Withdraw GST on milk products, say dairy farmers
Dairy farmers from States such as Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala held protests here on Wednesday, urging the Centre to revoke the decision to impose a 5% GST on dairy products and 18% on dairy machinery. The farmers, under the banner of the Dairy Farmers Federation of India (DFFI), sent a memorandum to the…
Traditional sweetmeats or Mithai not confectionery, to attract 5% GST
Traditional Indian sweets cannot be categorised as ‘confectionary’ and malai sweets too may be treated as sweetmeat for applicability of GST, according to the Madhya Pradesh Authority for Advance Ruling. Confectionery includes sugar boiled sweets, lozenges, chewing gum, chocolate and ice lollies or edible ices, cakes, pastries, caramels and fudges. These attract GST at the…
Pashudhan: Buying And Selling of Cattle Goes Online in Gujarat
All cattle buying and selling will go digital as 36 lakh dairy farmers of Gujarat will seek to do business through a cattle trading platform. With Amul’s new venture. A breeder in say, Junagadh, will be able to sell a newborn calf to a dairy farmer in Surat or Mehsana from the comfort of his…
Hatsun to increase milk collection in AP, Telangana and Maharashtra
Hatsun Agro Product Ltd.(HAP), a leading private sector dairy company in India with brands ‘Arokya’, ‘Hatsun’, ‘Arun Icecreams’, has announced its plans to expand procurement in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra. HAP has over 3,100 milk collection centres which benefit farmers across various villages in the three States. HAP plans to aggressively expand this network…
Full or whole fat milk consumption may lead to Cognitive decline
Results of recent research that were published in Molecular Nutrition &Food research suggest that there are no obvious potential links between consumption of the most popular dairy products and cognition. There may be an association however with a greater rate of cognitive decline over a 2 year period in older adults at high cardiovascular disease…
GST impact ‘marginal’ on dairy, agro items: Finance Minister
Finance Ministry has said that the net impact of GST on various dairy and agro products would be ‘marginal’ because of Input Tax Credit. It also acknowledged receiving petitions for re-consideration of GST on such items. “In case of pre-packaged and labelled form of such commodities, considering that the taxpayer will get input tax credit…
NDDB Launches ‘NDDB Mrida Ltd’ for Manure Management
On the occasion, Rupala said NDDB Mrida Ltd will open avenues of additional income to dairy farmers from sale of slurry/dung. The savings to the farmers by virtue of replacement of cooking fuel with biogas. Efforts are being made for better utilization of bovine dung but most are individual initiatives. Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of…
Assam: After fuel and LPG, milk set to get costlier in Guwahati
Greater Guwahati Go-Palak Sanstha, the leading organisation of dairy farmers in the city, on Monday announced that milk prices would be hiked by Rs four per litre from August 1, 2022. With the price hike, a litre of milk that was available at Rs 50 will now be sold at Rs 54. On the other…
Electric milk tanker a ‘world-first’? Fonterra
Renowned global dairy nutrition firm, Fonterra, has taken the wraps off what it regards as New Zealand’s first electric milk tanker. The vehicle is “about” the same size as a regular tanker, has a range of approximately 140kms on a full charge and takes approximately three hours to change. Furthermore, the company says the milk…
Source : Thats farming 25th July 2022 by Catherina Cunnane
IT IS OFTEN argued by politicians and agriculture industry members that Irish beef and dairy producers are more climate-friendly compared to other countries. The Taoiseach said this week that Ireland’s beef and dairy industry “produces in a much more carbon efficient way than other countries”. Two independent politicians went further to claim that Irish farmers…