The carbohydrate-protein mix in Indian food habits
India is often referred to as the diabetes capital of the world. How did it earn this dubious distinction, accounting for 17 per cent (approximately 420 million) of the world’s population afflicted by abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated blood glucose levels? Is India’s diabetes epidemic driven by genetic or external factors? While the former…
Foreign Trade Policy 2023: EPCG obligation to for dairy exempted
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal today launched the Foreign Trade Policy 2023 saying that it is dynamic and has been kept open ended to accommodate the emerging needs of the time. He stated that the policy had been under discussion for a long…
Amul group’s turnover crosses Rs 72,000 crore in 2022-23
The group turnover of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd — the umbrella body of milk cooperatives that markets Amul brand of milk and dairy products — crossed Rs 72,000 crore for the year 2022-23. On a day when GCMMF hiked the prices of milk across the state, the body in a statement said the demand for…
Who is controlling the raw milk price in India?
The current dairy market situation in India is passing through an interesting phase. We asked 23 questions at the beginning of this year to forecast the dairy sector . One of the questions was to check if we would be requiring winter clothes on Holi in north India. We saw a drop in temperature during…
Promising probiotic for dairy cattle headed to marketplace
A probiotic developed at the University of Alberta is the first of its kind to have widespread benefits for dairy cows, and is starting to make its way into the marketplace. Immunobiologist Burim Ametaj, a professor in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, says his research on the breakthrough probiotic is showing several benefits for…
Milk may stay on boil due to cattle, fodder shortage
Milk prices, which have been rising steadily in the past year, may hit new highs in the year ahead, as production suffers due to insufficient fodder and fewer new lactating cattle, and farmers raise prices to make up for losses in the last two years. Fodder availability has declined thanks to increased exports of wheat…
OMFED Milk To Become Costlier by Rs 4/lit In Odisha
The state-owned Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (OMFED) has announced a hike in the price of milk by Rs 2 per 500 ml for all variants. The new rate will be effective from April 1, 2023. A packet of 500 ml OMFED Toned Milk has been increased from Rs 21 to Rs 23, Premium…
FSSAI revises order on curd labelling, allows use of regional names
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), on Thursday, revised its order allowing the use of regional common names on labels of curd packets amidst a row in Tamil Nadu over the Hindi term “Dahi”. In a statement on Thursday, FSSAI said that food business operators food can use the term “curd” along…
Tamil Nadu says no to Hindi word ‘Dahi’ on Aavin curd packets
The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, Aavin, has informed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) that it will not print the word ‘Dahi’, the Hindi equivalent for curd on its packets. The FSSAI had proposed to drop the English term ‘curd’ and had wanted to include the term Dahi and had…
Saudi Arabia achieves self-sufficiency in dairy products
Saudi Arabia has been able to achieve self-sufficiency — 120 percent — in dairy products and its derivatives in less than half a century. The Kingdom is among the top dairy exporting countries not only in the Middle East but also in the world, which came as result of the the balanced development plans and…