Cruising through the milk ocean with women at the helm
What began as a modest cooperative venture, within a span of just eight years, has turned into the world’s largest dairy firm fully owned by rural women —Shreeja Mahila Milk Producers Company Limited...Read More
First Parag ice-cream plant set up at Bareilly
The Uttar Pradesh government announced in a press release that Parag’s first ice cream plant was set up in Bareilly, and it displays Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s initiative to promote industries a...Read More
Making strides in dairy industry-Vishakha Dairy
Migration of farmers to urban areas and urbanisation have become major challenges for the dairy sector over the years, says S.V. Ramana, MD of Visakha Dairy Since its inception in 1977 as a small dai...Read More
Indian Railways to build boundary walls to prevent cattle being run over
Amid the recent cases of cattle being over run, the Indian Railways has set a target of building 1,000 km of boundary walls over the next six months in the worst-affected areas across its network, Rai...Read More
Pune dairies to conduct tests to rule out oxytocin traces in milk
Following the Tuesday arrest of six dairy farmers in Pune and the adjoining areas for injecting buffaloes with oxytocin to increase their milk-producing capacity, milk federations such as Katraj and S...Read More
Spiralling operational cost forces dairy farmers to give up ventures
Farmers who ventured into small-scale dairy farming to survive the pandemic-induced financial crisis are slowly withdrawing from the sector unable to generate a steady income owing to skyrocketing ope...Read More
KMF’s daily milk procurement dipped by 15.4 lakh litres since June
The Karnataka Milk Federation’s (KMF) move to increase consumer price of milk and curd comes at a time when milk producers in high milk-producing districts are in distress, while the federation is los...Read More
Kick off. Grabbing an Amul drink, don’t miss Ronaldo on pack
This edition of the FIFA World Cup will see Indian dairy consumers reach out for a health drink that is sure to give them a different kind of kick. India’s top dairy brand Amul has tied up with the P...Read More
India’s largest ice cream plant set up in Telangana by Hatsun Agro
Ice cream lovers across the country now have one big reason to head to Telangana. The State now has the country’s largest ice cream manufacturing unit, and that too, operated by one of the most popula...Read More
Heat stress impacts milk production in Maharashtra’s dairy cattle
Milk producers in Maharashtra are reporting reduced milk output due to heat stress in dairy cattle. They are forced to use resource-intensive methods, which are expensive, to prevent heat stress in c...Read More
Phyx44, India’s First Full-Stack Precision Fermentation Dairy Company
Phyx44 is well on its way to disrupting India’s dairy sector with its $1.2 million seed funding for its precision fermentation technology. The Bangalore-based Phyx44 says it’s using precision ferment...Read More
Two-fold rise in dairy exports melts butter stocks at home
The native market is dealing with an acute scarcity of butter and ghee, after a virtually two-fold enhance in dairy product exports final fiscal 12 months and better consumption throughout Diwali drai...Read More