Doubling the Dairy farmer’s income : A Gross Value add approach in dairy sector

This news is an excerpt from a recent strategy document by TV Mohandas Pai and Nisha Holla and is focused on livestock and dairy sector only. Studying trends of Gross value add in agriculture is very critical in developing strategy for agriculture sector. These trend lines actually help in developing strategies for doubling the farmer’s…
DAIRY NEWS Disinvestment in Metro Dairy Kolkata under ED’s Lense

Metro dairy was set up as India’s first dairy project under PPP mode. It was set up under a tripartite arrangement of West bengal Milk Producers Federations, NDDB and Keventer’s Agro. It was being set up as part-3 of the Operation Flood in 1996. Later, NDDB sold its stake to Keventer’s Agro. InAugust 2017 West…
Benchmarking Dairy farmer’s performance : The Stellapps way

Stellapps technologies , a Bengaluru based tech start up is revolutionising the way milk being procured in India. It provides end to end solutions with 100 % traceability upto the dairy farmer level in milk procurement by large players. Stellapps has been the first choice of companies like Amul, Hatsun, Milma, amongst others. Digitization of of…
Banas dairy will reward its employees with one month salary

The Banas dairy (AMUL) which is Asia’s biggest dairy has declared a reward for its 3500 employees . The dairy will pay one full month additional salary to all of them. The board of directors in its meeting on Saturday appreciated hard work of its employees during three months of the lockdown . Sh Shankar…
Profitability of dairy industry to reduce by 0.50-0.75% : Crisil report

Crisil reserach published their report on dairy sector. Sales of Value added products like ice cream, cheese, flavoured milk, curd and yoghurt to degrow 2-3% this fiscal.Value added products are more profitable than liquid milk . VAP account for 30% of the organised dairy sector’s revenue, This would reduce operating profitability by as much as 50-75 basis points…
Amul may surprise all of us with Amul Green Atta

It is rumored in the market that the blessings of over 3.6 millions farmers linked to Amul has gone beyond milk. Amul sandwich bread, Amul bun and Amul butter cookies have already forayed into the market. The latest news is about Amul launching wheat atta under its Amul green outlet initiative. Amul has garnered the support of…
Per capita availability of milk to cross 470 gms by 2023

Care ratings estimates milk production in India to reach 195 Mill MT in financial year 2020 with an increase over last year by 3.6%.It also estimates milk production to increase at about 4.8% CAGR to reach to a level of 226 Million MT by 2023. The milk consumption was down by 25-30% due to closure…
Amul Launches Ginger and Tulsi milk in Corona times

This is probably one of the most fertile time for launch of immunity boosting new product launches by the dairy industry in India. We have seen launch of Haldi milk by Amul in April and later by Mother dairy in June 2020 . Amul has launched two more variants namely Ginger milk and Tulsi milk. Priced at…
Mother Dairy and IBM : Showing strong partnership during Covid

Dairy is no more a milk business, COVID has converted it into a supply chain business. Mother dairy , one of the leading supplier of Milk, fruits and vegetables has always been a backbone of robust supply chain of these fresh products in Delhi and NCR . IBM runs and supports IT system of Mother…
Amul the real taste of India forces Twitter to step back

Amul topical is the pulse of India . In Management classes we use to learn on how our day started with multinational brands like Gillette, Colgate and Lux in personal care, citizen watches in the men’s closet but the moment an India reached his breakfast table, it was Amul butter all the way. Today there is…