The key objective of this paper is to demonstrate what smallholders can do in the dairy sector given the right ecosystem. India’s story of the “white revolution” is a story that can inspire millions in smallholder economies. It has important lessons in terms of government policies that supported and encouraged …
The Centre has written to the Meghalaya government, along with other states, asking it to ensure smooth supply of food items in the state to contain the steep rise in prices. The exercise is part of a nationwide initiative to bring down food prices all over the country. Official sources …
NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday announced an extension of the ban on milk and milk products from China for another year. According to a notification from the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), the extension took effect on December 24 last. On June 24, the government had extended the ban for …
Prices of open milk being sold in the city are expected to rise as the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) proceeds with its plan to relocate dairies out of the city's municipal limits. Despite protest from owners, a JMC squad on Monday captured and relocated several bovine animals from various parts …
The three-day workshop for those involved in goat rearing organised by the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) concluded in Dehradun on Thursday. Local residents engaged in goat rearing participated in the workshop which was coordinator by senior social activist Jaipal Singh Chauhan. Himani Purohit convened the concluding session …
THE Union agriculture ministry has refused to lower standards for imported milk despite some coaxing by the Barack Obama administration during the US president’s recent visit to India. The Department of Animal Husbandry said its milk import norms would remain unchanged. The US dairy industry had for long been pushing …
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 …
Read this summary of the monitoring of pesticide residues in the food commodities conducted from April 2008 to March 2009 at national level by Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and the IARI. The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India in collaboration with Indian Agriculture …
The Madhya Pradesh Cooperative Milk Development Federation has decided to observe November 1, Foundation Day of the state, as Mass De-worming Day in the state with a view to improve milk production by the cooperative milk producing societies. The Federation has issued guidelines to its all five milk unions at …
Alternative strategy in the drive to achieve food security Ksheeraganga has a subsidy component of Rs.9 crore Plan to produce an additional 135 lakh litres of milk a year Thiruvananthapuram: Decades back, buffaloes ambling along the city roads used to be a regular sight. With reclamation of wetlands and fragmentation …
The revised draft of food safety and standards regulations 2010 released by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards Regulations, 2010.
Constant efforts are being undertaken to increase milk production in the state. The implementation of Acharya Vidyasagar Go-Samvardhan Yojana is being undertaken under the 11th Five-Year Plan on the recommendations of Rajya Samanya Nirdhan Varg Kalyan Ayog by five regional Dairy Federations. Under this scheme, two milch cows have been …
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. …
Sivasagar, Sept. 27: The Sivasagar forest department has taken up a plan to make Panidihing sanctuary, a hotspot for local and migratory birds, free of largescale cattle intrusion and also augment milk production in the district. The plan aims to free the sanctuary from all kinds of
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 …
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Jasdan (Rajkot): Given that the Gir cow is indigenous to Gujarat, local business should have been milking it to earn foreign exchange. But it seems far away Brazil is doing a better of this. The South American country today has around 50 lakh heads of this …
Jaipur. Of the 5,782 food samples collected by the health department till September 15 this year, 1095 have been confirmed of adulteration after lab tests. Adulteration has become a major health hazard for the public, as the samples tested positive mostly includes fast-moving eatables such as flour, spices, milk and …
C V SUKUMARAN I AM persuaded to conclude that all efforts by the authorities to end milk adulteration have come a cropper. When milkmen see milk and water side by side they irresistibly itch to mix them. They add water to the milk on the sly, yet have the temerity …
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.
