Maharashtra plans to gift over 12L bovines to farmers in 5 years
Nagpur: Bullish on dairy industry , the state’s animal husbandry department has drawn up plans for a big cattle drive in Vidarbha and Marathwada regions. A proposal to make available 12.5 lakh cattle for farmers of the two regions in five years may soon be put up before the state cabinet. It means that in…
Neobank Digivriddhi Bags $6 Mn Funding in Series A funding
Digivriddhi will deploy the fresh proceeds to expand its footprint across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra The Bengaluru-based firm offers dairy farmers and microenterprises access to institutional credit while easing and digitising payments across the dairy value chain In 2021, the startup bagged seed funding of $3.1 Mn led by Omnivore and…
Watchdog will ‘regret’ letting Coles buy milk processing plants
The ACCC approved the supermarket’s takeover of Saputo’s two dairy processing facilities after a ‘detailed review’ but farmers fear the move will reduce competition in the market Dairy industry representatives have said the Australian consumer watchdog will regret its decision to allow Coles to purchase two fresh milk processing facilities, making it the only supermarket in Australia…
Sensor measures cows’ Nitrogen impact on pasture by urination
AgResearch scientists have developed a smartwatch-like sensor which listens to a cow urinate, measuring the amount of nitrogen hitting the pasture. Livestock farming comes with several environmental challenges but one of the main ones is the contamination of waterways from nitrogen which comes from the urine of dairy cows. Scientists at AgResearch wanted to measure…
Are your Standard Operating Procedures fit for purpose?
The next number of weeks might be a good time to review your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on farm or even creating some new ones ahead of the new production year, explains Padraig O’Connor. A SOP is a document consisting of step-by-step instructions on how to complete a particular task. SOPs can be created for…
COP28 summit: Cow burps, food waste in focus on agriculture day
Climate advocacy groups are pressuring world governments gathered at this year’s United Nation’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to commit to cutting global food sector emissions, as the conference host promises to put agriculture in the spotlight. Global food systems– including farming and land use, livestock production, household food consumption and waste, and energy used in the…
Don’t take coercive action on Jaipur dairy officials: HC to cops
A single bench of Rajasthan High Court on Saturday directed the police not to take coercive action against the dairy officials in the FIR registered against them at Chaksu police station in a case related to the detection of unsafe milk from a collection centre at Kothun. The court has asked the state government to submit its reply by December 20. Also read : CID-CB to…
Milk prices are falling because of adulteration in Maharashtra?
Distantmers who have been affected by climate change are now facing plummeting prices of agricultural produce. In addition, the main milk business for the farmers is also betrayed and the price of milk directly dropped from 34 rupees per liter to 25 to 26 rupees per liter. While there is a shortage of water and fodder in…
A farmer’s fate: living in hope or perishing in despair
Kolakkad native M R Albert (73) committed suicide in Kerala on the day after the national Milk day. He had served as the president of Kolakkad Dairy Co-operative Society for 25 years. He had to give his life because of a paltry Rs 2 lakh loan from Kannur District Co-operative Bank. How much does a…
Higher production, sustainable development must for dairy
The department of dairy science and food technology, of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, along with the Indian Dairy Association (Eastern UP chapter), organised a national conference on Thursday to commemorate the 102nd birth anniversary of the ‘milkman of India’, Dr Verghese Kurien. The theme of the conference was “Intensive integrated dairy development in eastern…