Anonymous Petitioner Challenges Perfect Day’s Patents For Whey
Perfect Day, the leading producer of precision fermentation whey, has had its US patent challenged by an anonymous petitioner. The news of the patent challenge broke yesterday. While the request has not been made public on the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website, it is now visible through the online tool PatSnap, AgFunder News…
Godrej Agrovet engages EY to boost margins of its dairy business
Godrej Agrovet Ltd has engaged the services of consultant, EY, to advise its subsidiary, Creamline Dairy Products, on how best to boost margins by streamlining its supply chain through direct procurement of milk, among other things. Bhupendra Suri, CEO, Creamline Dairy Products, told businessline that EY will be working with the management to suggest ways to bring more…
How Science Saved A Cow Breed Known For Sweet Milk
Dangi is a cattle breed native to the hilly areas of Maharashtra’s Nashik and Ahmednagar districts. The khoya made from its milk is so sweet that a popular Marathi saying goes: “You can be only as sweet as rajur (the word for khoya in Ahmednagar).” Yet, the breed might have become extinct without the efforts…
IKEA Will Eliminate Dairy Products from Menus by 2030
According to IKEA, it serves more than 650 million customers each year across its restaurants, cafes, and bistros. Ditching dairy to be ‘people and planet positive’ The company’s new sustainability plan, called “People and Planet Positive,” is targeting carbon emissions and resource reductions across IKEA’s operations, including a focus on more plant-based food in its…
Drinking’ milk to stay key category for Australian dairy sector
The liquid ‘drinking’ milk market remains of key importance to Australia’s dairy sector – with improved domestic retail pricing and opportunities for further export growth – Rabobank says in a newly-released industry report. In Australia’s Drinking Milk Markets: from Loss Leader to Improving Performer, the specialist agribusiness bank says the liquid milk category – which…
Grass to Glass”: How Chitale Dairy Brings Agility to Milk Production
What is more essential than milk? As the world’s largest producer and consumer of dairy products, India accounts for more than a fifth of global milk yield, producing more than 200 million metric tons a year. This prodigious output depends on hundreds of millions of cows, 80 million farmers, and more than 700 commercial and…
Eying To Cash In The Booming Organic Market Via Cooperatives
With estimated global organic food market to be around Rs 10 lakh crore where India’s share is paltry 2.7 per cent, the Government is eying to harness the unlimited opportunities on the platter to boost income of farmers for which it has set up a national level cooperative society for organic products. The first-of-its-kind initiative…
Dulquer Salmaan campaigns for ‘Smoodh’ in South Indian markets
Parle Agro has launched Smoodh Fruit Smoothies under their dairy brand, Smoodh. Parle Agro has signed Dulquer Salmaan as the brand ambassador of ‘Smoodh’ for the southern markets of India. He has joined Varun Dhawan who is the face of the brand nationally. Dulquer Salmaan has made his debut for Smoodh in a TVC for…
Yogi’s budget has Rs 86.95 cr for reviving the existing milk unions
Tabling the UP Budget 2023-24 in the state legislative assembly, Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna on Wednesday proposed an allocation of Rs 100 crore for the financial strengthening of District Central Cooperative Banks. Besides, Rs 175 crore has been proposed for the advanced storage of chemical fertilizers. The loan worth of Rs 7,556…
Milk production surge continues in USA
On Wednesday afternoon, USDA released the most recent U.S. milk production report. Production continues to increase as the report stated that, “Milk production in the 24 major States during January totaled 18.5 billion pounds, up 1.5% from January 2022.” Production has now been up on a year-over-year basis for seven months in a row! The…