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Company News, Dairy

By the end of FY 2022-23, HAP will be procuring cow milk from over 1 lakh farmers across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra.

 Hatsun Agro Product Ltd. (HAP), a leading private sector dairy company in India, has announced its procurement expansion plans in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra. HAP has over 3100 milk collection centres that benefits farmers across various villages in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra. HAP plans to aggressively expand this network of milk collection centres in these three states to effectively serve over 1 lakh farmers.

HAP plans to position further its milk collection centres at remote locations to ensure farmers have access to the facility and help them reap the real benefit of having access to such a facility in their own village thereby providing them with market access leading to prosperity to our rural sector.

Hatsun Agro Product Ltd procures 100 per cent of the milk directly from farmers and has heavily invested in procurement infrastructure over the years to effectively handle significant volume of milk.

HAP is India’s first dairy company to work on increasing farmer income by reducing cost of production. The company has been collaborating at the University level to commercialize its high-yielding, protein-rich hybrid Napier green fodder (kambu / bajra) such as Co-4 and Co-5.

Many of HAP’s farmers have halved the cost of feeding their cows by cultivating Co-4 and Co-5 hybrid fodder. By using cow dung as manure, brush-cutters to save harvesting labour, rain-guns to cut water consumption and milking machines, labour costs have reduced significantly.

Milk Procurement Ecosystem @ Hatsun Agro Product Ltd

  • Transparency with regard to farmers in all aspects-weighing, testing and billing in front of them
  • Eko Milk Analyser for testing Fat & SNF in-front of the farmers
  • Cashless payment through direct bank transfer to farmers even before Demonetisation. This system has single-handedly eliminated middlemen and loan sharks.
  • Direct payment has brought farmers to the mainstream banking system that were earlier financially excluded and made them credit worthy.
  • Electronic Weighing scale being used for accurate measurement of milk
  • All collection centres within 2 Kms of the farmer’s place to ensure milk is collected fresh from the source.
  • Timely collection
  • Fixed time for route vehicles monitored by a team

By the end of FY 2022-23, HAP

Company News, Dairy, Finance

 Company’s milk procurement has increased by a phenomenal 190 per cent over the last 12 years.

Amul cooperative movement celebrated its 75th anniversary by achieving group turnover of Rs. 61,000 crores, further consolidating its position as the largest food and FMCG brand in India. Needless to state, Amul, which is currently ranked as the 8th largest dairy organization in the world, added another Rs. 8000 crores to its group turnover in 2021-22, growing even faster than its 12-year compounded average growth rate, on the back of rapid post-pandemic recovery in out-of-home consumption and demand from restaurants, catering, travel and hospitality segment.

After the 48th Annual General Body Meeting of GCMMF (the organization that owns and markets products under brand Amul), held on 19th July 2022, Shamalbhai Patel, Chairman, GCMMF, informed that the cooperative achieved 18.46 per cent growth in turnover in 2021-22, which was even higher than 16 per cent CAGR in turnover over the last 12 years. The Chairman also emphasized the fact that “Over the last 12 years, our milk procurement has increased by a phenomenal 190 per cent. This impressive growth was a result of the high milk procurement price – which has increased by 143 per cent during this 12-year period – paid to our farmer-members”.

The Chairman also added that the highly remunerative price helped us retain farmers’ interest in milk production; and better returns from dairying have motivated them to enhance their investments in this sector

He further emphasized, “Our expansion plans are based on our milk procurement projections. Generally, every year there is capacity expansion through an investment of approximately Rs. 800 crores to Rs. 1,000 crores. We are also expanding in fresh products (milk, curd and buttermilk). A new dairy plant, with an investment of Rs 500 crores, will come up in Rajkot. Within two years, large dairy plants will also come up in Baghpat, near Delhi, Varanasi, Rohtak and Kolkata”.

The Vice-Chairman of GCMMF,  Valamji Humbal, stated that “ We recently built Asia’s biggest milk powder plant. We are also working on a technology which can store perishable Indian milk-based sweets and desserts for up to 45 days & beyond”.

R S Sodhi, Managing Director of GCMMF, informed, “Our milk-based beverages business grew by 36 per cent in value terms, despite the peak summer season of 2021 being impacted by the second wave of Covid. Our ice-cream business also saw a sharp revival with a more than 50 per cent value growth in 2022. Our flagship brand Amul Butter grew by 17%, while our Ghee business grew by more than 19 per cent, both in value terms. We achieved 17% value growth in Amul long life milk, 44% value growth in Amul Cream, 24 per cent value growth in Amul Dahi, 18% value growth in fresh Buttermilk and impressive 12% value growth in our largest product category, Amul fresh milk.”

 Company’s milk procurement has increased by a

AgroPolicy, Finance

The Minister suggested that KCC should be given to people from Maldhari (Ghumantu) Community, who do not stay in one place and have no collateral security to offer

Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala attended a meeting chaired by the Union Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman to review the progress in issuance of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) to poor farmers from Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries Sector with Banks & RRBs. 

Parshottam Rupala, in the meeting held on July 8, 2022, suggested a few measures for compliance by the Banks viz, all Banks must follow the Guidelines of KCC properly, the due acknowledgment for KCC application should be given to the applicants and a timeline decision on the application should be fixed. He added that the reasons for rejection should be clearly indicated so that field officers could rectify and re-submit the forms.

The Minister suggested that KCC should be given to people from Maldhari (Ghumantu) Community, who do not stay in one place and have no collateral security to offer. He further said that KCC should be given to poor fishermen who are unable to give any collateral. The Minister said that these efforts should aim at accelerating the efforts of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying in full saturation of KCC in the country.

The KCC facility will help fisheries and animal husbandry farmers to meet their short-term credit requirements of rearing of animals, poultry birds, fish, shrimp, other aquatic organisms and capture of fish.

Department of Fisheries is trying to explore the possibility of extending KCC to the fishermen who are not covered at present such as those who do not own/lease boat or assets etc. 

The Minister suggested that KCC should be

Animal Health

First India Animal Health Summit 2022 was held at NASC Complex, New Delhi on July 6, 2022

Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying said that there is need to strengthen the cooperative movement in the livestock sector. While inaugurating first India Animal Health Summit 2022, he called for greater use of Ayurveda for ensuring better animal health.

First India Animal Health Summit 2022 was held at NASC Complex, New Delhi on July 6, 2022, understanding the significance of animal health towards the broader objective of the country’s food and nutrition security, rural incomes and prosperity and overall economic development.

Rupala was the chief guest at the inaugural function of ‘India Animal Health Summit 2022’ organised by Indian Chamber of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) and the Agriculture Today Group. He said that by ensuring good animal health, veterinarians are playing a very significant role.

Speaking on the occasion, Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying said that animal health is a very major component of One Health and there is need to ensure even more respect for veterinarians in the community at large. He said that the department is taking initiatives to address animal pandemic preparedness.

The two-day event will host a plethora of panel discussions ranging from topics such as Animal Health policy initiatives to Business environment & investment opportunities in the Animal Health sector.

First India Animal Health Summit 2022 was held at NASC

Live Stock, People

This initiative by the Government to involve the private sector towards policy forming will go a long way for the growth of the animal husbandry sector in India

Rajiv Gandhi, Founder, CEO & Managing Director of Hester Biosciences has been nominated as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Animal Husbandry and Dairying Sector, constituted by the government of India.

This committee, chaired by Union Minister (FAHD) Parshottam Rupalaji, has been constituted to recommend, prescribe and advise policies relating to cattle & dairy development, feed and fodder, poultry, piggery, sheep, goat and animal health.

This initiative by the Government to involve the private sector towards policy forming will go a long way for the growth of the animal husbandry sector in India.

Hester Biosciences was trading at Rs 2,196.60 up by Rs 31.5 or 1.45 per cent from its previous closing of Rs 2,165.10 on the BSE.

This initiative by the Government to involve the

AgroPolicy, Dairy

Lays foundation stone for the newly established Dairy Plant at Ujjain

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated and dedicated several development works at Panchamrit Dairy, Godhra. Shah inaugurated the new building of PDC Bank head office, three mobile ATM vans, 30 cubic metres per hour capacity oxygen plant built-in 250 sqm, dedicated Panchamrit butter cold storage and dairy plant at Malegaon (Maharashtra) and laid the foundation stone for the newly established Dairy Plant at Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh). Several dignitaries including Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister Purushottam Rupala attended the programme.

Shah said, “Five programmes are going to strengthen the cooperative movement of three districts (Panchmahal, Malegaon and Ujjain). Today 1,598 milk markets of Panchmahal, Mahisagar and Dahod districts are before us as a strong union producing about 73 thousand litres of milk. 18 lakh litres of milk and a turnover of Rs 300 crores is a huge success.”

Lays foundation stone for the newly established

AgroPolicy, Agrotech, Dairy, Live Stock

To form joint liability groups to promote the production and marketing of milk and milk products

Kerala will undertake an integrated programme for the dairy farmers and will form joint liability groups to promote the production and marketing of milk and milk products and to take up commercial production of fodder.

J Chinchurani, Minister for Dairy Development, Kerala will inaugurate the initiative at Pathanamthitta on June 3. The minister is scheduled to inaugurate the distribution of identity cards and uniforms to employees of milk cooperatives in Kollam.

A hygienic milk collection room at the Valachira milk cooperative in Kottayam will be launched followed by a cattle feed godown at the Thamarakulam cooperative in Kottayam and a 50 KV solar power plant at the Muthalamada east cooperative besides a bailing unit at the Maniyilparambu cooperative, in Palakkad. A fodder farming initiative in the Ollukara block in Thrissur will also be launched.

To form joint liability groups to promote

Agro Universities, AgroPolicy, Dairy, Live Stock, Poultry

Stresses on the need of producing more food grains with better yields

Giriraj Singh, Union Minister of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj recently visited the ICAR-Research Complex for North-Eastern Hill Region, Umiam, Meghalaya.

Singh visited the institute’s piggery, poultry and dairy farms to witness the pig breed – Lumsniang developed by the Institute. The Union minister highlighted the inevitable challenges of food security in the coming years due to the exhaustive population pressure of the country. Apprising about the contributions of the Green Revolution in the country, Singh stressed on the need of producing more food grains with better yields. He regarded the holistic integrated approach as the need of the hour for bringing about any development in an aspirational District like Ri-Bhoi. Singh also urged the ICAR and Central Agricultural University, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences for working in collaboration keeping in mind the farmers’ needs first.

Earlier, welcoming the dignitaries, Dr SK Das, Director (Incharge), ICAR-Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam underlined the institute’s achievements and its mandates.

Stresses on the need of producing more

AgroPolicy, Dairy

IDF Dairy Innovation Awards will be held on September 12

International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit 2022, the most coveted event of the dairy sector, will be organised in India’s New Delhi-NCR from September 12-15, 2022 in which dairy stakeholders from all over the world would participate. This was informed at a curtain raiser event in New Delhi.

Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Dr Sanjeev Balyan expressed his delight over India hosting the World Dairy Summit after 48 years. Furthermore, Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, said the World Dairy Summit is the first physical summit post-Covid by the International Dairy Federation.

“We will get the benefit of the experience of the International Dairy Federation and the world leaders on dairy who will come to India and the country will benefit by learning from them what they do for the dairy sector and it will also be a great opportunity for India to showcase its achievement in the dairy sector,” added Shri Chaturvedi, who is also the Chairman of the IDF-Indian National Committee.

Piercristiano Brazzale, the President of the International Dairy Federation (IDF), “IDF cares about all the dairy chain and we give all science-based support to the dairy sector. The summit this year will witness the participation of technicians and experts from across the world.”

“I want to announce the new IDF Dairy Innovation Awards. The awards will be given on September 12 – the first day of the World Dairy Summit 2022. We will give the awards in 12 categories. You will find all the details on our website i.e. https://idfwds2022.com, and you can also register till the 1st of July,” he added.

Caroline Emond, Director General, IDF, said the World Dairy Summit will be a great opportunity for dairy farmers, leaders, experts, scientists, professionals and academics to connect and get inspired. “India’s success story will be shared with the world through the World Dairy Summit where we can see how dairy is an engine of development and women empowerment in India.”

Meenesh Shah, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board and the Member Secretary of the Indian National Committee of IDF, said the dairy sector is the most important sector to boost the rural economy of India as it provides livelihood opportunities to about eight crore farmers that is why World Dairy Summit is significant to the stakeholders in India.
Not only the farmers but even the landless farmers are linked with dairy. Milk is an important means of livelihood in our country, Shah said.

Shah, who is also the member secretary of the IDF Indian National Committee, informed that the theme for the summit is “livelihood and nutrition” as the farmers in our country derive a livelihood from animal husbandry and dairying activities.”

Shah mentioned, “After the inauguration on the first day of the World Dairy Summit, we will have a special session for the farmers as farmers are our focus area.”

IDF Dairy Innovation Awards will be held

AgroPolicy, Dairy, Live Stock

Purabi Cattle Feed Plant at Changsari was commissioned by the CM of Assam

Government of Assam recently signed an agreement with the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). The agreement will delegate the operational management of the East Assam Milk Producers’ Cooperative Union to the national dairy body.

The agreement was signed in presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during Northeast Dairy Cooperative Conclave 2022.

The Purabi Cattle Feed Plant at Changsari was commissioned by the Chief Minister. The cattle feed plant will supply concentrated, nutritious cattle feed to farmers of the state.

Purabi Cattle Feed Plant at Changsari was

Agro Universities, AgroPolicy, Agrotech, Dairy, Live Stock, Start ups

Dr Singh was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day International Conference on Coronaviruses organised by the Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST)

Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Earth Sciences, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Science and Technology, MoS PMO and Minister of State Ministry of Personnel and Public Grievances said that Kashmir has a huge startup potential in agriculture and dairy sectors which is largely unexplored.
He said, though covid caught us unaware, it made us realise our intrinsic potential and capacities.

He was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day International Conference on Coronaviruses organised by the Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) at its Shalimar Campus.

Dr Singh said diseases evolve with time and the whole of the medical fraternity was unprepared for a challenge of the magnitude posed by covid. He appreciated the efforts of all stakeholders for rising to the challenge despite the limitations they faced.

Dr Singh congratulated the authorities at SKUAST for holding this first-of-a-kind conference immediately after the end of the pandemic.
Dr Singh expressed happiness that the Department of Biotechnology had provided funding for some of the pioneering research during the pandemic and expressed hope that it would continue to do so in the future.

Commenting that the youth should look beyond government jobs as a source of livelihood, Dr Singh said that start-ups are the thing of the future and the youth should prepare themselves for a change in mindset. He said that India has around 70,000 start-ups now as compared to just a few hundred some years back.

Dr Singh said that the agriculture and dairy sectors have immense potential in a place like Kashmir and the youngsters should evaluate the opportunities that lay in front of them in these fields. He assured all possible help to the youth from the government in setting up employment generating units for themselves.

Dr Singh was speaking at the inauguration

Dairy, Live Stock

Dvara E-Dairy will provide Milky Mist farmers with technological solutions like the SSFA and cattle specific recommendations and DSI

Tamil Nadu based Milky Mist, one of the largest milk aggregators and a leading dairy brand in South India, has partnered with Dvara E-Dairy Solutions to provide new-age technology solutions to its over 60,000 dairy farmers across the 13 districts in Tamil Nadu. Milky Mist procures approximately 6 lakh litres of milk daily from these farmers to produce an array of dairy products. It is known to convert all the milk procured into value-added products.

Through this partnership, the company aims to augment the milk yield and production capacity of the farmers and improve their livelihood through the adoption of new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence that Dvara E-Dairy is pioneering.

Dvara E-Dairy will provide Milky Mist farmers with technological solutions like the Surabhi Score for Financial Access (SSFA) and cattle specific recommendations & Dvara Surabhi Index (DSI) to help them manage their cattle’s health and adopt scientific methods to improve their procurement volume and enhance their income from dairying.  

Commenting on this collaboration, Dr K Rathnam, CEO of Milky Mist, said, “The Artificial Intelligence (AI) based app developed by Dvara E-Dairy Solutions to monitor, assess and correct feeding practices of dairy cattle is going to be a game-changer for the Indian dairy industry, with positive consequences of impacting sustainable income to the milk producers and social upliftment. Milky Mist is happy to collaborate with Dvara E-Dairy Solutions to help small dairy farmers increase their income and scientifically manage dairy.”

Dvara E-Dairy will provide Milky Mist farmers

Acquaculture, AgroPolicy, Live Stock, Start ups

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Minister of state for Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying emphasised the importance of adopting the advanced breeding technologies and its implementation at the ground level

Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is organising awareness programme on entrepreneurship schemes and other beneficiary-oriented flagship programmes of the Department. It is being done through Common Service Centres network by holding 8000 village level camps across the country. The is being organised from April 25 to 28 April 2022. Each day one lakh farmers will be joining through Common Service Centres across the country. 

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Minister of state for Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying addressed the farmers connected recently through camps and informed that realigned National Livestock Mission (NLM) and Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) schemes now have a component of breeder farm entrepreneurs and fodder entrepreneurs. One lakh farmer from Northern Eastern region states, Bihar, Odisha West Bengal participated, NLM will help in creating rural entrepreneurship and help in creating better livelihood opportunity for unemployed youth and livestock farmers in the cattle, dairy, poultry, sheep, goat, piggery, feed and fodder sector paving the way towards Atmanirbhar Bharat. 

Secretary (DoF & DAHD I/c), Jatindra Nath Swain briefed the farmers about Pradhan Mantri Mantsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) and Fisheries & Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF). He added that flagship schemes of Department of Fisheries can be availed by fishers and fish farmers from every corner of the country. He also mentioned that, in order to create the forward and backward linkage for the produce available at the unorganised sector and for connecting it with organised sector, these entrepreneurship schemes of the Ministry would help in development of entrepreneurship. 

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Minister of state for

AgroPolicy, Dairy

Anand-based NCDFI is celebrating its Golden Jubilee and eMarket awards

Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation has bagged the active participation award from the Anand-based National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India (NCDFI) for the financial year 2021-22.

NCDFI is celebrating its Golden Jubilee and eMarket awards. The award ceremony was graced by the chief guest Amit Shah, Union Home Minister.

Anand-based NCDFI is celebrating its Golden Jubilee