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The Product Processing Utilisation & Training Wing has been inaugurated to explore the immense opportunities in the camel product processing sector

Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala, inaugurates the ‘Camel Product Processing Utilisation & Training Wing’ at the ICAR centre in Bikaner. ICAR–Bikaner is a Premier Research Centre and an autonomous organisation under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Considering the importance of camel in the socio-economic development of arid and semi-arid zones, the Government of India established a Project Directorate on Camel at Bikaner in 1984, which was upgraded to National Research Centre on Camel (NRCC) in, 1995

The Centre has been identified as one of the important tourist places of Bikaner and is included in the tourist book. A camel museum is available to apprise them of the developmental and research aspects of the camel in the desert ecosystem. Every year thousands of Foreign and Indian tourists visit the centre.

The Product Processing Utilisation & Training Wing at the centre has been inaugurated by taking into consideration the immense opportunities that this sector holds.

Parshottam Rupala interacted with pastoralists and the pastoral community at the research centre. Further, the Minister also visited the institute’s facilities and interacted with the scientist and domain experts. Detailed discussions followed on the significance of the inception of this producinstitute’s facilities and interactions shall benefit the pastoral community.

While inaugurating the training wing, Parshottam Rupala said, ‘With the Animal Husbandry sector emerging as one of the diversified drivers of economic growth and rural income, there is a need for technological infusion, public investments, and policy reforms. Further, the Union Minister also said that this centre is beneficial not only to the pastoral communities in the state of Rajasthan but India as a whole. He added that the Ministry aims to work in tandem with the stakeholders for the continued growth of the livestock sector.

The Product Processing Utilisation & Training Wing

Agrotech, India, Supply Chain

Camel milk will now be available across the country

An MoU was signed between ICAR-National Research Centre on Camel, Bikaner and Pearl Lacto to transfer the innovative Camel Milk Powder Technology (CMP) technology. With the transfer of innovative technology of CMP, camel milk will now be available across the country.

Artabandhu Sahoo, Director, ICAR-NRCC and Mr Aman Dhill, Founder, Pearl Lacto Company signed the MoU on behalf of the respective organisations.

Sahoo exhorted that by using innovative techniques the functional properties present camel milk remains intact to a greater extent. He said ‘Camel Milk’, can be called ‘MEDICINAL-STOREHOUSE’ or SUPER-FOOD due to its therapeutic and nutraceutical properties. Sahoo stressed that the transfer of this non-thermal powder-making technology to Pearl Lacto Company, will expand access to needy consumers across the country. He also urged that camel rearers should fully adopt camel milk entrepreneurship and move forward in this direction so that the camel milk market can be converted into an organised food supply chain.

RK Sawal, Principal Scientist said that the processing methods of cow and buffalo milk cannot be directly used for processing camel milk as camel milk has different characteristics, therefore scientists of the centre are being made efforts to process camel milk by innovative methods and to make various quality products.

During this occasion, Aman Dhill said that the company is at present mainly engaged in the business of cow’s milk, the intention of the company is to bring ‘Camel Milk’ in the market so that the needy and common people can get its benefit. The company will make available the powder and its manufactured products through its parlours located in different cities across the country and through online channels, he added.

Camel milk will now be available across

Agro Universities, Agrotech, India, Live Stock, R&D

MoU will be helpful for improving camel production system through promotion of its utility in biomedical research. 

The ICAR-National Research Centre on Camel, Bikaner and the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaborative research & development and exchange of knowledge.  

Artabandhu Sahoo, Director, ICAR-NRCC and Captain Sridhar Warrier, Registrar, IISc signed the MoU on behalf of the respective organisations.

Artabandhu Sahoo briefed about the present association of NRCC, Bikaner and IISc, Bengaluru on research program aimed at safer and more effective anti-snake venom development and emphasised on future collaborative research and development initiatives on “Camel Immunology” and “Climate-Resilient Phenomena” with IISc, Bengaluru. He said the MoU will be helpful for improving camel production system through promotion of its utility in biomedical research. 

Captain Sridhar Warrier stressed upon establishing an Educational Link with NRCC for expanding the scope of collaboration. He reiterated that the research on various aspects of camels by NRCC and at the global level shows the uniqueness of this species. 

MoU will be helpful for improving camel

India, Sustainability

There’s tremendous therapeutic utility of Camel Milk including diabetes, TB, autism

A team of 95 Sanyasis, Acharyas and Brahmacharis of Patanjali Yogpeeth Haridwar recently visited the ICAR-National Research Centre on Camel. They were briefed on research activities undertaken by NRCC and were also apprised about different activities during their visit to Camel Farm. 

During the visit they interacted with Dr Artabandhu Sahoo, Director, NRCC, on therapeutic utility of camel milk in various human ailments like diabetes, tuberculosis and autism related disorders. The unique nutraceutical properties of camel milk and its hypoallergenic nature, role in immunity helps patients recover faster from illness and thus the ‘Ship of the Desert’ may also be referred as ‘Store-House of Medicine’. 

They were also appraised of different delicious value-added products developed from camel milk which can pave way for its outreach to other Indian states and fetch revenue to camel breeders.

Patanjali’s team representative Dr Parmarth Dev and representatives from different states endorsed their view to increase the number of camels to increase availability and acceptability of milk for human health, which would in-return, help camel owners and involved-chain of people to sustain their livelihood and enhance the usefulness of animal in the society.

There's tremendous therapeutic utility of Camel Milk