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A roadmap for the revival of the Pradesh Cooperative Dairy Federation – popularly known as Parag Dairy, has also been prepared

Dr Meenesh Shah, Chairman National Dairy Development Board, has said that NDDB is committed to the development of the dairy sector in Uttar Pradesh, for which it is working with the Government of Uttar Pradesh. A roadmap for the revival of the Pradesh Cooperative Dairy Federation – popularly known as Parag Dairy has also been prepared, and discussions are on to bring its idle capacities to better utilisation.

“When we took over the Varanasi Milk Union’s 2 Lakh litre per day capacity dairy plant, just more than a year back, it was operating merely at 6,000 to 7,000 litres, which is now operating at more than one Lakh litre per day. This reinforces that by providing better services to milk producers and bringing about professionalism and efficiencies in operations, the dairy cooperatives can be revived in Uttar Pradesh. However, the revival of the dairy sector in Uttar Pradesh through cooperative strategies would require joint efforts of Dairy Cooperatives and Milk Producers’ Organisations.” Dr Shah said.

He was speaking to the journalists after inaugurating the mobile milk vending van operation for the sale of milk at the consumer doorsteps in Agra. Besides, he inaugurated one Bulk Milk Cooler and a Bio-gas plant in nearby villages, where he also distributed maize fodder seeds to dairy farmer members of Saahaj Milk Producer Company Limited to promote quality fodder.

Dr Shah said that “this has been possible with the negotiation with the agency by taking into account carbon credits earned from these biogas projects, thus enabling the supply of biogas plants to the farmers at a minimum rate. I am happy to inform you that we are now targeting to set up at least 50,000 biogas plants across India the milk farmers organisations as this will help the environment besides supplementing the income of the farmers.”

A roadmap for the revival of the

Dairy, Environment, India, Live Stock

A special session on Feed, Food and Waste was held under the chairmanship of Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on the third day of the International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit in Greater Noida. He drew the attention of the delegates from across India and abroad towards the challenges of Agriculture and Dairy sectors and spoke about working together on common issues. 

Mainly, there is a need to work on how to ensure adequate availability of fodder and what can be done towards this objective.

Stressing on ‘Waste to Wealth Management’ by all means, Tomar said that normally waste is not disposed properly, whether it is the crop stubble or the disposal of fruits and vegetable waste in homes, converting them into wealth is the need of the hour. 

Giving the example of the Decomposer which is Invented by the Pusa Institute, which increases the productivity of the farm and keeps fodder available for the cattle as well. Tomar says there is a need to work in this direction on a large scale.

There is also a need to pay attention on creating awareness about how cattle get food and said that cow dung is also a waste. The basic spirit behind all this is to benefit the farmers. 

A special session on Feed, Food and

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, Interaction

The need for developing the climate-smart and high-quality fodder varieties was highlighted by the Chief Guest, Dr DK Yadava, ICAR

The ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh has recently virtually organised the “Forage Scientists & Seed Producers’ Interface Meeting of Kharif Fodder Crops”.

The Chief Guest, Dr DK Yadava, ADG (Seeds), ICAR emphasised that the sensitisation and showcasing of the varieties will help in increasing the breeder seed indent of the new varieties. The need for developing the climate-smart and high-quality fodder varieties was highlighted by Dr Yadava.

Dr Amaresh Chandra, Director, ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh stressed on apprising the stakeholders about the new varieties and their potential/specialities to suit the various niches.

About 75 participants from ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi; State Agricultural Universities, NGOs, Private Companies, Regional Fodder Stations, DADF and NDDB, etc., attended the meeting.

The need for developing the climate-smart and high-quality