GDT 411: SMP overtakes WMP after four years
The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) Event 411, held on 1 September 2026, has delivered a more interesting signal than the headline 0.9% rise in the GDT Price Index suggests. The market has now recorded four...Read More
India's dairy decade is already written. Only policy can change the ending.
The milk is ours. The margin isn't. By 2035 nearly one litre in every three drawn anywhere on earth will be drawn in India, and the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook shows us capturing almost none of its...Read More
Label What We Add, Not What the Cow Gives
FSSAI cited Canada before the Supreme Court. It left behind everything Canada wrote to protect milk. Kuldeep Sharma, Chief Editor, DairyNews7x7 There is a halwai in Old Delhi whose family has made k...Read More
Global Dairy Top 20: M&A and Specialisation Reshape the Rankings
Global dairy is getting bigger—but the more important story is that it is becoming more specialised. The latest RaboResearch Global Dairy Top 20, released in August 2026, shows how mergers, acqu...Read More
Taste Technology: The Next Frontier Indian Dairy NPD Can't Afford to Ignore
A quiet but significant shift is underway in global dairy ingredient development, and it has almost nothing to do with new proteins, new cultures, or new processing equipment. It has to do with taste...Read More
Twelve Years Before Saptadhara, We Already Had the Blueprint as 5I
The EAC-PM's new call for rural economic clusters echoes a 5-I model — Identification, Inventorization, Integration, Institutionalization, Investment — proposed for Indian dairy back in 2014 When the...Read More
GDT 410: Powders rise, fats weaken again
The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, Event 410 held on 18 August 2026, has strengthened the recovery in dairy commodity prices, with the GDT Price Index rising 2.3% from the previous auction....Read More
One Unit's Fault, a Brand's Statewide Ban: Why That Doesn't Add Up
On 15 August 2026, the UP Food Safety and Drug Administration, under Commissioner Dr. Roshan Jacob, issued a revised order tightening enforcement against adulteration in milk and milk products — ghee,...Read More
The Great Paneer Panic: India's State Bans on Analogue Paneer, Explained
A look at the spreading bans on analogue paneer, cream, butter and ghee, what FSSAI's own rules actually say, and whether a one-year prohibition can really settle the question. A ban that is spreading...Read More
Global Dairy Prices Keep Sliding in July — But EU Spot Data Hint the Bottom Is Near
The global dairy market may be closer to a turning point than the latest FAO headline suggests. The FAO Dairy Price Index averaged 116.2 points in July 2026, declining 0.7% from June and falling a st...Read More
White Gold, Wasted Gold: Should India's Paneer Whey Fuel Cars Instead of Bodies?
A lab in Scotland just handed the global dairy industry a headache — and it's one India should be paying very close attention to. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University, working with the start-up Take...Read More
GDT 409: Powder Market Stabilises, Fat Prices Remain Under Pressure
The global dairy market appears to be entering a phase of consolidation rather than a sharp directional movement. The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) Event 409, held on 4 August 2026, indicate...Read More