Making Aavin a profit-making enterprise high on agenda: Minister
Minister for Dairy Development Mano Thangaraj on Tuesday said making the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation a profit-making enterprise by increasing production and then paying the farmers their due without burdening the end consumer was the task that he had taken on hand. Talking about his plans to turn around Aavin after inspecting the…
EXOSOMM Looks to the Benefits of Mother’s Milk
BioFoodTech start-up EXOSOMM, Ltd., has explored the natural mechanisms inherent in human breastmilk to create a novel bioactive ingredient that can potentially support millions of adults with inflammatory disorders. Based on its scientific findings EXOSOMM developed an innovative technology that isolates exosomes—natural particles in maternal milk that play an important role in the healthy development…
Is ban on export of dairy products from Armenia to Russia political ?
For more than a month there has been a ban on the export of dairy products from Armenia to Russia. In Russia, this decision was justified by “the use of Iranian raw materials in Armenian products, the import of which into the Russian Federation is prohibited.” Although Rosselkhoznadzor checks revealed this problem only in the products of two…
Megmilk and Agrocorp announce joint venture
Megmilk Snow Brand Company Limited has announced a partnership with Agrocorp International Pte Limited, a Singapore-based global agricultural commodities company. The joint venture will manufacture and market plant-based food ingredients. In its ‘Medium-Term Management Plan 2025’, Megmilk had identified entering the plant-based food sector as an important new business area. Agrocorp too has been looking…
Who moved our Ghee? It has all but vanished from store shelves
There has been a ghee shortage in the market since Diwali season 2022. Top brands have been running out of stock at shop shelves and on online portals regularly. With the lean season in milk underway (April to August or the summer-monsoon months when production of milk falls in relation to demand), it seems that…
Does India have room for a dairy behemoth ?
On an October morning in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri, then Prime Minister of India, was engrossed in a conversation. He was looking to clear his doubts after spending the night at a farmer’s house in Anand, Gujarat. Shastri, after he was informed about the stellar performance of a local dairy cooperative, was keen to understand…
Lumpy is back in Rajasthan and the dairy dept gearing up to fight
The lumpy skin disease is back in the state, and the animal husbandry department is gearing up to fight it after a few cases were reported from various districts. It broke out in July last year and relented by September. This viral disease, according to figures from non-government organisations, killed more than 76,000 bovines. Department…
Aavin : Strike a balance between payment to farmers and pricing
Minister for Dairy Development Mano Thangaraj on Monday said that Aavin will focus on providing good procurement prices to the milk-supplying farmers while ensuring quality products to consumers at affordable costs. Addressing presspersons after reviewing the functioning of the department and the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, the Minister who was recently given the…
Milk and milk products’ inflation eased marginally to 8.85% in April
India’s retail inflation slid to an 18-month low of 4.7% in April, staying below the Reserve Bank of India’s 6% tolerance threshold for price rise for the second successive month, aided by the base effects from last April when it had hit an eight-year high of 7.8%. Price rise faced by urban consumers cooled to 4.85% in April…
Who exactly is a farmer? Does it include livestock rearing also ?
There is no clear-cut definition of a farmer in any government reports, but a comprehensive definition is provided in the National Policy for Farmers. This policy was drafted by the National Commission of Farmers, led by MS Swaminathan, and officially approved by the Centre in 2007. As per this policy, the term ‘farmer’ refers to…