G R Chintala is new Chairman of NABARD
Sh G R Chintala is appointed as the new chairman of The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural development (NABARD). He took charge from Dr Harsh Bhanwala last week. He has been providing his servic...Read More
One stop Food Safety and Compliance System (FoSCoS ) to ber launched on June 1st by FSSAI
Long awaited IT enabled single point food regulatory and compliance system will be launched on June 1st. This system will be replacing the existing Food Licensing & Registration System (FLRS). The new...Read More
Maharashtra dairy sector could only achieve 50% of its procurement target
Maharashtra state was the first one to announce a milk procurement program to collect 10 lakh litres of milk at Rs 25 per liter from the farmer and creating its own buffer stock of SMP and butter. Th...Read More
Mr Arun Singhal IAS appointed as Chief executive Officer, FSSAI
Sh Arun Singhal , a senior bureaucrat has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effect...Read More
Covid-19 Fall in milk prices put pressure on dairy farmers in Maharashtra
Milk was sold at Rs 30 to 35 before the corona outbreak in Maharashtra state. After the lock down the demand of all milk and milk products plummeted and milk prices came down to Rs 20-22 per liter. A...Read More
Dairy Sector needs modernization of infrastructure to grow : Dr Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
As per Dr Bhanwala , chairperson NABARD, covid -19 may create opportunities for infrastructural reforms in dairy and agriculture sector. Current infrastructure in dairy is either not sufficient or not...Read More
Dairy farmers in Udaipur village near Guwahati are in bad shape due to Corona
A small cluster of dairy farmers around 13 kms from the district center are in very bad shape due to COVID-19. Their main target segment are from HORECA segment i.e Tea, sweets shop, hotels and resta...Read More
Punjab Dairy industry in crisis amid lockdown
There are 40 milk plants in the state with 30 of them run by private sector and 10 by the government under the aegis of Milkfed ( Punjab state milk federation). Nearly 80% of these [plants comes under...Read More
Indian railways have developed large capacity Rail milk tankers
Newly developed range of Rail milk tankers will be of 44600 Liters each with an increase of around 12% from the existing largest capacity rail tankers. This will make the rail transportation more cost...Read More
Covid-19 corollaries on the dairy sector by CRISIL
As per findings of CRISIL, closure of hotels, restaurants, canteens, catering etc has impacted the demand of milk and milk products. Products like ice creams , curd, buttermilk, lassi and flavored mil...Read More
DK Milk Union earmarked Rs 6 crore for cattle insurance scheme.
Dakshin Kannada Union (DK Union) will launch cattle insurance drive for its members from June 1( world milk day) . The union has earmarked Rs 6 Crores for the same. The Union will contribute 75% for t...Read More
Nandini is slapping milk holidays on Poor dairy farmers in Karnataka
In a village near Hoskote, named Chikka karoti, villagers dumped 4000 Liters of milk due to irrational behavior of Karnataka Milk Federation. The incident took place on Sunday May 24. State federation...Read More