Minister agrees to pay Rs 1.5/Liter for converting milk to powder
State dairy development minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil on Wednesday assured the dairies and plant operators to grant Rs 1.5 per litre charge for converting excess milk into powder and butter. The...Read More
Draft policy proposes 3-tier Amul model for FPOs
Emulating the 3-tier Amul cooperative model, bringing in professionalism and financial assistance are some of the provisions incorporated in the draft policy on farmer producer organisation (FPO), whi...Read More
Kraft Heinz’s India GCC to increase headcount to 2000 by year’s end
Commenting that the Gujarat government had the best ITeS policy in the country today, she said, “The subsidies you get by setting up in a place like Ahmedabad are lucrative for organisations FMCG gian...Read More
Himachal Pradesh Invests Rs 201 Crore in Dhagwar Milk Processing Facility
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced on Wednesday that Rs 201 crore has been allocated for a milk processing plant in Dhagwar, Kangra district. The project is a collaborati...Read More
Dairy firm Heritage Foods looks East in line with pan-India ambition
Heritage Foods is spreading its footprint in the East in sync with its ambition to become a pan-Indian private dairy company. On Wednesday, the company announced its foray into West Bengal and over t...Read More
Royale Estate’s Mohali Industrial Economic Zone (MIEZ) gets Rs 150-cr dairy plant
Mohali Industrial Economic Zone (MIEZ) has announced that Gopal’s Sweets, the biggest dairy products brand in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, will set up a manufacturing unit there. The compa...Read More
Consumers pay more but dairy farmers get lesser in Karnataka ?
Milk procurement prices vary across different milk unions in Karnataka, despite the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) selling it at a uniform price across the state. Each of the 15 milk unions in the...Read More
Manchar: Dairy Farmers Demands ₹40 per Liter Milk Guarantee Price
Pune: " Milk powder is being imported, the market price of milk is increased by five rupees, but 12 per cent GST is imposed. Due to unaffordable milk prices, dairy farmers are facing difficulties...Read More
Verka in Chandigarh to serve sweetened milk to students under PM Poshan
The UT school education department is all set to serve sweetened milk once a week to the students. The sweetened milk (130 ML with 3% fat content in tetra pak cartons) will be served to students of 11...Read More
Akshayakalpa Organic to focus on Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad
The company has begun working with a cluster of farmers near Hyderabad, says co-founder and CEO Shashi Kumar Akshayakalpa Organic, India’s first certified organic dairy enterprise, will focus on Benga...Read More
Parag Milk Foods will focus on digital strategies: Akshali Shah
Parag Milk Foods established in 1992, claims to be the largest private dairy FMCG Company with a Pan India presence. It has manufacturing facilities with in-house technology located at Manchar in Maha...Read More
Plan to set up milk producers' dairy union in every district of India: Amit Shah
Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre has set a target to have a co-operative bank and a milk producers' union in each district of the country and also establish in the next...Read More