FrieslandCampina to reshape top structure to improve performance
FrieslandCampina has announced its intention to reshape its top structure, aiming to boost business performance and profitability. The change follows the appointment of Jan Derck van Karnebeek as CEO in June. The business will be divided in seven business groups and will be led by an Executive Team. Starting in October, the new executive team…
Dairy industry navigates global market challenges
Dairy Australia’s September 2023 Situation and Outlook Report shows the industry is navigating a challenging global market, amidst strong farm gate milk prices and growth in retail value. The report said lower export prices were a result of weakened global demand for dairy products, particularly from China. Meanwhile, cost of living pressures continue to impact…
Milma’s 2023-24 budget anticipate ₹1.22 crore surplus
The annual general body meeting of the Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, known by its brand name Milma, has adopted a growth-oriented budget for 2023-24 pegging the revenue at ₹680.50 crore and expenditure at ₹679.28 crore, anticipating a surplus of ₹1.22 crore during the financial year. The AGM also adopted resolutions covering a wide range of key…
The silent saboteur: Unveiling the dark side of adulterated milk
The greatest agricultural product in India is dairy, which supports millions of farmers nationwide and accounts for 5 per cent of the country’s GDP. Interestingly, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, accounting for almost 23 per cent of the world’s total production. India also exports dairy products worth more than $200 million to other…
FSSAI begins milk & milk products’ survey across 766 districts
In all, 2,801 milk product samples from organised and unorganised sectors were collected from 542 districts across the country for the 2020 study. Image Courtesy: Unsplash. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has started a nationwide surveillance study on milk and milk products this month, in a bid to curb adulteration…
The History of Margarine Can Teach Us About Plant-Based Battles
In recent years, the dairy industry has worked hard to hinder formidable competition from plant-based foods. The industry lobbied for legislation that would prevent companies from calling their plant-based dairy alternatives “milk” for instance, and petitioned the FDA to define milk as the product of “hooved animals.” It also launched numerous marketing campaigns portraying plant-based milks as unnatural and unhealthy, while…
How animal milk and plant-based diverge in terms key nutrients
The decline in fresh milk in the Western world has in part been substituted by an increased consumption of plant-based beverages (PBB). These are often marketed as healthy and sustainable alternatives to milk and dairy foodstuff, although studies have suggested PBB to be of lower nutrient quality. The current study considered different brands of almond-,…
Veganism Isn’t the Answer to India’s Dairy Industry Politics
Yamini Narayanan’s Mother Cow, Mother India, published in 2023 by the Stanford University Press, and recently published in India by Navayana Publications, interrogates the politics of milk and dairying in India, the critical space it occupies as a sacred commodity in the religious imagination of Hinduism, and how the latter’s framing of cow as mother is…
In Arunachal, a parlour for yak milk -Ship of the Himalayas’.
A high-altitude village in Arunachal Pradesh, known for a 1962 war memorial, has added a first-of-its-kind parlour for milk from a bovine animal that’s often called ‘the ship of the Himalayas’. Travellers to and from Tawang invariably stop at the Nyukmadung War Memorial to pay homage to Indian soldiers who died fighting Chinese aggressors nearby…
G20 summit – What’s in it for farmers and dairying in India ?
The G20 summit held successfully on September 9-10th in New Delhi was a momentous occasion for our nation, as we had the privilege of hosting global leaders on our home soil. A government press release disclosed the total expenditure for this summit, amounting to a substantial Rs 4100 Crores. In comparison, Indonesia’s expenditure for the…