Govt dairy co-op sales have increased: Stalin
AIADMK’s interim general secretary and leader of the opposition Edappadi Palaniswami, in a series of tweets, wondered whether there is an attempt to deny people basic nutrition they were getting by consuming dairy products from Aavin. Chief minister M K Stalin said on Sunday that his government has revived Aavin, the state government cooperative which…
Give adequate compensation to LSD impacted farmers : Supriya Sule
Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule on Monday asked the government to come up with a centralised plan to revive the dairy economy which has been hit hard by the lumpy skin disease. The Baramati MP also sought comprehensive research to make vaccines for the disease so that its spread can be contained in the future….
Pune-based A2 dairy start-up Truly Desi curbs plastic waste
Pune generates an estimated 30,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day out of the use of milk and milk products of all the brands. In an effort to reduce this landfill and plastic waste, A2 dairy start-up Truly Desi has tied up with ProEarth, a social enterprise to enable its customers to send back their…
India ‘s exports of dairy products double to Rs 4,700 cr
India’s exports of dairy products have nearly doubled to Rs 4,700 crore this year compared to Rs 2,400 crore in 2021. This is a significant jump from Rs 1,200 crore in 2015. Data shows exports of skimmed milk powder drove the growth in outbound shipment. Sources said that India, the world’s largest producer of milk…
Aavin milk price hike aimed at promoting private players: Annamalai
The continued price hike by Aavin is to make the firm non-competitive in a bid to promote private players, said K. Annamalai, BJP State president. “The hike of ₹12 per litre for orange Aavin milk packets has resulted in sales dipping by 5,000 litre. People have moved to milk supplied by private companies. Then, the…
Lactalis buys out Fonterra-Nestlé dairy venture in Brazil
French dairy major Lactalis has acquired the joint-venture assets in Brazil owned by Fonterra and Nestlé. Lactalis, which already has a presence in the South American country, has struck a deal for Dairy Partners Americas (DPA) for BRL700m (US$131.5m). Fonterra holds a 51% stake in the venture, set up in 2003, and Nestlé owns 49%. The transaction is expected…
Aavin hikes its ghee price by ₹50 a litre, justifies decision
The price is either on a par with or lower than that of its competitors. The increase has been effected after the market and the prices of the competitors were studied, says an official. The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation has hiked the price of one litre jar of ghee by ₹50. On Friday,…
Amul to hike its ghee price by Rs 30 per kg
At present, a one kilogram pouch of Amul Ghee and Sagar Ghee in Ahmedabad is selling at Rs 530, while private brands such as Gowardhan is selling the same pouch at Rs 699. In a fortnight, a kilogram of Amul Ghee will cost Rs 30 more across India, after the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) took…
Source : India narrative 18th Dec 2022 by Mahua Venkatesh
Retail prices of packaged milk supplied by dairy cooperatives and Mother Dairy could see another round of hike soon, owing to the rise in costs of feed and other inputs. “As we have to hike procurement prices of milk from farmers, there could be one more round of increase in prices by cooperatives,” Meenesh C Shah, chairman, National Dairy…
US declares lab-grown meat safe to eat in ‘groundbreaking’ move
The US government has cleared the way for Americans to be able to eat lab-grown meat, after authorities deemed a meat product derived from animal cells to be safe for human consumption. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow a California company called Upside Foods to take living cells from chickens and then grow them…