Fintech for Women’s Financial Inclusion – Indian Dairy Sector
Dairy production in India is anchored in 80 million rural smallholder households with marginal livestock holdings. Household-based production reflects the traditional gendered division of labour within households. Male members control market transactions and cash flows, while women carry out the bulk of day-to-day production activities. While time and labour-intensive, women’s work in dairy farming is […]
Nestle to start milk procurement centre in Jammu: JKDFA
Nestle India will open its fresh milk procurement centre in Jammu by the end of this month. This was disclosed by office bearers of J&K Dairy Farming Association (JKDFA) while addressing a press conference, here today. They said that Amul, one of the largest milk processing company in India, was giving very low rates of milk […]
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 […]
Goa Dairy plans to procure cow milk from Karnataka
After a decade, Goa Dairy is contemplating procuring cow’s milk from Karnataka to satisfy its every day demand. Earlier than 2012, the dairy used to get milk from Maharashtra and Karnataka as native provide was not ample. Goa Dairy is dealing with the same state of affairs now. To date, the dairy obtained cow’s milk […]
Private players collects more milk in 8 of the top 12 States in India
Gujarat, Bihar and Karnataka are among the States where cooperative dairies collect more milk compared to private dairies Private players have a strong foothold in eight of the top 12 milk-producing States in the country that account for 88 per cent of the country’s milk production as of 2019-20, according to a study commissioned by […]
Dairy tech firm Stellapps diversifies into milk procurement
Stellaps Technologies, a digital solutions provider for dairy supply chain has diversified into milk procurement; and has started sourcing milk for large brands such as ITC and CavinKare. The company, which is building a milk-procurement-network also proposes to provide extension-services including agri-inputs such as feed; fertilisers and supplements to the dairy farmers. Over the past […]
Milk procurement up by 14% in Gujarat through the pandemic
Sustained-agricultural exercise-and-steady-milk-costs for dairy-farmers led to a 14% enhance-in-milk-procurement through the pandemic. Provisional knowledge from dairy sector sources exhibits that milk procurement in Gujarat, together with from different states, elevated from 215.65 lakh kg per day (LkgPD) in 2019-20 to 245.8 (LkgPD) in 2020-21. Data tabled in Parliament by the ministry of agriculture exhibits that […]
Amul becomes 8th largest dairy in the world as per IFCN Germany
As per the latest IFCN , Germany Amul becomes 8th largest dairy in the world handling 1.2% of global milk production. The IFCN Top 20 Milk Processors List provides validated, comparable data to better understand the largest dairy processors worldwide. In 2020, IFCN has extended its research about these processors and has created the world’s first dairy […]
Banas Dairy registers new milk procurement record
The Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (BDCMPUL) popularly known as Banas Dairy registered highest single day procurement on Friday. Asia’s largest milk co-operative procured 73.93 lakh litres per day (LLPD) milk – up against last year’s single day peak which was 73.71 LLPD. “This became possible because of the hard work of our […]
Amul begins milk procurement in Chittoor district
The collection of milk under the prestigious AP-Amul Milk Project will start in Chittoor district from Friday. To begin with the milk collection will be taken up in the select 50 villages each in Madanapalle and Ramasamudram mandals in the district which will be increased soon to 100 villages each in the two mandals. Also […]