India could become dairy basket of the region
India is the largest producer of milk in the world. Indian government has recently taken a few initiative to strengthen dairy infrastructure in the country. These initiatives include Animal husbandry infrastructure fund for Rs 15000 Crores. PM Modi always insist on pushing exports and limiting imports under the make in India scheme. Currently India is…
US express concern over mandatory BIS feed regulation in India
India is the largest producer of milk in the world. Organised sector dairies process around 35-40 % of available surplus milk . FSSAI, the food regulator in India conducted a nationwide milk adulteration survey in 2018. The survey findings showed presence of 5.7% aflatoxin M1 in milk with higher share by the organised sector. Antibiotics…
Dairy farm bombed to the east of Gaza strip by Israel
Israeli aircrafts last night bombed several agricultural sites to the east of the besieged Gaza Strip. Helicopters and F-16 fighter jets attacked with at least five rockets across the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood. This locality is towards the east of Gaza City. WAFA reported that the Israeli artillery fired two shells at another plot of agricultural land to the northeast…
UMEED scheme in Pulwama igniting dairy entrepreneurship amongst the local youth
Pulwama districts is leader in milk production in J&K state with total production of 310000 MT of milk in 2019-20. The Jammu Kashmir State Rural Livelihood Mission (JKSRLM) has launched UMEED program under central government assistance. The district administration of Pulwama has established Automatic Milk Collection Units across the district. This administration is encouraging youth…
Uttarakhand state federation paid Rs 45 crores to 50000 member dairy farmers during Covid
Uttrakhand milk federation ,Aanchal, has 2551 village level cooperative societies in 13 districts. These societies have 51,121 members who are farmers and villagers and supplies milk to the VLC. The farmers receive the payment every month. Amongst 13 districts Nainital accounts for almost 20 % of total VLCs and 50% of total farmer members in…
Nationalised bank offers loans for supporting dairy business
Dairy sector surfaced up as one of the least impacted sector during COVID . The demand of milk and milk products at household level saw a huge upsurge during lockdown. The government has already announced dairy entrepreneurship development scheme for this year. The purpose of this scheme is to support dairy farmers and entrepreneurs to…
Amul approached government to get 160 Crore export subsidy for clearing SMP stocks
All dairies supported dairy farmers during the lockdown period even with lower demand of milk and milk products in the market. The excess milk was converted into SMP and butter. This created huge surplus of SMP and butter with most of the dairies in the country. Amul is the largest milk handling organization in the country….
The toil behind smiles of dairy farmers in Karnataka-KMF story during Covid
Nandini is a second largest dairy brand in the country and third most popular brand under food and beverage category. The brand has a turnover of RS 14000 Crores and it represent over 9 lakh dairy farmers in Karnataka. KMF has 14 milk unions which collects milk from 254000 villages and caters to 10 million…
Aavin crossed 25 lakh lpd of milk sales in Tamilnadu state
Tamilnadu milk federation, known as, Aavin ,has set a record by selling more than 2.5 million LPD in the state. The federation did a phenomenal job in restructuring its supply chain during the lockdown period. Aavin was showing steady growth in the state capital market of Chennai for a long time. Other districts of the…
Dairy is an IT business now, transacting in milk
This title may sound weird , but it is a fact in today’s environment. The government announced lockdown in last week of March 2020 which induced tremors in dairy industry. Most of the dairy companies were not riding the wave of IT led supply chain over online platforms. Amul has been investing Rs 600-800 crores annually…