The ultra-modern 5 LLPD capacity dairy plant with 20 MTPD powder plant has been set up with an outlay of Rs 250 cr
Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister, Odisha inaugurated the newly commissioned ultra-modern automated dairy plant of OMFED at Arilo, Cuttack for which technical consultancy has been provided by NDDB. Dr Arun Kumar Sahoo, Minister, Agriculture & FE, Fisheries & ARD, Higher Education, Govt of Odisha; Suresh Chandra Mahapatra, Chief Secretary, Govt of Odisha; Meenesh Shah, Chairman, NDDB; R Raghu Prasad, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Fisheries & ARD, Govt of Odisha; Pradeep Kumar Jena, Development Commissioner-cum-ACS & Administrator of OMFED and Dr Yeddula Vijay, Director, AH&VS, Govt of Odisha were present.
The ultra-modern 5 LLPD capacity dairy plant with 20 MTPD powder plant and other milk products like butter, ghee, flavoured milk, paneer etc. has come up with an outlay of about Rs 250 crore.
A state-of-the-art BSL3 laboratory has been set up by NDDB at Bhubaneswar for ICAR to conduct systematic epidemiological and molecular epidemiological studies on Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) with an outlay of about Rs 160 crore.
NDDB has completed IVF/ ETT Laboratory at CCBF Sunabeda and Chiplima to improve the productivity of milch animals. NDDB has also completed 150 MTPD Cattle Feed Plant at Khurda with an outlay of Rs 27 crore, which can produce up to 300 MTPD Cattle Feed with a 20-hour operation.
