U.S. slice of cheese export market growing strong
Global economic uncertainty apparently isn’t diminishing foreign demand for U.S. cheese, according to a monthly market update from the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC). Multiple factors, especially adequate cheese supplies at competitive prices, put the U.S. in a position to continue export growth in the near term and increase its presence in the international market….
Bring empty milk pouches and water bottles and get discount on fuel
Nearly 700 milk pouches have been collected this month. Get a discount of Re 1 on a litre of petrol and 50 paise off on a litre of diesel. In return, dispose empty milk pouches and plastic water bottles at a petrol pump in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara. This is how Ashok Kumar Mundra, owner of Chhaganlal…
Dairy records 67.15% increase in exports in Q1 of FY23 as against last year same quarter
Continuing with the trend from the previous year, the exports of agricultural and processed food products rose by 31 per cent in the first three months of the current Financial Year 2022-23 (April-June) as compared to the corresponding period of FY 2021-22. According to the provisional data released by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and…
Why a Dietitian Says You Don’t Have to Avoid Dairy Milk
Cow’s milk offers many health benefits that plant-based milks don’t. You may have grown up believing that drinking a glass of dairy milk every day was great for your health. But then, over time, we began hearing more and more about the dangers of artery-clogging fat content in traditional dairy, and cow’s milk became almost passé. Meanwhile,…
Rebuild agriculture to make it future-ready
GIVEN the spectacular role Indian farmers have played in pulling the country out of the ‘ship-to-mouth’ existence and turning it into a food-surplus nation, agriculture has emerged as the brightest star of the Indian economy. Whether we would like to publicly acknowledge it or not, a vibrant agriculture had laid out a strong foundation for…
Fair price for farmers: How consumers can spur the change
I have often quoted an OECD-ICRIER study that puts an economic value to the losses suffered by the Indian farmers in the 16-year period, between 2000 and 2016. It puts the loss at a staggering Rs45 lakh crores, which means on an average, every year farmers suffered a loss of roughly Rs2.64 lakh crore. While…
Everything we thought about the origins of lactose tolerance is wrong
A new study published today in the journal Nature by University of Bristol and University College London researchers found that people’s ability to digest lactose became common almost 5,000 years later than the first signs of human milk consumption, which date back to around 6,000 BC. They also found, using new computer modeling methods, that…
Ancient Europeans were lactose intolerant. They drank milk anyway.
A group of scientists has concluded that ancient Europeans drank milk for millennia despite the digestive problems it may have caused, casting doubt on theories on how humans evolved to tolerate it. Scientists have long speculated that an enzyme needed to avoid any gastrointestinal discomfort developed rapidly in populations where domesticating dairy animals was prevalent….
18% GST on ice-cream parlours effective only from Oct 6, 2021
Ice-cream parlours can breathe easy as the Finance Ministry has said that the 18 per cent GST will not take retrospective effect. It also said that fees for entrance exams, issuance of migration certificates etc and charges for preferred location of land will not attract GST. Based on the recommendations by the GST Council in…
Milk collection drops in Gujarat as cattle disease spreads to more areas
With the dreaded viral infection Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) claiming over 1,500 cattle lives in Gujarat in the past 3-4 months, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Tuesday visited Kutch, the worst-hit district, to assess the treatment and vaccination efforts by the administration. Of the 54,000 reported cases in the State, Kutch district accounts for around…