RBI uses milk supply data for dairy farmer loans
For many farmers or dairy farmers, getting a bank loan is impossible for want of any credit history. But here is a solution: A new platform by the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub that enables a borrower to tap into the data on milk sold by the dairy farmer to Amul or the land records available…
Hunger and Dumping Milk Highlight Global Food Injustice
To borrow the title of Raj Patel’s book , the world is ‘stuffed and starved’ at the same time — and this week served as a stark reminder of the inequalities in the global food system. In one example, there’s more milk than ever in the US but nowhere left to process it, so farmers…
Human Breast Milk Compound Alters Brain Growth in Mice
Human breast milk is a nutrient-rich mix that helps nurture newborns through an essential period of development. New evidence suggests that one particular compound derived from breast milk, the sugar myo-inositol, might play an important role in the maturation of the newborn brain. The research was published in PNAS. A vital period for the developing brain Human…
Maharashtra fixes Rs 34/ litre procurement price for cow’s milk
The Maharashtra government on Friday announced a minimum procurement price of Rs 34 per litre for cow milk. This is the lowest rate which dairy firms must pay to farmers to buy milk. The earlier rate was approximately Rs 32. The state plans to revise rates every three months. Consumers fear this could raise milk…
Vipul Chaudhary sentenced to 7 years in prison for graft
A Gujarat court on Thursday sentenced former minister Vipul Chaudhary, 57, and 14 others to seven-year imprisonment after convicting them in the case related to siphoning off ₹750 crore from the Mehsana District Milk Producers Federation, popularly known as Dudhsagar Dairy. The dairy is India’s largest co-operative dairy and part of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing…
KRRS urges Karnataka govt. to increase milk price to ₹60 per litre
Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sabha has urged the State government to fix the price of milk at ₹60 per litre and do away with the support price of ₹5 per litre being given to milk producers. In a press conference in Shivamogga on Thursday, July 13, H.R. Basavarajappa, State president of the Sangha, said the milk…
Punjab to impart free dairy training to sc farmers-Minister
In order to increase the income sources of Scheduled Castes (SC) farmers and give them opportunity to adopt dairy farming, Chief Minister S Bhagwant Mann led Punjab Government has decided to impart free dairy farming training to SC Candidates. Disclosing this here today, Punjab Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Department Minister Mr. Gurmeet Singh…
Modi Inaugurates 4000 Cubic Mtr Dung-Based Biogas Plant
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated NDDB’s 4000 cubic mtr (per day) capacity cattle dung-based biogas plant at Varanasi on 7 July 2023 in the gracious presence of Anandiben Patel, Hon’ble Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and other eminent dignitaries. Terming it as a pathbreaking step leading to sustainable dairying,…
Assam: Sale of sophisticated powder to make artificial milk
There have been reports of rise in the sale of sophisticated powder to manufacture artificial milk in Assam’s Dhubri district, calling for immediate action against businesses involved in the adulteration. After a sting operation, it was discovered that few businessmen in Dhubri were selling a sophisticated powder used to manufacture artificial milk. As a result,…
Who Will Solve Israel’s Milk Crisis? Not Bezalel Smotrich
The neosocialists are in shock. They don’t understand how it’s possible that there’s no milk in the stores. After all, the milk cartel is their ultimate dream. Everything there is planned and orchestrated from above in true North Korean style, so how is it possible that there’s a shortage of milk? No other place in…