The Dutch dairy industry: Country profile on dairy sector

Here we offer an overview of the Dutch dairy industry, look at trade and consumption, and zoom in on the sector’s focus on sustainability. Since April 2019, the Netherlands is home to 1.58 million dairy cows and calves with a yearly production of 14 billion kg of milk. Due to phosphate legislation, the sector has…

Andhra Pradesh: ACB unearths irregularities in Sangam Dairy

The Anti Corruption Bureau ( ACB) has found irregularities in bonus payment to milk producers and diversion of funds to unauthorized accounts in Sangam Dairy. Sources said ACB has seized documents to establish how senior TDP leader Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar became chairman of the dairy board  without the eligibility to become the board director. As per…

IFC to acquire 6.41% stake in Parag Milk Foods; Stock zooming up

Parag Milk Foods has executed a Subscription and Policy Right Agreement with International Finance Corporation (IFC). Under the agreement, Parag Milk will issue and allot 6756,756 fully paid Equity Shares to IFC. The subscription price would be Rs111 per equity share. Also read : IFC to fund Parag’s milk working cap and expansion plans With that,…

WTO scans India’s agriculture export subsidies policy

India’s farm subsidy policies came under the scanner at the World Trade Organization (WTO) during the country’s trade policy review (TPR), with members such as Canada, the US and Australia complaining that India has not declared its agriculture export subsidies for more than eight years, while Brazil held that India’s longstanding support measures for sugar…

Karimnagar Dairy opens three more stores in Telangana

To facilitate expansion of the marketing network and increase sales of milk and milk products of Karimnagar Milk Producer Company Limited, the authorities opened three departmental dairy parlours in different areas of the district. Besides Velgatoor mandal in the erstwhile Karimnagar district, parlours were opened in Mancherial and Bellampalli towns of erstwhile Adilabad district on…

DAIRY NEWS MCA orders inquiry into books of Mother Dairy F&V Pvt Ltd

The government has ordered an inquiry into the books of Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Private Ltd (MDFVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur said, “An inquiry under Section 206 of the Companies Act,…

Paras dairy launches mooPay a digital direct payment for dairy farmers

VRS Foods’s Paras Dairy brand, in collaboration with tech startup and World Economic Forum’s technology pioneer Stellapps, has launched a  first of its kind fully automated user friendly digital direct farmers payment application “mooPay”. “Paras for years has been trying to achieve a direct relationship with farmers. We have invested a lot of capital in…

Milk and dairy products prices increased in Bihar due to inflation

The prices of milk and dairy products have increased in Bihar Milk and dairy products prices have seen a big rise due to impact of inflation. The prices of milk and dairy products have increased in Bihar. The prices of milk and related products have been hiked by Bihar milk brand Sudha. Sudha has increased the…

Unproductive cattle abandoned in scores in Hyderabad and around

Dairy farmers in the city who are unable to take of unproductive cows are letting them loose on road. The hapless animals roam and often have to vie with ferocious street dogs to seek scraps and domestic garbage. “Around 40 injured cattles were rescued by our NGO last year and this year we have so…