tender has been called from prospective investors to take over six large farms with lands in the extent of…
Gujarat dairy farmers pour milk on road, left cows at collector’s office
The farmers accused that the Gujarat government had promised about Rs 500 crore assistance for their cows, but none of the cowsheds got a single rupee. Because of this people left the cows at Collectorate Kacheri. Demanding a fair price in milk procurement and the removal of the cattle’s law, the Gujarat farmers poured milk…
Lumpy Skin Disease: Are we staring at a milk drought in Maharashtra?
With farmers struggling to contain the fast-spreading infectious Lumpy Skin Disease that has affected an estimated 19,000 cattle in the state, dairy unions fear that milk shortage could disrupt market and hit consumers like you hard Dairy farmer Dnyaneshwar Patil is in a tizzy when we meet him on a weekday afternoon at his cow…
Parched Bundelkhand sends 50,000 litres milk per day milk to Bihar
Bundelkhand, which faces acute water shortage, sends 50,000 litres of pasteurised milk (fat 6.5% and SNF 9.1%) to Bihar everyday, Bundelkhand Co-operative Milk Federation officials said. Hemraj Singh Patel, chief executive officer of Bundelkhand Co-operative Federation, Sagar, said, “About 1.25 lakh litres of milk is collected daily from the milk producers of Sagar, Damoh, Chhatarpur,…
Lumpy skin disease: 1 lakh cattle deaths, toll almost double in 3 weeks
THE CUMULATIVE number of cattle deaths caused by lumpy skin disease has gone up to 97,435 as on September 23 – almost double from the 49,682 deaths recorded about three weeks ago, according to official data. The data available with the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying shows that the lumpy skin disease has spread across 251 districts…
‘I’d rather eat a real burger’:Why plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
McDonald’s has shelved its meat-free burger trial and stock in one of the major manufacturers has dipped nearly 70% At the start of the year, McDonald’s launched a plant-based burger “sizzled on a flat-iron grill, then topped with slivered onions, tangy pickles, crisp shredded lettuce, Roma tomato slices, ketchup, mustard, mayo and a slice of…
Right-wing stirs row over halal certification again,TN co-op Aavin targeted
Interestingly, this is not the first time that Aavin’s halal certification has come under attack. There was a similar social media campaign against the state-run co-in 2020 when the AIADMK was in power. Right-wing social media handles have in the past spread misinformation several times about food products carrying a halal certification. The latest attempt…
Brokerage firm flags further increase in milk price soon
Dairy companies may need to again raise prices of milk in the second half of the current financial year, analysts at ICICI Securities said in a report on Wednesday. Dairy companies have raised milk prices by 8-10% in the past eight months due to a sustained rise in procurement prices. Wholesale milk prices have increased…
The evolution of lumpy skin disease virus
Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) is a viral disease that predominantly affects cattle. First identified in an outbreak in Zambia in 1929, the disease is caused by the LSD virus (LSDV), a poxvirus of the genus capripoxvirus. Until the 1980s. multiple outbreaks of LSD were confined to the African continent. The first reports of infections outside…
Nestle gung-ho about India, to invest 5000 Crores by 2025
Buoyed by the heralding of an “Indian age” in its business, Nestle has charted a ₹5,000-crore accelerated investment plan till 2025 to grow its India business. Speaking at a select media roundtable on Friday, Mark Schneider, CEO, Nestle SA, said: “We’re not only talking about an Indian decade here … but about the Indian age…