How dairy politics is playing out in north Gujarat
For nearly a fortnight now, the Chaudharys of north Gujarat have been protesting against the arrest of former minister Vipul Chaudhary. A member of the ruling BJP in Gujarat, Chaudhary had once sided with Shankersinh Vaghela during a rebellion. He has been arrested on the alleged charges of irregularities worth Rs 800 crore in Dudhsagar…
Dairy cattle’s welfare is worse than that of beef cattle
According to a new study led by the University of Copenhagen, contrary to popular belief, dairy cows and other dairy cattle are likely to experience worse welfare than cows raised solely for meat. By asking 70 leading bovine welfare experts from all over the world to assess the welfare risks of the most common production systems in their…
Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy calls for promotion of organic milk
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday called for the promotion of organic milk and strengthening of services in veterinary hospitals in the state. During a review meeting of Animal Husbandry Department on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said, the production of organic milk should be promoted and awareness should be created among…
Nestlé Is Set To Release Animal-Free Dairy Products This Year
Food and beverage giant Nestlé has announced that it is “exploring” the potential of animal-free dairy through a partnership with California-based Perfect Day. The news makes Nestlé the latest in a growing list of established and start-up companies to look to the alternative dairy protein manufacturer as a supplier for new product lines. Starbucks and Mars are included in…
Smart labelling shouldn’t mislead consumers: Marketing of dairy foods
A lot of what we consume, food or otherwise, is influenced by our perception of it, rather than by facts. According to Food Marketing and Technology magazine, an average food and drink company in the B2B space spends around 24 per cent of its revenue on marketing. For scale, the food and beverage industry accounts for 3…
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…