Dairy Development

State of the Climate in Asia 2024

The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …

Go green, dairy industry told

The dairy industry lets out a significant amount of effluents into the environment in the form of waste water generated during the production of milk products. In an effort to create awareness to adopt

Despite excess output, milk prices to remain stable

Milk sale is picking up along with an increase in processing capacity Jayashree Bhosale & Madhvi Sally PUNE | CHANDIGARH MILK prices will not fall in winter, which is a flush season, primarily due to rising cost of feeding milch cattle. The October-March period is the flush season when milk …

Women SHGs take to dairy farming

Objectives: poverty alleviation, food security 311 SHGs selected for the project Project cost put at Rs.6.99 crore Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 311 women self-help groups across the State have been selected for an experimental cluster project in dairy farming launched by the Department of Animal Husbandry. The project Gramarasmi has …

Shifting of dairy farms: More queue up for land

JAIPUR: It is just a week to go for the November 30 Supreme Court deadline to shift the dairy farms from the municipal limit to the city outskirts. However, the JMC finds itself in a spot as it has to deal daily with new claimants to land by the so-called …

Tainted drinks in China again?

Authorities in central China are searching for a batch of dairy products containing high levels of melamine, the chemical that killed six babies and sickened 300,000 others in 2008, state media said. The government in Hubei province

Godrej talking to Israeli firms for dairy foray

Godrej Agrovet Ltd, the agri-business arm of leading conglomerate Godrej Ltd, has planned to enter the dairy farming business. It is in talks with at least two leading Israeli dairy farm technology providers. While Godrej Agrovet did not respond to an email query from Business Standard, representatives of the Israeli …

Hi-tech dairies changing fortunes

Sirsa: Gurmeet Kaur is semi-literate. A home-maker, she had no contribution to her family income till she joined a training programme organised by the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Department. Now, with 20 milch cattle purchased with the help of bank loan, she runs a hi-tech dairy in the village, …

AP Dairy Development Co-op enters packaged water business

The Andhra Pradesh Dairy Development Co-op Federation Ltd (APDDCF), which markets its products under its flagship

Govt considers proposed merger of Burdwan Dairy

Following its failure to privatise the state-owned dairies which are running at huge losses, the state animal resources development department is considering a proposal to merge the near defunct Burdwan Dairy with Mother Dairy. The state-owned dairies along with transport corporations draw huge subsidy from the state government. Initially, the …

Milk business opens new vistas of economic progress for women

The rural people, especially women, in Rewa division are becoming more inclined towards dairy development. This can be gauged by the fact that over six thousand women have formed 172 women's dairy cooperative societies in the division. These dairy societies collect milk and then sell it to Jabalpur Dairy Federation. …

National symposium on climate, livestock

Animal scientists from across the country would discuss next week strategy to fight the adverse impact of climate change on livestock. About 150 scientists from different ICAR institutes, state Agriculture Universities, state departments and NGO

Agro-human resources needed for sustainable development

ITANAGAR, Sept 29: To improve the economic status of the people, it is necessary to harness the available agricultural, forest, floriculture and human resources of the region by setting up industries to manufacture value- added items, said Finance Minister Setong Sena while inaugurating a conference on

15,000 mini kits distributed free for enhancing milk production

As a part of efforts of Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Dairy Federation for enhancing milk production, 15,000 mini kits are being distributed among milk producer farmers free of cost during rabi season under the Centre's mini kit testing programme. Production of green fodder will be possible in about 2,500 acres …

Nestle to set up first R&D centre in India

Invest 1,000 Crore On Manufacturing Units NESTLE India on Wednesday announced that its first research and development facility would be set up in the country to focus on

Undercover investigation The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies'

With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business.

Final warning: MCD gets a year to shift illegal dairies

Giving a last opportunity to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to comply with its orders, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed it to complete rehabilitation of all illegal dairies from urban areas of the city to Ghogha Dairy Colony within a year or face contempt of court charge. …

Milky way to curb poaching in Kaziranga

- Dairy project involving 74 villages hopes to keep jobless youths away from wildlife crime Jorhat, Sept. 13: A dairy project involving 74 villages dotting Kaziranga National Park is hoping to wean jobless youths away from poaching and end the milk drought in Upper Assam. As part of the joint …

Blockade hits poultry farming

Imphal, Sept. 12: Disruption of supply of feeds because of the ongoing economic blockade on Manipur

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