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Ban on slaughter Threat to Dairy

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n the onset of the declaration of recent ban on cow slaughter, at a thought one can conclude is the end of cows. Statistics reveal that from 1997 to 2012 the number of cows has increased from 103 million to 117 million. But the decline in numbers of bulls conveys a different story.

This is because modern mechanization has replaced the bullocks on the farms. Birth ratio of male cattle and cow should remain at 50-50 probability. Thus, sighting the above difference

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rid of the unproductive cows, the cows should be fed for the rest of their lives adding to the cost of the milk production. Land which can be used for agriculture will be forced to cultivate fodder for the unproductive cattle. If the ban is efficiently implemented all over the country the number of cattle heads by 2027 will rise to 360 to 400 million. This augmentation will put a tremendous strain on the economy.

With this skeptical view in mind, no one would like to flock cows. Ultimately ban on cow slaughter will result ban on nurturing cows. Even with the provision of gaushalas (cow-shed) by the government for the unproductive cows, the price effect will still prevail.

Because of cultural factor, farmer tends to keep buffalo for milk than keeping a cow. Keeping an unproductive cow for a farmer is very expensive, hence he leaves them at the outskirts to find their way into the nearby cities.

one can draw a conclusion that many bulls are either slaughtered or exported.

Dairy industry will be strongly affected by this ban on cow slaughter. If the owner cannot get

This stray entry poses a challenge to the civic and administration body. Without proper policies to look after these stray cattle, the only option left is slaughter house or smuggle them away to the neighboring countries for the same purpose.

Accumulation of these stray cattle will lead to

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45th DIC highlighted climate change and its effect on dairy industry

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he 45th Dairy Industry Conference and India International Dairy Expo (IIDE 2017), jointly organised by Indian Dairy Association and Koelnmesse YA Tradefair Pvt. Ltd; took place from 16th to 18th February 2017 at Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC), Mumbai witnessed many technical and commercial sessions, with several participants and exhibitors from across India and the worldwide.

Attended by over 1350 delegates from India and abroad, the confluence brought together participants from different streams of dairying, agriculture, food processing and allied industries.

The exhibition drew a record number of business visitors seeking technological solutions for their processing needs and challenges. 45th DIC was inaugurated by Dilip Rath, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). Shri Subhash Chandra Mandge, Chairman of National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India (NCDFI), Shri Sarangdhar Nirmal, Chairman and Managing

Director, Prabhat Dairy Ltd, Dr. A.K. Srivastava, Former Director & Vice Chancellor, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) and other dignitaries were in attendance for the mega event of the dairy industry.

Addressing the participants of 45th Dairy Industry Conference on climate change, Chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Dilip Rath said “The dairy sector is likely to be affected both directly and indirectly by climate change. While stress to animals caused by changes in the temperature-humidity index would directly affect milk production, indirect effects include feed and water availability being impacted by adverse climate events.” India is the largest milk producer accounting for about 18 per cent of the world’s milk production. As per research reports, the value of the Indian market for milk and its products are expected to grow at 15 per cent annually, he added.

President of Indian Dairy Association, Arun D. Narke said that “India is self-sufficient in milk

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and is ranked the world’s largest producer with an annual production of 156 million tonne (20152016). However, this milk production could go down by three million tonne over the next three years as the average temperatures rise, creating problems of water and availability of green and dry fodder for the cattle.

Chairman of Indian Dairy Association (West Zone), Arun D. Patil said that Maharashtra has already undergone three consecutive years of drought till this year, which is set to affect the entire agriculture sector, including dairy. Most of India’s water needs are met through monsoon rains that remained deficient for three years in a row, resulting in rising prices of fodder and increased cost of milk production. Further suggesting that the government must procure milk at a fixed price determined by the Centre as in the case of other agricultural commodities, like cotton or sugarcane, to enable the milk farmers to get a minimum support price.

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Council of Agricultural Research-National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR-NDRI), AK Srivastava said even if we can achieve an increase in shelf-life of milk by half an hour, it would lead to massive profits to the dairy sector. “The biggest challenge to the global dairy industry is expected between 2070-2090 when the temperatures are expected to rise between 2 degrees and 7 degrees.” He added that the Indian dairy sector faces huge shortage of skilled manpower with sound technical expertise in understanding the need for handling of milking cattle and related issues.

The conference welcomed the government's initiative to allocate Rs 8,000 crore for three years for the growth and development of the dairy industry. The three-day conference and exhibition attracted renowned experts and 200 exhibitors from India, the USA, the UK, Germany, China, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Thailand displaying their products, technologies, and services.

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Climate change may affect milk production by 3 MT per year by 2020

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ndustry experts said, world’s largest milk producer, India may see a loss of milk production by over 3 million tonnes (MT) per year by 2020 due to frequent climate change and it may also lead to a decline in per capita consumption.

The country’s milk production has been steadily increasing with 2015-16 recording an output of 160 MT, the impact of rising temperatures, especially on cross-bred cows will make the task of meeting domestic demand difficult and could eventually lead to a decline in per capita consumption, industry experts said at the 45th Dairy Industry Conference, organised by Indian Dairy Association (West Zone) at Mumbai.

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Chairman Dilip Rath said, “the dairy sector is likely to be affected both directly and indirectly by climate change.

While stress to animals caused by changes in temperature-humidity index would directly affect milk production, indirect effects include feed and water availability being impacted by adverse climate events.” Heat stress also impacts animal

reproduction adversely as levels of above the acceptable levels can impact conception rates.

Research indicates that stress from heat can cause decline in milk yield in the range of 10 to 30 per cent in first lactation and 5-20 per cent and second and third lactation and both the heat waves and cold waves can cause short to long term cumulative heat effect on milk production in cattle and buffaloes, he said.

“As climate change is a challenge that impacts all of us, our dairy sector must not only evolve adaptation strategies but also help in mitigation by contributing to reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector,” he added.

Milk is India’s single largest agricultural commodity in value terms surpassing even the combined value of the two principal cereal crops and has helped millions of rural households pursue livelihoods, Rath said, adding, “we need to proactively protect our milk producers from the adverse consequences of climate change.”

India is self-sufficient in milk and world’s largest milk producer accounting for about 18 per cent of the world’s milk production.

As per market research reports, the value of the Indian market for milk and milk products are expected to grow at 15 per cent annually, Rath said.

The three-day conference had 23 technical and commercial sessions wherein the scientists and industry experts presented their research and findings. Nearly 180 exhibitors from India, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luthuania, Malaysia, The Netherlands, UK, USA and Thailand showcased their products, technologies and services.

Improving milk quality and consumer awareness is a big challenge

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chreiber Dynamix Dairies Pvt. Ltd. (SDDPL) inaugurated a 250-crore infant nutrition ingredient plant at Baramati.

SDDPL, in which the US- based global dairy giant Schreiber Foods holds a majority stake, has invested over $100 million in the past decade in expanding its operations with facilities at Baramati, Fazilka and Kuppam.

The company, which contract manufactures valueadded products such as cheese, yogurt, juices, and powders for customers such as Abbott, Britannia, Coca-Cola, and Danone among others has an annual turnover of over $250 million.

Mike Haddad, President & CEO, Schreiber Foods, who inaugurated the new plant and dryer facility at Baramati, told BusinessLine in an e-mail interaction that improving milk quality and awareness of the consumer is the company's biggest challenge in India. Excerpts: How do you assess the Indian market? Any plans to further expand your procurement mechanism to other States?

The processed food market and organised dairy is at a nascent stage and looking at the demographics in India this is a growing market waiting to explode. We have set up a dairy in the South in Kuppam and are now setting up a procurement base. This will help us in expanding in the South.

Do you have any plans to use India as a sourcing base for the overseas market?

Our aim is to cater to the Indian markets.As and when the opportunity arises, we will export to other countries. We have a strong customer base outside India.

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Any plans to launch your own brands in the Indian market?

We are positioned as a customer brand company and will continue to do that.Currently, we have no plans to pursue our brands in the market.

How do you see the global demand-supply scenario in the dairy segment? Where are prices headed?

We are seeing some uptick in prices, which may continue for some time.

What are the challenges you see in the Indian market?

Milk quality and the quality consciousness of the Indian consumer is our biggest challenge. We need all the dairy players to improve quality and work towards improving milk quality.

What are your investment plans for the Indian market?

We invest in plants based on customer requirements.

Cost effectiveness and quality products are our strength.We will continue to respond to customer requirements whenever they arise.

Any plans to increase your stake in SDDPL? Currently, there are no such plans.

How is your non-dairy business (juice and beverage) scaling up in India?

We are growing 10-15 per cent in this business and we expect this growth to continue for the next few years.

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Rs 15,000 cr plan by Centre for Dairies to focus more on infant food products segment modernisation of milk plants Abott India for infant food and is currently in talks with other firms like Nestle. Managing Director of Schreiber Dynamix Amitabha Ray said, “The market for infant nutrition powder has started maturing now with an increasing population of working women.”

The increase in number of working women and growing awareness are driving demand for infant foods. Indian private dairy firms are gradually looking at expanding capacities to produce infant food to serve clients in business-to-business segment, as the market for infant food is witnessing a healthy growth. The primary factor for the boom in demand for infant food mainly includes the rise in number of working women across the country, apart from increasing awareness across the society to ensure that children get nutritious food.

Private dairies like Schreiber Dynamix and Prabhat Dairy have already set up dedicated production facilities to make infant food, while other dairies are looking to add production capacities in modular formats. Analyst with IMARC, Anand Ranjan said that India currently has about 125-150 million children within the age of four, thereby making it the largest market in Asia for milk-based infant food producers and allied industries.

Schreiber Dynamix recently inaugurated its Rs. 250 crore specialty ingredients plant for infant nutrition products. The company closed a deal with

Mumbai-based Parag Milk Foods also recently ventured into the nutrition foods market and plans to foray into infant nutrition as well. Chief Marketing Officer of Parag Milk Foods, Mahesh Israni said that “We are currently working on a plan to introduce infant nutrition as part of our mainstream dairy business, which also consists of four brands namely Gowardhan, Go, Pride of Cows and Topp Up.” French nutrition and dairy major Danone India launched its global flagship infant formula brand Aptamil and plans to launch 10 brands this year.

Managing Director of Danone India, Rodrigo Lima said that the company was looking at doubling its nutritional business in India by 2020 during which it would launch Neocate, prescribed for nutritional management of infants. The other products that Danone India is looking to introduce include a malt-based drink and a range of products for children with inborn errors of metabolism.

Ranjan added that “It is the high margins that are attracting these dairy giants to the infant food market, which is growing on the back of rapid urbanisation. The increasing population of working women is among the major factors.” As per IMARC, the approximate size of milk-based infant nutrition market was Rs 4,000 crore in 2016 and will touch nearly Rs. 7,000 crore by 2020, growing at the rate of around 10-15 per cent.

Dairy fund will attract investment opportunities and boost capacity

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he dairy sector is keen on the implementation of the Rs. 8,000-crore dairy development fund to be set up under NABARD. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, a Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund with an initial corpus of Rs. 2,000 crore quadrupling in three years would be used to enable expansion of milk processing capacity in the country.

The renewed focus on dairy segment is a major relief as there was no dedicated government programme for investment in the dairy sector since the Operation Flood implemented by the National Dairy Development Board between 1970 and 1994.

of Rs.30/litre, the investment has the potential to pump in over Rs. 49,000 crore annually in the rural economy.

Chairman of Parag Milk Foods, Devendra Shah said, the fund would play a key role in increasing the income level of the farmers’ and boost rural economy. However, the dairy sector was hoping for the government to assign industry status to milk products, thereby bringing milk and milk products to NIL under GST.

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ecretary in department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries, Devendra Chaudhary said. the Centre is marking out ambitious plans to modernise milk plants in the cooperative sector at an estimated cost of Rs 15,000 crore, and it is arranging from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The talks between JICA and agriculture and finance ministries are at an advanced stage and the deal is likely to materialise soon.

Reflecting the growth of the urban middle population, eating habits have been changing and there is growing emphasis on ‘healthy diets,’ according to a JICA report.

The demand for dairy products has an enormous potential to contribute to increasing farmers' income, and it has been rapidly increasing, the report further said. To sustain 6 per cent growth, improved technologies, capacity building, marketing, scientific livestock management, knowhow related to milk production and better arrangement of loans is necessary. The dairy sector will play a very important role in the government's

plan to help double farmers' income by 2022.

Chaudhary said there is an urgent need to modernise the cooperative sector. “Many plants have not been able to modernise after being set up. The government is also thinking of bringing out a milkmark, similar to woolmark, to protect the Indian milk. The acceptability of Indian milk abroad will further get a fillip through this initiative.”

Efforts are also on to declare India free from Foot&Mouth disease which will be done state-wise. The Centre has identified Telngana, Maharashtra, and Punjab in this regard. India has achieved 4.2 per cent average growth in milk output in the last decade, far exceeding the world average of 2.2 per cent.

During 2015-16, the growth was 6.7 per cent with an output of 15.5 crore tonnes. The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) aims to raise per capita availability of milk from 337 grams to 500 grams by 2021-22. Demand for milk and milk products is increasing and is likely to go up by 24 crore tonnes by 2025.

Dairy farmers seek minimum support price for milk

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airy farmers have urged the government to set a minimum support price (MSP) for milk.Last year when markets were abundantly supplied, cooperative and private dairies paid Rs 19-20 for a litre of milk to farmers.

This price resulted in a loss of Rs 2-5 a litre for farmers. Cooperatives and private dairies now pay Rs 25-30 for a litre of milk against a cost of production of Rs 20-25 a litre. Milk production has started falling with a gradual increase in temperature and farmers face an uncertain income.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 45th Dairy Industry Conference on climate,Chairman of Indian Dairy Association (west zone), Arun Patil said, “The government intervenes in pulses, onion and other commodities, then why not in dairy?

Dairy farmers borrow from banks for purchase of high-yielding cows and buffaloes. In case of a sharp fall in milk prices, farmers sell their animals.

Joint Managing Director of Prabhat Dairy, Vivek Nirmal said, setting up of the fund with NABARD in a phased manner will open investment opportunities in the sector and make it more organised. About 80 per cent of milk collected is from unorganised sector.

“The fund will help add milk processing capacities, increase milk production and distribution capacities, besides strengthening the rural economy and enhancing dairy farmers’ incomes,” he added.

A senior dairy company official said it is not clear whether the money would be used for investment through equity contribution or provide interest subvention against loans raised by dairy companies/promoters. Either way, it would encourage investment in new dairies.

An investment of Rs. 35 crore on an average is required to set up a milk processing unit with two lakh litres per day (Llpd). With the corpus of Rs. 8,000 crore, the industry can set up 450 Llpd capacity. Hence at an average procurement price

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When prices improve, they again borrow to buy animals. This cycle results in massive losses for farmers.”He added that the government should engage organisations like Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) for procuring additional milk to produce skimmed milk. Despite India being the largest producer of milk, its share in the world market stands at less than 1 per cent.

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Influx of fund to revive dairy sector and enhance milk output

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he proposal to set up Rs 2,000 crore special fund with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) this year to increase the level of processing and modernisation of existing dairy units will not entail any budgetary support, but it’s part of the Rs 1,87,223 crore to be infused into the agriculture and rural development sector this year.

NABARD Chairman, Harsh Kumar Bhanwala said “there could be a subsidy part, which the animal husbandry department of the Centre can decide later”. He said NABARD would raise the funds from the market and would manage the corpus.

Since only 20 per cent of the milk produced in the country is processed by the organised sector, there is a need to enhance the capacity as well as modernise existing units.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that “dairy is an important source of additional income for farmers.

Availability of milk processing facility and other infrastructure will benefit farmers through value-addition. Many milk processing units, set up under the Operation Flood programme have since become obsolete. A dairy processing and

infrastructure development fund would be set up in NABARD with a corpus of Rs 8,000 crore over 3 years. Initially, the fund will start with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore.”

Bhanwala said that, “Agricultural income can be made resilient only when we join crop and animal husbandry,” adding that development of dairy is critical for sustainability of agriculture. There are millions of examples where farmers have shown their ability to manage extreme weather and market whims by investing in dairy as an alternate mode of income, he added.

The dairy cooperative network in the country

includes 254 cooperative milk-processing units, 177 milk unions covering 346 districts and over 155,634 village-level societies. About 15.1 million farmers have been brought under the ambit of village level dairy corporative societies as of March 31, 2013. Still, out of disposal by producers about 80 per cent of milk is being collected and distributed by private /unorganised sector.

The allocation for dairy will allow the corpus to finance modernisation of milk processing units, encourage new bulk milk cooling units, improve milk production and productivity and promote clean milk production, modernisation of breeding facilities, Bhanwala said.

The Centre is in discussion with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to arrange Rs 15,000 crore funds for the cooperative sector milk plants to modernise units. Devendra Chaudhry stated that there is an urgent need for modernisation in the cooperative sector. Many of them have not been able to modernise after setting up the plants, while some of them have done.

The Best Desi Cattle Breed To Get Rs 5 Lakh Award

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armers and cowshed (gaushalas) that maintain the best herd of desi cows can now stand a chance to receive Rs 5 lakh cash award as the Narendra Modi government is putting a premium on native breeds of cattle to produce more milk. The Centre has asked all states to send in nominations of individual farmers, gaushalas or cow shelters, and breeders’ societies by March 31.

Thirty awards of Rs 5 lakh, Rs 3 lakh and Rs 1 lakh will be given out in November on National Milk Day. The government has blamed its predecessors for not investing in programmes to develop and conserve India’s own 39 recognised cow breeds that has resulted in 74 per cent of desi cows remaining uncovered by artificial insemination.

A major plan is on the cards to select 500 ‘high productive’ bulls and use advanced reproduction techniques with select indigenous cows to produce ‘7,000 super elite cows’ that in turn will help upgrade 5 million indigenous cattle each year. The Centre will start sending SMS through National Informatics Centre to 1 lakh officials across India to spread the message.

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On target are Indian cow breeds such as Sahiwal in Punjab, Rathi in Rajasthan, and Gir in Gujarat.

Some indigenous cow breeds are near extinction.

The Centre has come up with ‘Gopal Ratna’ and ‘Kamadhenu’ cash awards to reward and motivate individual farmers and trusts, gaushalas and nongovernmental organisations that maintain the best “true to breed” original cows, adopt scientific management techniques and report increase in milk production.

The government believes indigenous cows are more resilient to Indian climate and can handle thermal stress better than exotic crossbred ones.

The US, Brazil and Australia have imported India’s indigenous cows even as successive governments here ignored them.

Apart from the 40 recognised indigenous cow breeds in India, there are many non-descript cattle breeds completely out of the ambit of artificial insemination. “We plan to use select 2,000 bulls to produce 10 million upgraded cattle of such breeds every year through assistive reproduction.

This will be a big game changer,” said Devendra Chaudhary, the Secretary in department of animal husbandry, dairying, and fisheries.

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Tata fund in talks with Dodla Several small dairy farmers still Dairy; to acquire 23% stake not part of formal credit system

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ata Opportunities Fund, a private equity (PE) fund owned by the Tata group is in talks to buy a significant minority stake in Hyderabad-based Dodla Dairy Ltd, said two individuals who are aware of this latest development. The fund is in talks to acquire an about 23% stake held by US-based investment firm Proterra Investment Partners (formerly Black River Asset Management) in a deal worth Rs300 crore, they said on anonymity.

Black River Capital Partners (Food) Fund had acquired the stake in Dodla Dairy for Rs110 crore in 2012.Last year in May, Proterra had started discussions with PE firms to sell its stake in Dodla Dairy and appointed Edelweiss Financial Services to run the sale process.

Managing Director of Dodla Dairy, D. Sunil Reddy declined to comment. Emails sent to spokespersons for Proterra and Tata Opportunities Fund did not elicit any response. Dodla Dairy was founded in 1998 by first-generation entrepreneur Sunil Reddy of the Dodla family of Nellore in Andhra Pradesh.

Neev Fund, State Bank of India (SBI).A couple of initial public offerings (IPOs) floated by PE backed dairy firms have provided exits with good returns, making the sector attractive for more PE deals.

IDFC Alternatives and Motilal Oswal Private Equity (MOPE)-backed Parag Milk Foods raised around Rs750 crore through an IPO that was subscribed 1.82 times. IDFC and MOPE sold shares worth Rs307 crore through the IPO.In 2015, Rabo Equity Advisors-backed Prabhat Dairy Ltd went public in an IPO that saw the dairy company raise Rs362 crore.

In the years gone by, India has seen several inbound transactions in the dairy space, especially two transactions by French firm Lactalis. Last year Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy group, acquired the dairy business of Indore-based Anik Industries for Rs470 crore. In January 2014, Lactalis bought Carlyle Group-backed Tirumala Milk Products Pvt. Ltd for $270 million. The largest inbound acquisition in the Indian dairy segment.

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egardless of India being the world’s largest milk producer since so many years, there are several small dairy farmers in the country that continue to remain outside the formal credit system of commercial banks and financial institutions, a joint study the National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has stated.

The study ‘Formal versus Informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of Dairy value

The dairy sells more than 900,000 litres of milk and six tonnes of milk products per day. It procures, processes and sells milk. Its milk products include butter, ghee, paneer, curd, flavoured milk, doodh peda, ice cream and skimmed milk powder, according to the company website.

In 2015-16, Dodla Dairy posted a revenue of Rs1,182 crore, up 16% from Rs1,018 crore the previous year.Dodla Dairy has a strong presence in Africa and it entered in 2014 by acquiring a milk processing asset in Uganda that currently sells around 15,000 litres of milk daily. It also plans to enter the US, where a production base is to be set up, and expand into South-East Asia as a consumption market, according to company’s annual report.

As per the National Dairy Development Board, PE and strategic investment firms are keen to invest in Indian dairy firms to tap the rising demand for milk and milk products. Demand for milk is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5% to 200 million tonnes (mt) in 2022 from 138 mt in 2014.

“There is a significant potential to grow the dairy business considering the continuing formalization of the market from loose to packed and the strong growth prospects in value-added dairy segment,” said Shiva Mudgil, senior dairy analyst and vicepresident, food and agribusiness research and advisory at Rabobank.There is a scope to improve the value of the firm by investing in supplychain integration, expansion, consolidation and consumer brand creation which will keep up investors’ interest in this sector, Mudgil added.

Milk Mantra Dairy Pvt. Ltd, an East India-focused dairy firm, had raised undisclosed series-D funding led by Neev Fund, along with co-investment from existing investors Eight Roads Ventures and Aavishkaar. The country’s largest lender backs

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chains in India’ has stated that there is a considerable scope for commercial banks and other financial institutions to improve their outreach. “Though financial requirements of small dairy farmers are not great, commercial banks and other financial institutions often avoid financing them because of the excessive cost of lending relative to the size of the loan, and higher lending risks. Smallholder farmers have limited assets which are often less documented that makes it difficult for them to use these as collateral against loans,” the study noted.

It also acknowledged that in India, dairy has remained under-financed by the commercial banks and other financial institutions despite its significant potential to generate higher returns to land, labour, and capital, and on a continuous basis.

It said the share of livestock in total agricultural credit has hardly ever exceeded 5 per cent of the total annual loan disbursed while the sector has share of around 20 per cent in gross value of agricultural GDP.

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Nestle introduces milk beverage ‘Milo’

Mother Dairy sees growth opportunities in Eastern and Western India

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he Swiss food giant Nestle has embarked on an exercise to make its products healthier. Chairman & MD of Nestle India, Suresh Narayanan said that an exercise has already begun to reduce salt, sugar and trans fats from the company's portfolio.

The company said in a statement, “We are delighted to introduce MILO ready-to-drink, a cocoa-malt milk beverage crafted specially for growing children.” Narayanan said the company's Milo drink launched has 40 per cent less sugar than other comparable products. Nestle has also reduced sucrose in its baby food products. “We are working on fortification as well. The only thing which was stopping companies from doing that was the absence of a regulatory framework. But now with FSSAI setting up a panel to frame final regulations on food fortification, work has already started.”

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Nestle India Dairy - General Manager Arvind Bhandari said that “The Milo brand encourages participation in sports from an early stage in life.”

The drink will be available in major urban centers, as well as select e-commerce platforms.

Kwality in association with Bank of Baroda for Rs 4000 crore loan to farmers

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airy firm Kwality Ltd said, it has signed an agreement with Bank of Baroda for providing Rs. 4,000 crore loans to the Kwality’s one lakh farmers from whom the company obtains milk. Kwality said "it has signed an MoU with Bank of Baroda to disburse Rs 4,000 crore of loans to its one lakh farmers in initial phase out of its established network.”

Kwality Ltd, Nawal Sharma said, “This is a winwin situation for all the three stakeholders which are farmers, bank and company. This will help in increasing our direct sourcing of milk from farmers and faster rolling out of high-margin value added products thereby improving the profitability.”

Bank of Baroda would get a readily available customer base for the priority sector lending, adding that bank would also get operational support from the company in identification of farmers and payment management system.

Sharma said, “Farmers will get financial assistance at attractive terms with which they can create additional infrastructure leading to higher income. This will also promote digitisation among farmers.”

The company has a network of about 3.25 lakh across about 4,500 villages in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan which are amongst the largest milk producing states of India.

Kwality Ltd would cover the remaining farmers in subsequent phases in time. It said, “the funds would be available at preferential rate and shall be utilised primarily towards purchasing of milch animals, smartphone and two wheelers.”

The scheme is aimed at providing financial assistance to improve socio-economic lives of farmers and steer them towards digitisation.

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Farmers would get loans up to Rs 4 lakh at less than 9 per cent interest rates. “It would allow us to develop a robust engine to increase our procurement directly from farmers which currently contributes 22 per cent of our total milk handling capacity of 3.4 mn litres/day.” The company intends to increase direct procurement to over 50 per cent over the next 3-4 years.

Kwality plans to roll out 10-12 variants of high margin value-added products such as flavoured milk, paneer, cheese, cream in tetra packs, tablebutter, yoghurts, amongst others over next 12-18 months. It has six milk processing plants in north India.

Aadhar-based payment system launched by Mother Dairy

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other Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt Ltd introduced Aadhar enabled payment system in more than 1,000 milk booths and ‘Safal’ retail stores. This service would now be available in addition to the existing modes like E-wallets and SmartChange Cards. This initiative is to promote cash less transactions.The company said in a statement “The decision to introduce Aadhar Enabled Payment System was taken by the company officials on December 27, 2016 and was implemented in more than 1,000 Booths in record 3 days."The service was commissioned in association with CSC e-Governance Service India Ltd under the aegis of Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

other Dairy that manufactures, markets and sells milk, milk products and other edible products sees growth opportunities beyond Delhi NCR region. The wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) with around Rs 7,200 crore sales has chalked up a strategy called ‘purab-paschim’ to expand into new geographies, starting with Maharashtra.

Mother Dairy has purchased an old plant in Nagpur and shall spend about Rs 10-15 crore to revamp it.

Milk procurement facilities will be set up in the area that is estimated to cost around Rs 30 crore.

MD of Mother Dairy – S. Nagarajan said, “We are in talks with the Maharashtra government for a new plant in Bhiwandi that may require investment of around Rs 150 crore.”

Besides, the company is also looking to set up a

plant for cut fruits and vegetables in Jharkhand for Rs 80 crore that will help Mother Dairy tap into the Rs 1,100-crore frozen fruits and vegetables business.

Mother Dairy is also planning to revamp their Safal stores that currently sell fruits and vegetables.

With an expenditure of Rs 10-15 lakh per store, they want to bring in modern retail practices.

Safal operates around 300 stores in Delhi NCR, contributes around 10 per cent (Rs 750 crore) to its revenues, whereas milk (Rs 5,000 crore), edible oil (Rs 1,000 crore) and value-added dairy products (Rs 1,200 crore) make up rest of its portfolio. Mother Dairy is aiming to open 250-300 milk booths in these new territories.

NDDB: Dairy sector can milk scope in fortification of foods

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ational Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Chairman Dilip Rath said, fortification of foods can address nutritional value of millions, that provides a huge opportunity to the organised dairy sector to increase their market share. “The organised dairy sector is the only source for milk powder and condensed milk due to the requirement for specialised equipment. High nutritional deficiency disorders can be prevented with fortification of foods with Vitamin A and D, and it represents an opportunity for the organised sector to grow its market share.”

He said, focused and continuous research and development, keeping in mind the fast-changing consumer preferences, will also help the organised sector in increasing its market share. Similarly, development of longer shelf life dairy products, specialised dairy based nutraceuticals and wellness products, probiotics catering to different

classes of consumers and niche markets need can be undertaken by the dairy industry, especially cooperatives, to increase realisation.

Rath said milk is India’s single largest agricultural commodity in value terms and is more than the combined value of paddy and wheat. As per reports, the value of the Indian market for milk and milk products is expected to grow at 15 per cent annually. Of this, the contribution of milk products like cheese, paneer, fermented milk products, butter and ghee would be significant, representing both an opportunity and challenge to the dairy industry, he added.

Dairy cooperative network should adopt renewable energy, he said. “These renewable energy initiatives include use of concentrated solar thermal for pre-heating of water and solar powered milk collection systems.”

Indian packaging firms increase investment to meet dairy sector's packaging requirements

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o help increase shelf life and retain quality, Indian packaging firms that are catering to the dairy sector are stepping up investment towards meeting the novel packaging requirements for value-added products. The focus is mostly on maintaining the sterility of value-added products, apart from maintaining their taste and nutrition through aseptic and UHT (ultrahigh temperature) packaging, given the tropical conditions in the subcontinent.

Packaging firms, which offer some innovative solutions to help detect adulteration in dairy products, see nearly a fifth of growth in the business coming from value-added products and are now working on introducing near-field communication (NFC) tags.

A joint report by Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), deduced that proliferation of ecommerce, coupled with revolution in retail industry in India, is also ‘pushing the growth of the packaging sector’.

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Tropical conditions and inadequate refrigeration facilities in the subcontinent are also influencing the packaging firms to come up with innovative solutions to improve the shelf life of milk and value-added dairy products.

Some of the latest investments in India’s dairy packaging field to help do away with refrigeration and preservatives include Schreiber Dynamix’s Rs 100 crore aseptic packaging plant in collaboration with Tetra Pack and Uflex’s Rs 580 crore aseptic plant. While the Mahindra group introduced innovative poly pack for its Saboro brand of milk that turns blue on adulteration, Uflex launched a low-cost UHT poly pack to increase the shelf life of liquid milk to almost a month from two-three days now.

The demand for packaging solutions by the sector is increasing at around 20%, which is driven by the increasing awareness among consumers on product safety and growing demand or valueadded products.

13 Vol. 2, Issue 02 - April - May - 2017 A million new bank a/cs opened for dairy farmers

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hile digital transactions have seen a jump in several areas of commerce after the government announced demonetisation of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes on November 8, the organised dairy sector hasn’t been left behind. Milk farmers affiliated to both the state cooperatives and private companies have opened more than a million new bank accounts and have also received payments in them since November 10.

“In the last six weeks, we have opened 8 lakh new bank accounts of dairy farmers. Currently, more than 19 lakh farmers are getting paid for milk sold to the cooperatives through bank account,” R.S. Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation or Amul said.

About Rs.310 crore is now being transferred to farmers’ accounts by Amul on a weekly basis, almost double the level before demonetisation.

This apart, Rs.75 crore is now being transferred every 10th day to some 3 lakh milk producers by Chennai-based private dairy major Hatsun Agro Products, in a signal that e-payments are catching up among private players too.

Sodhi said Amul has asked banks to open branches in tribal areas of Gujarat so that all the remaining farmers could open bank accounts. Amul pays around Rs.450 crore every week to farmers, of which around 70% now have bank accounts.

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Budget to have multiplier effect on dairy industry The allocation of Rs 8000 crore for the growth and development of dairy industry will have a positive impact on the rural economy as well as on the dairy sector

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cotton or sugarcane, to enable the milk farmers get a minimum support price.

he Union Budget brought cheers for the dairy industry this year with its announcement to allocate Rs 8,000 crore for three years for the development of the sector.

For the first year, Rs 2,000 crore has been allocated.

This is the first time since the White Revolution that the government has focused on the dairy industry. The decision would enable India to produce 500,000 litres per day of additional milk with an estimated Rs 50,000 crore cash flow to the farmers' hand.

Challenges faced by dairy industry India is selfsufficient in milk and is ranked as the world's largest producer with an annual production of 156 million tonne in the year 2015-2016.

Indian farmers are adding around 10 million tonnes of milk annually with a compounded annual growth of around 6.5 per cent in the sector, largely from farmers owning an average of one or two milch cows, to make the White Revolution a success.

Other challenges include huge shortage of skilled manpower with sound technical expertise in understanding the need for handling of milking cattle and related issues.

However, there is the possibility that milk production could go down by three million tonne over the next three years as the average temperatures rise, creating problems of water and availability of green and dry fodder for the cattle.

India's water needs are met through monsoon rains, which remained deficient for three years in a row, resulting in rising prices of fodder and increased cost of milk production.

There is also a need for the government to procure milk at a fixed price determined by the Centre as in the case of other agricultural commodities like

Former Amul MD.B.M.Vyas starts

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he ex-managing director of Amul, B.M. Vyas, has set up his venture - Nutrisattva, which he has cofounded along with Shirish Upadhyay, an ex-senior vice-president of Parag Milk and nutritionist Dr Ravi Khimani.

Nutrisattva will target the Rs 1,500-crore protein supplement Indian market. Vyas, a dairy industry stalwart, who held the position of managing director for 17 years at the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that sells the Amul brand of milk and dairy products, was instrumental in growing the sales from a mere Rs 600 crore to Rs 8,800 crore during his tenure between 1994-2010.

He was responsible for the launch of 38 new products that include innovative and special dietary products like probiotic and sugar-free ice cream, and probiotic buttermilk for the first time in India. He was also instrumental in developing India's largest cold-chain network.

He is credited for steering GCMMF during the turbulent time of the post liberalisation of Indian dairy industry and making Amul, an FMCG company from a dairy company and transforming the organisation. He quit Amul in June 2010.

Nutrisattava is a protein innovation company focussed on developing natural protein-based nutrition for individuals across age groups. "The organised protein market in India is about Rs 1,500 crore and we are planning to capture a small pie of this segment," said Vyas, adding that the total diet supplement market is worth $2 billion in India.

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India accounts for 18 per cent of the global milk production, which is growing at around 6.5 per cent annually as compared to 4.7 per cent over the previous 10-year period.

Milk is India's single-largest agricultural commodity in value terms and is more than the combined value of paddy and wheat put together.

The per capita availability of milk has increased three-folds, from 112 gm per day in 1970-1971 to 337 gm per day in 2015-2016. The country's demand for milk is likely to increase by 190 million tonne by 2020 and to be able to meet it is a challenge with reducing farmlands and other issues. The government's announcement comes as a breath of fresh air for the struggling sector.

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Missing Link In India’s Progress In Dairying: Quality Of Raw Milk

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ome 30 years ago, the Government of India had formed a Committee to review the progress of Operation Flood pioneered by NDDB. Mr. Sham S. Chaudhry Known as Jha Committee, Quality Incharge(Retired) GCMMF, Anand

one of its respectable members, Dr. N. N.Dastur had pointed out that the QUALITY of milk was a concern.Fast forward to the year 2017. Nothing has changed very much since. If anything, it may have become worse.

Bacteria too numerous to count (TNTC)

Pooled raw milk received at most dairies in the country has a bacterial load of about 1 crore bacteria/ml (Reference: Study by Green Light Instruments, MOCON. Appended at the end).

Not counting the quality defects that this load leads to, the dairies had to jack up temperature for pasteurization from the normal 72-75C to 80-82 C to get an acceptable bacterial count of less than 30,000/ml in pasteurised milk to stay within the legal limits. This has increased the heating bill for the dairies.

Dr. V. Kurien, the architect of the White Revolution (that has enabled India to have a yearly milk production of 155 Million tons with a healthy 6.2 and 6.3 per cent growth clip in the last two years, while the world growth is stable at less than 2.5 per cent) managed to look after most of the Development requirements of India's dairy industry. Setting up of a bedrock of milk collection by way of Societies under Operation Flood, known as the Amul system in the entire country (that ensured milk procurement), formed the pivot. Modern Dairy Equipment became available as the years rolled. This includes energy efficient and versatile spray dryers, UHT milk, Ice cream, Cheese, Paneer, and other equipment and much else. As for marketing, GCMMF, KMF and other Federations of the country are shining examples.

Coming to the quality front, Dr. Kurien was quite aware of the needs. A friend who had come out of a meeting chaired by Dr. Kurien about Quality of Milk, told me that the Chief had pointed out,“So far we have sold muck, let's now sell milk” Alas, his dream remains unfulfilled!

It appears to me that the fault lies squarely with us dairymen. This relates to our inability to execute the prescribed procedure required for cleaning and sanitization of the equipment or pipe assembly -the FIRST tenet of proper milk handling.

In the 50's and 60's it was the CANS we failed to clean, in the 70's and 80's it was the TANKERS. Since the last few years, it is the BULK MILK COOLERS and associated accessories that we have failed to MAINTAIN with the result they may be contributing to the problem rather than solving it.

Alas, our poor cleaning and sanitising ability to MAINTAIN a dairy plant, chilling center or a Bulk Milk cooler has become the proverbial Achilles heel.

It is necessary that our dairies that operate to dairies under a proud brand name accept milk only of good quality. This necessitates screening out milk of questionable quality at the collection or processing points.

Unfortunately, our dairy managers seem to be hooked on to processing large volumes of milk which they can boast about. As per the Quality Guru Dr. W. E. Deming, this is NOT a good philosophy.

The GCMMF has deployed some 70 professionals, each with a Master’s degree in Dairy Technology, Chemistry or Microbiology at all points in the country where milk under Amul brand is being received or processed for the market.

Their job is to reject poor or questionable quality milk. This investment on the part of GCMMF is commendable, indeed.

GRAM POSITVE COCCI.

GRAM NEGATIVE SHORT RODS CONCLUSION Time has come to mend our ways of handling milk, beginning with clean milk production, and maintaining our Bulk Milk Coolers towards milk of world class quality.

Introduction A comparative evaluation study for Total Plate Count (TPC) versus the microbial ISO method was recently completed. The rapid microbial method of interest was the MOCON GreenLight microbial detection system. This evaluation was conducted with the valuable support of AMUL Dairy (Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, who arranged to supply the raw cow and buffalo milk for the testing.

The goal of the testing was to assess the ability of the GreenLight method to correlate to the reference method, in this case ISO4833:2013 (Total Viable Count) for the assessment of raw milk as received at AMUL Dairy.

Analysis of the results shows a reasonable correlation to the reference method for the GreenLight system of 0.7076. A subset of the data produced later in the study revealed correlation to the reference method of 0.975.

The possibilities for improvement and further work are listed in the later sections of this report.

Comparative Testing For the reference method, the laboratory obtained agar plates that conformed to the standard. The GreenLight system was received from MOCON, Inc. and installed in a temperature controlled area.

GreenLight is an oxygen sensing system that relies on a unique polymer sensor integrated into a test vial. Readings are made optically using the GreenLight model 930-2 reader by filling the 2.0mL test vial with a prepared sample and running a resident software program to observe oxygen depletion of aerobic organisms. GreenLight can provide TPC results ten or more times faster than the reference methods and requires less sample preparation.

Sampling and Transport The visiting tankers arriving at AMUL dairy

carried combined volumes of raw cow and buffalo milk with unknown mix ratios from day to day. Estimates of the ratio were not kept.

A sample volume of 25mL was taken into a sterile container and packed in a cold storage container with ice, then transported to the Hemetek lab.

Methods Summary protocol: 1. 10 mL of milk sample was diluted with 90 ml sterile Buffered Peptone Water (BPW) in sterile container.

2. Pipette 2.0 ml of resulting diluent into Green Light AP Check TM vial. a. Place AP Check vial into GreenLight system andrun at 35 C until results are displayed on the connected laptop computer.

3. Pipette 1.0ml of diluent onto prepared agar plate.

4. Dilute 1.0ml of diluent with 9mL of BPW and repeat to create a dilution set (6 dilutions). a. Plate serial dilutions.

5. Invert and incubate agar plates for 48 hours at 35 C Note: All plate counts were tested in duplicate.

Results 1. The combined data from all runs of GreenLight and plate count were used to develop a correlation curve of the format t=-m. (TPC) + T, where t= GreenLight time-to-result, m= the GreenLight gain, TPC= the reference plate count, T= the GreenLight offset. a. Several experimental curves were derived from subsets of the data to determine the best overall _t.

The most reliable (highest) correlation number was found in the later trials run from September 16-28.

This was probably due to increased condense in all stages of samples, transport, and testing process. b. The calibration curve was used to determine TPC values for GreeLight and produce different tables in comparison to the reference counts.

Presented here are the overall data from tests in September 2013.

2. A key addition to the data analysis is the inclusion of negative control data point to provide a data point corresponding to log) CFU/mL. 3. All data

This data is derived from the calibration equation as t=-0.6773 (log TPC) + 6.2032

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Conclusion: 1. The GreenLight system was observed to give oxygen depletion responses unaffected by variations in the milk matrix, such as time of day or type of animal, when prepared in a single dilution in buffered media (BPW).

2. All samples produced a defined time-to-result on the GreenLight system (averaging 1.6 hours) versus 72 hours’ time-to-result for the ISO reference method.

3. The overall sample statistics for all 64 samples were: a. The overall correlation for GreenLight to platecount was R²=0.7076

4. The statistics for reduced number of samples; SEP 16-28 were: a. The reduced data set of tests run at the later stages of the trial returned a much improved correlation factor of 0.975 and reduced variance compared to the reference method.

5. The sources of variability in the GreenLight data are likely caused by the differences from sample to sample of the type of milk (cow, buffalo) and the source site of the sample as well as the day and tanker number. Therefore, this study can be viewed as a broad reproducibility study of the method across many variables. By reducing the number of sample variables, the correlation factor will be increased such that in-plant repeatability of measurement can improve on existing technologies and methods.

Further Work 1.There is an expressed interest in the use of the GreenLight system to test raw milk in an environment with fewer resources compared to a food microbiological laboratory. a. GreenLight can test milk without the need for any additives or buffers but the respiration responses of the resident microflora appear, from other trials, to create more variability in results. b. To set up GreenLight to test with “neat” raw milk the calibrations tests would bererun and the resulting protocol adhered to rigidly in production testing. c. It is not necessary to precisely copy incubation or dilution parameters between GreenLight and the reference method. It is, however, important that the calibration protocols and the actual production test protocols are the same. d. The opportunity presents itself to run the agar plate count data (TPC) and GreenLight at a higher incubation such as 37°C rather than the ISO standard temperature of 30°C to test in realistic ambient conditions for India. e. The GreenLight incubation temperature can be programmed to control temperature above the ambient lab temperature but less than 40°C.

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Climate change on human health and diet

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Shweta Rastogi Dr.Chief Dietician Guru Nanak Hospital Mumbai

changes would ease pressure on land use and reduce GHG emissions.Changing diets may be more effective than technological mitigation options for avoiding climate change and may be essential to avoid negative environmental impacts such as major agricultural expansion and global warming of more than 2° C while ensuring access to safe and affordable food for an increasing global population.

of five women are undernourished. Anaemia is another major nutritional health problem in India, especially among women and children.Among children between the ages of 6 and 59 months, the great majority (70%) are anaemic. More than half of the women (55%) and one-fourth of the men are anaemic in India. Anaemia can result in maternal mortality, weakness, diminished physical and mental capacity, increased morbidity from infectious diseases, perinatal mortality, premature delivery, low birth weight, and (in children) impaired cognitive performance, motor development, and scholastic achievement. (Isdo et al,2011)

CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS QUALITY OF FOOD Climate change may affect price change through price and availability. Predicted increases in extreme weather events are likely to have negative impacts on the availability of foods. Increase in food prices are likely to lead to some consumers choosing lower cost food. If food prices rise then, healthier foods become more expensive and consumer may choose less healthy food.Of particular concern is the food with a high energy density (usually more processed foods and with high sugar and fat content)is often cheaper than its less energy dense counterparts and less affected by price rise.

CONCLUSION Monitoring climate change and health impact is an important task which requires public health strategies and improved surveillance. In tropical countries like India, limited information is available, both prospective and retrospective data, at a local or national level to assess climate variability and disease outcome. WHO’s recent report has estimated that the global disease burden due to climate change has caused spatial and temporal distribution to vector-borne diseases, heat related mortality, air pollution and waterborne diseases.

limate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, the IMPACT will be felt all around the world and not just in some distant future but in your lifetimes and those of our children.”

The Lancet, 2009

INTRODUCTION Climate change is one of the most important global environmental challenges of the present century. It is a significant and emerging threat to public health which affects public health in many ways. There are direct and indirect impacts, as well as those that occur immediately and those that occur over a longer period. The impact of climate change on health is well documented by the World Health Organization and other international organizations like Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC).The direct impact of weather on human health is mortality due to increased temperature, disasters resulting in flood, loss of life and infrastructure due to cyclones etc, impact on water and vector-borne diseases, malnutrition,and respiratory diseases.

IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH Recently, India reported an increase in the incidence of vector-borne diseases, decrease in crop production,more frequent extreme weather events which could be attributed to changing climate. Though India has contributed only 2 per cent of the total carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning over the last 100 years, still it is likely to experience greater effects from the extreme weather events.(Joon and Jaiswal, 2012) Vulnerable population includes elderly, children, pregnant ladies, urban populations, and slum.

The relationship between climate and health is evidenced by the increase in the visit of patients to clinics after severe heat, rain and cold. Variation in climate temperature over a period of 100 years in India has been reported as 0.5°C The IPCC has projected rise of about 4°C in temperature, increase or decrease in rainfall patterns and a rise in sea level up to 0.59 metres by the year 2100.

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Increase in global temperature affects water, food, air quality, infectious diseases, physical comforts, and human health. Research has estimated that climate change have caused 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses each year. According to a new WHO study, this is projected to increase to 250000 deaths per year worldwide by 2040 (Dutt and Chorsiya,2013).

Climate change occurs over decades or longer time scales. Until now, changes in the global climate have occurred naturally, across centuries or millennia, because of continental drift, various astronomical cycles, variations in solar energy output, and volcanic activity. Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that human actions are changing atmospheric composition, thereby causing global climate change.

CONCERN FOR INDIA

India is a large developing country, with the Great Himalayas, the world's third largest ice mass in the north, 7500 km long, and densely populated coastline in the south. Nearly 700 million of the one billion population living in rural areas directly depends on climate-sensitive sectors (agriculture, forests, and fisheries) and natural resources (such as water, biodiversity, mangroves, coastal zones, grasslands)for their subsistence and livelihoods.

Further, the adaptive capacity of dry land farmers, forest dwellers, fisher folks, and nomadic shepherds is very low. Climate change is likely to impact all the natural ecosystems as well as socioeconomic systems, as shown by the National Communications Report of India to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Majra and Gur, 2009).

IMPACT OF DIET AND FOOD ON ENVIRONMENT The choices that we make about the food we eat affect our health and have major ramifications for the state of the environment.The food system is responsible for more than a quarter of all green house gas (GHG) emissions of which up to 80 per cent are associated with livestock production.

The aggregate dietary decisions we make thus have a large influence on climate change. High consumption of red and processed meat and low consumption of fruits and vegetables are important diet related risk factors contributing to substantial early mortality in most regions while over a billion people are overweight or obese without targeted dietary changes.

The situation is expected to worsen as a growing and more wealthy global population adopts diets resulting in more GHG emissions and that increase the health burden from chronic, non communicable diseases (NCDs) associated with high body weight and unhealthy diets.

Recent analyses have highlighted the environmental benefits of reducing the fractions of animal-sourced foods in our diets and have also suggested that such dietary changes could lead to improved health. They have shown that reductions in meat consumption and other dietary

This reduces the nutritional quality of dietary intake of meal consumed by majority of people, lower the nutritional status of some groups and increase the risk of obesity.

Climate change will alter the geographical locations from which the food is sourced and such shifts may affect nutritional quality as food from varying parts of the world would then differ in nutrient composition like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and amino acid composition. The decreased nutrient content of commonly consumed food may affect the health of population at large.

HEALTH EFFECTS DUE TO FOOD INSECURITY Increasing temperatures and more variable rainfalls and loss of agricultural land due to flash floods are expected to reduce crop yields in many tropical developing regions, where food security is already a problem. Simulations using dynamic crop models indicate a decrease in the yield of crops as temperature increases in different parts of India.

This is likely to threaten the food security in the country where malnutrition is already an important public health problem. Malnutrition causes millions of deaths each year, from both a lack of sufficient nutrients to sustain life and a resulting vulnerability to infectious diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory illnesses.

In India, almost half of the children under age five and more than one-third of the adults are undernourished. In Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Orissa, more than two out

The process of climate change is gradual and detectable. There are many government and nongovernment organizations monitor the health effects in recent years. The impact of climate change over health and the risk factors are difficult to detect early health effect on climate change.

Research methods are required to established temperature-disease relationship between population in different geographical areas.

Remote sensing and environmental monitoring is particularly useful to catalogue variables such as air pollution and heat exposure (Dutt and Chorsiya,2012).

To address some of the predicted changes as well as those taking place in India in an effective manner, more emphasis is required on the following policies: • Strengthening health systems and service delivery mechanisms.

• Provision of drinking water and sanitation facility to all.

• Provision of funding for low income communities with poor sheltering and high exposure/risk to heat and cold waves.

• Educating people about climate-related diseases Some key changes to be brought.

• Encourage a healthy diet.

• Eating more plant foods with vegetables, fruits and grains will reduce risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and some types of cancer.

• Buy fresh, organic, and locally grown food.

• Consume less meat.

Promote healthy.

• Walk or cycle wherever possible.

• Use public transport.

Dr. Shweta Rastogi is a Chief Dietician at Guru Nanak Hospital & Author ‘Eat right to stay bright” & “Diet, Diabetes &You’ Source: 45th DIC: Mumbai

Emerson Continues To Invest In India Launches the Gurgaon Cold Chain Center To Address The Needs of North India’s Cold Chain Market

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ndia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and offers immense potential for the cold chain industry. The government has enabled growth by taking many steps in this direction promoting cold chain infrastructure by encouraging adoption of environmentally responsible and energy efficient technologies, while also enabling skill development to support the industry.

Emerson received overwhelming response from the key Industry stakeholders for its First Cold Chain Center located at Chakan, Pune.

Encouraged by this success Emerson opened its new Cold Chain Center at Gurgaon, to be close to its customers in North India.

This center provides expert project design services to end users, contractors, and consultants. From heat load calculations to customized refrigeration

solutions, Emerson’s team works to ensure that the cold storage project is optimally designed. These services cater to the wide range of cold storage facilities such as fresh produce collection centers, pack-houses, fruit processing, dairy, logistics warehouses and retail. The Gurgaon center also offers practical hands on training covering a wide range of topics along with live equipment, simulation, and solutions in action.

Speaking on this special occasion, Mr. Hakan Erdamar, President Asia and Middle East& Africa, for Emerson’s Commercial & Residential Solutions platform said, “Emerson has an unmatched array of products and solutions to support the Cold Chain Industry. Our value proposition of offering the best-in-class global technologies, customized locally for the India Cold Chain market, places us in a unique position to serve the industry in an Contd on Pg. 18

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he govt is doling out incentives to push digital modes of payments and bring in transparency in every field. Its latest move to take milk cooperatives cashless is also aimed at increasing banking penetration in the sector.

Dairy cooperatives maximising cashless payments will stand to win three quarterly awards of Rs 5 lakh each.

payout rose to as much as Rs.200 crore to 18.4 million farmers.

The Centre told the states in a letter that the aim of the move was to bring about “an overall change in the present system, bring about more transparency remove exploitation, reduce the discretionary mode of operation and thereby also reduce

system and people have been shifting back to cash.

When the government first started to push for cashless payments in this sector after the noteswap decision, it realised that banking penetration among dairy farmers was poor, especially the small and marginal ones.

For instance, only 41% of farmers selling to the pioneering Gujarat Cooperative.

The government wants to turn the milk cooperative system cashless, with awards to help make the churn smoother. More than Rs.120 crore is paid out everyday to close to 20 million farmers who sell milk to cooperatives -the foundation on which India's dairy revolution was built. That's about Rs. 44,000 crore or even more annually, making for a potentially significant boost for the cashless economy campaign.

“The dairy cooperative maximising cashless payments will stand to win three quarterly awards of Rs.5 lakh each,“ said Devendra Chaudhary, Secretary, Department of animal husbandry dairying and fisheries. “This will enable cooperatives to procure more milk and also help the farmers by getting the payment straight in their bank accounts.“ This follows the launch of the Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi Dhan Vyapari Yojana by the government to encourage consumers and merchants, respectively , to adopt digital payments with cash awards.

About 42.7 million litres of milk was procured daily by 174,000 coope ratives from 16 million milk producers in 2015-16, according to official data. The daily payment of about. Rs.120 crore was mostly in cash. In a ` recent month, the daily

Milk Marketing Federation, better known by the brand name Amul, had bank accounts till last October.

corruption.“ Farmers and cooperatives, however, won't be compelled to shift to the digital mode, said officials.

Payments through bank accounts amounted to Rs.344 crore to 2.8 million farmers in November, Chaudhary said. “Now in January 2017, payment through bank accounts has jumped to Rs.833 crore to 4.6 million farmers."

The move comes amid reports that the boom in digital transactions after the demonetisation announcement on November 8 last year was fading as more currency notes have entered the

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optimal manner. We are delighted to meaningfully contribute to the development of the Cold Chain segment in India” It is recognized that strong cold chain infrastructure leveraging highly energy efficient technologies and intelligent solutions will be vital to preserve food quality and minimize food wastage in India.

Raising awareness levels through training and ensuring strong lifecycle support will act as catalyst for scaling up the Cold Chain Infrastructure in the country.

The Centre then asked cooperatives to ensure that all dairy farmers open accounts by December 30.“The banking penetration among dairy farmers has gone up considerably now,“ Chaudhary said.

“We have pursued this on a weekly basis through a call centre and special meetings with cooperatives.

Now we are incentivising digital mode for payments made to the farmers."

To qualify for the Gokul Cashless Management Award, cheque payments won't be enough.

Payments by cooperatives will need to be either through net banking or digital transfers via the internet or through mobile apps.

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Speaking at the launch, Mr. Sridar Narayanswami, Vice President and Managing Director of India,Emerson’s Commercial & Residential Solutions platform, said, “North India is the largest region for Cold Chain with presence of key industry players across farm to fork. Several nodal agencies are based in this region. We are pleased to open this fully equipped facility to provide training, design services and technical support to our customers and partners.”

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Making dairying profitable at small farmers’ level

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The new dairy Shrirampur ventures, unlike cooperatives, started collecting milk by appointing an agent at the village level.

Now-a-days many cooperatives are following this practice too in the new area being covered by them. Even the new models of producers’ company too followed the same system with some amount of accountability on the collection agent. However, this competition turned out to be unhealthy. If an agent of company X refused to purchase milk because of poor quality, the agent from another competitor started accepting the same.And when such poor-quality milk was not accepted at the dairy dock due to poor fat or SNF content or due to adulteration, the agents started using adding SMP or vegetable fat and used some different tactics.

However, since last decade, most of the major reputed players in the dairy industry have made huge investments on testing and supervision and the payment for milk is being directly deposited in to the milk producer’s account.As a result the scenario is some what better.But this is not a permanent solution. The Manager of Milk Procurement and Quality assurance must keep them alert 24 x7.

Let’s examine why in the first place such a situation has arisen.

The milk producer is not happy with the purchase price paid by the cooperatives or the private Actual photographs of Nandgaon near Mount Abu.

players. Many places the agencies purchasing milk

join hands and deliberately keep the milk prices low. The money received by the milk producer suffices only to meet the feeding cost of the animal.

The main reasons for dairying to becom unviavle at producer's level are: 1. Very low productivity of Animals.

2. Shorter lactation length.

3. Long inter calving period.

For all the above conditions, poor feeding or low nutrition diet is the main cause as milk producers are not able to afford the high cost of Concentrates / Balanced diet.

It is observed that the farmers do not have cash to buy the cattle feed.Concentrate Feed item is normally traded with the sale of milk. As such once the animals stop giving milk, feeding of cattle feed or concentrate is also stopped. This practice affects the nutritional balance of the animal resulting in to delay heat which leads to Delayed Pregnancy and longer inter calving period. This also affects adversely on the milk production in the next cycle.

Over the years farmers have adopted to Cross breeding programme, getting their animals upgraded with foreign breeds like HF and Jersey.Many of our farmers do not have enough resources to provide proper nutrition, housing and environment required for the crossbred animals.

Besides, there are few agencies or organisations which impart training to the farmers for special care required to be taken for these exotic blood Site photographs of Nandgaon, near Mt. Abu. Actual photographs of Pathmeda Gaushala

animals.Thus,the crossbred animals do not perform to their optimum level at the farmer’s doorstep. Even after a several decades of 1st AI -performed, still majority area does not have reliable AI facility.

Pathmeda Model: I came to know about a Gaushala at Pathmeda in Rajasthan. The various activities undertaken there are described in detail below: About 20 years back a Gaushala was established at Pathmeda, Tehsil Sanchore, District Jalore, and Rajasthan by few Hindu saints. Over the years, the Gaushala has acquired the status of world’s largest Gaushala with more than one lakh Desi Kankrej breed cows. There is always huge fodder requirement, green/dry, for the animals.

Some 10 years back approximately 1200 Acres of land near Mt.Abu area of Rajasthan (60 kms from Pathmeda) was purchased/donated by Gau Bhakt of the area. The land was purchased to grow Fodder crops for feeding to the Gaushala animals.

The area is known as Nandgaon. Later in the year 2008, a small dairy unit was started where milk exclusively from Desi cow was to be collected and marketed.

The basic philosophy nurtured by the trustees and Donor of Gaushala is to save the Desi cow from going for slaughter. By simply shouting slogans ‘Save the Holy Cow’ or politicising the issue is not going to help to save the cow. At the same time, housing these unproductive animals in Gaushala at the mercy of the donors is also not the solution.

(At present the feeding cost alone is around Rs 30 Lakhs per day. One cannot be sure for how long these animals can be maintained exclusively on the donations received. Hence if the Desi cow is to be saved, then the only logical solution is that the animal be maintained at farmers’ door step and he/she should earn at least about Rs 35 to Rs 40 per cow per day. Over the years and many deliberations the present status at Pathmeda is achieved and the same is given below: At Pathmeda, one Lakh litre capacity Dairy plant is in operation. Annual average milk handling of the unit through ten chilling centre is one lakh litre per day. Through a team of supervisor, it is ensured that milk purchased is only from the Desi Cow. The USP of desi cow is being encashed while marketing the product. The pasteurised cow milk in poly pouches is sold atRs 50 / lit and Rs 65/lit in Ahmadabad and Mumbai/Delhi Market.The dairy manufactures Ghee and ‘Desi Ghee from Desi Cow Milk’ is currently sold at Rs700/lit.

The desi cow’s urine contains Minerals like Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Sodium, Manganese, Zinc, Copper, Chromium, Nickel, Selenium, Tellurium, Cadmium etc, also Sulphur and Potassium and Vitamins like A, B, C, D, E, and other trace minerals. The same is used by thousands of people in India. All of us are aware of the distinct advantage of urine of desi cow.

Even the milk from desi cow has A2 type protein and many major players of Dairy Industry has launched “A2 Milk”. Milk from desi cow is amrit - nectar. Few months back, scientist of Junagadh Agricultural University too claimed finding gold from the urine of desi cow. Products manufactured from the urine and milk of desi cow has USP of its own.

In the nearby premises of dairy, another company has put up a factory Go Mutra Ark production.

Here Desi cow’s urine is collected from Gaushala and farmers are brought to the factory by hired vehicle, then in plastic cans, urine is weighed, tested, and paid for in the same manner as done for milk. At present Gaushala and farmers are paid Rs 5/litre of urine. The unit has facility for distillation of 10,000 litres of urine.Later this Go Ark, as the distilled Urine is called, is used for manufacturing different kinds of medicines. Some quantity is used for manufacturing disinfectant like phenyl.

A unit to produce Bio Compost fertiliser from cow dung is in operation about 10 kms from the Dairy Unit.The dung is collected from the Gaushala and farmers. The company pays Rs1.50 per kg Actual photographs of cow urine distillation plant and phenyl unit.

of dung. This dung is then used for manufacture of Bio Compost and Phosphorous Rich Organic Manure (PROM).

Similarly, a plant has been put up to manufacture soft cardboard.The Gaushala has a 500 CuMBio Gas production unit. The slurry from this plant is used as a raw material for manufacturing mild/soft cardboard. Beside the slurry of gobar gas plant which provides the fibre, paperpulp and discarded hard card board are mixed to produce soft card board. The card board produced is converted as file folders, envelopes, stationary for office use, boxes for readymade clothes and sweet meat packing.

In short, the farmers get Rs 30 to 40 for desi cow urine, Actual photographs of Cardboard manufacturing unit

Rs 24 to Rs 27/litre milk and Rs10 to 15 for the dung. In near future production of Azolla as feed for the cows is planned.This would be sold to farmers at Rs.2 per kg. As all of you are aware Azolla can be used as alternate feed supplement for Cattle feed since it is very rich in protein and many minerals. This will drastically reduce the feeding cost of animals.

In short, it is a win win situation for all the stakeholders involved. The farmer is happy, and the manufacturer gets sufficient return on his investments. The consumers are getting distinct advantage of nutritive value of desi cow milk and ghee, the saints are happy since the desi cow is not sent to slaughter house and we as a scientist and technocrats fraternity are happy as desi cows are not found roaming on the city roads causing danger to the traffic and adding to the dirt and pollution.

This model can be replicated in other parts of the country. Milk Cooperatives and other private

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companies can start the activities as CSR activities.

Since the focus is on protecting desi cow, I would like call it as PROJECT HARI PRAN. (As per Hindu culture, God or Hari resides in the body of desi cow).

Some modalities suggested for Project Hari Pran: Say a group of 10 farmers from a village having 2 or 3 desi cows can be roped in. They can be trained to produce /Manufacture: • Compost / Vermi Compost fertiliser • Silage making in 200 to 1000 kg bags • Amrit Pani and / Or Amrit Khad ( Disinfectant and Fertiliser for Crop) • Non Medicinal Panch Gavya products useful as: • a. Home / Personal Care: Soap, Shampoo, Liquid Soap, Tooth Powder, Phenyl,Mosquito Coil, Utensil cleaner, Glass cleaner Toilet / Floor cleaneretc. OR b. Poojan material: Dhoop sticks, Samadhi, Havan material, Pure Ghee, Cow Urine, Ark, Lep etc Some other Activities suggested for the groups: Cultivation of Medicinal Plants, Establishing Nursery, Developing Organic farming or Wasteland etc. The activities can be initiated based on the demand in the operational area.

5 to 10 groups / villages can be clubbed, 20 such Villages in a Tehsil can be developed, and 8 to10 Tehsil in a District will cover a Desi Cow population of 30 to 50 thousand and benefit 10 to 20 thousand farm families.

At District level, one can monitor Quality Control for the product manufactured and assist the group by Value addition and coordinate Packing, Publicity, advertisement and marketing and other related activities. This will generate additional income and employment to small dairy holding families.Even the products manufactured will also have readymade markets from the farmers and villages involved in the activities.

The expenses involved would be in the range of Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000 with Capital investment ofRs 2 lakhs to 5 lakhs depending upon the activities and

scale of operations. However, monetary benefits to the farmer involved would be very high.

There is similar kind of venture in down south Kerala, where milk producers’ company has started manufacturing and selling of bio compost manure for their members. May be private dairy companies may try out this model as their CSR activities. Many of the Dairy companies have invested and sell mineral water and are doing good business. There are examples of Milk Cooperatives supplying tea leaves, salt, and sugar to their milk producers. then why not these items to help milk producers. At district level milk union or private dairies can provide services like quality control, packing and marketing.

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atest flood of emotions for cow protection have opened the gates of discussion for the future of cow milk industry. It is true that protection to cow will benefit the population of the holy animal. The ban on cow slaughter will affect the economics of the dairy industry. If the milk producer cannot get rid of an unproductive cow, she will have to feed it for the rest of her life. Since the unproductive cows will be as many Dr. J.V. Parekh as productive ones, the amount and cost of feed will double. This will increase the price of milk. In fact, milk price will increase even more as the demand for feed will double and its price will be pushed up. This will also divert land to fodder production and less of other agricultural commodities will be produced. Their prices will also go up. Culling perhaps is the only sustainable solution.

Nearly a year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled his dream of doubling farmer’s incomes by 2022. This year’s budget focuses on rural areas, infrastructure and poverty alleviation. The creation of a fund with a corpus of Rs.8,000 crore over three years for developing dairy processing capacities through the NABARD will enable milk co-operatives to create an additional 500 lakh of milk processing capacity. This is the first time such an amount has been allocated to the dairy sector under NABARD. This would mean rural income can be increased by Rs.50,000 crore per annum. A large number of milk processing units set up under the Operation Flood Programme have since become old and obsolete. However, the lack of a mention on coverage of private dairy players under the NABARD fund left them disheartened. Most of the new milk processing capacities in the few years have been done by private dairies No other agro-economic sector is as closely inter-related to climatic conditions and national resources as dairying and livestock. Although climate change is a global phenomenon, its negative impacts are more severely felt by developing countries like India which rely heavily on their natural resource base for sustenance. While stress to animals caused by changes in temperature-humidity index would directly affect milk production and animal reproduction, indirect effects include feed and water availability being impacted by adverse climate events. Our rural communities are greatly dependant on dairy farming – one of the most climate-sensitive economic sectors. Keeping this in mind the deliberations at the 45th Dairy Industry Conference rightly centered on “Climate Change and Dairying“ generating discussions that innovative approaches to the challenge.

The Farmer’s Sessions at the DIC’s have been acknowledged as one of the most effective platforms for milk producers to voice their concerns and seek meaningful solutions. The 45th DIC welcomed the four ladies who are role models of women empowerment of the dairy sector in our country.

As per market research reports, the value of the Indian market for milk and milk products is expected to grow at 15% annually of which the contribution of milk products like cheese, paneer, fermented milk products, butter and ghee would be significant which represents both an opportunity and challenge to our dairy industry. Our efforts are aimed at meeting this growing demand for milk mainly from domestic production to continue to maintain our self-sufficiency and food and nutritional security in a sustainably way – socially, economically and importantly environmentally.

We believe that development in dairy sector can be boosted through production system oriented planning, agro-ecological region based prioritization of dairy animal breeds and optimizing productivity, germ plasm improvement using cutting edge breeding and reproduction technologies, improvement of feed and fodder availability by strategic planning, developments of efficient and innovative methods for diagnosis of livestock diseases and early warning system and eliminating middle men between producers to consumers and enhancing processing and value addition.

Shri Dilip Rath- Chairman NDDB

By choosing the theme of “Climate Change and Dairying”, I am happy to note that IDA has chosen to focus our attention on one of the most difficult long term challenges for the entire dairy sector, globally and for our country.

I hope to use this opportunity to focus on the issues related to climate change and dairying that we need to be aware of and what we are doing to face this challenge.

Contribution of Livestock In India, animals are a source of nutrients-rich food products, draught power, organic manure, domestic fuel, hides & skin. They are also regular source of cash income and an asset, which can act as an insurance against income shocks of crop failure and natural calamities. Livestock role has nevertheless been declining for non-food functions and ‘draught power’ due to mechanization of agricultural operations and increased usage of chemical fertilizers in place of manure from dung.

On the other hand, their importance as a source of quality food has increased due to growth in

income, greater urbanization, changing lifestyles, increasing population of women in workplace, improvements in transportation and storage practices and rise of supermarkets especially in cities and towns.

India’s dairy sector India’s dairy sector is unique in several respects.

There is synergy between agriculture and dairy.

The growth in agriculture and allied sector was 2.6 per cent during last two years whereas milk production has been growing at about 6.3 per cent during the same period.

The dairy sector, one of the major components of agriculture and allied sectors, contributes around 20 per cent of value of output.It was mentioned in the budget that agriculture and allied sector is expected to grow at 4.1 per cent in 2017-18. In order to achieve this growth, the contribution from dairying also needs to be enhanced in proportion to the proposed allocation for the sector and hence the increased allocation for dairy sector is required.

India is self-sufficient in milk and world’s largest milk producer with about 155 million tones of milk production in 2015-16 accounting for about

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18 per cent of the world’s milk production. Milk production is growingat about 6.5 per cent annually for the last 2 years as against 4.7 per cent over the earlier 10-year period. Per capita availability of milk has increased three folds from 112gms/ day in 1970-71 to 337 grams/day in 2015-2016.

India’s single largest agricultural commodity in value terms and is more than the combined value of paddy and wheat put together. In addition, the allocation for dairy development under the head “White Revolution” has increased by about 25 per cent to about Rs. 1,634 crore as compared to last year, which includes schemes like National Dairy Plan, Dairy Entrepreneurship Development, Rashtriya Gokul Mission etc.

There are primarily three contributing factors that have led to the remarkable growth of Indian dairy sector taking the country from a period of deficit 4-5 decades ago to one of self-sufficiency now.

First is the steady growth inagricultural production which made it possible to make available adequate feed and fodder to the animals. Second is the cross-breeding strategy which ensured retention of the climate resilient traits of Indian native breeds.

And above all, last but not the least is the powerful role played by farmers owned and controlled institutions which provided market access to millions of small holders.

Dairying in India is more about livelihoods to millions of small holders than simply a small business, due to a stable cash flow as compared to crop cultivation and its contribution towards nutritional security for families owning milch animals.Milk producing households are predominantly small farmers with less than 2ha of land and 1 to 2 animals.Ownership of dairy animals is more evenly distributed in India as compared to operational land holdings.India’s model of milk production is based on feeding crops residues and agricultural byproducts and using family labour to add values to resources which otherwise have limited alternative economic value.

India’s dairy production system is more efficient in terms of protein conversion since the ratio of animal protein output produced per unit of human edible protein is more than developed dairying countries.Due to number of factors like growing population,rising incomes,increasing urbanization,predominance of lactovegetarian dietary pattern, demand for milk and milk products is steadily rising in the country. By 2050, India would become the world’s most populous country with about 1.7 billion and about 600 million in middle income class.

As per market research reports, the value of the Indian market for milk and milk products is expected to grow at15 per cent annually of which the contribution of milk products like cheese, paneer, fermented milk products,butter and ghee would be significant that represents both an opportunity and challenge to the dairy industry.

The growing demand for milk mainly for domestic production will continue and self-sufficiency and food & nutritional security must be maintained in a substantial way-socially,economically, and environmentally.

Climate patterns and natural resources Climate patterns and resource endowments have significant implications for agriculture and livestock since parameters such as temperature, humidity, rainfall affect water and other resources, thereby agriculture and livestock.India has a variety of climate regimes and regional & local weather conditions due to its geographical spread.

While the northern region of the country have alternating seasons of severe summer and cold winter, the coastal regions of the country receive

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Chairman NDDB on 45th Dairy Industry Conference of climate change. Mitigation through substantial emissions reductions can help limit warming to below 2C relative to pre-industrial levels.

The dairy sector is likely to be affected both directly and indirectly by climate change. While stress to animals caused by changes in temperature humidity index would directly affect milk production and animal reproduction, indirect effects include feed and water availability being impacted by adverse climate events. rains and have nearly uniform warmth through the year.

For rainfall, India is entirely dependent on the monsoons with the South-west in summer accounting for nearly 75 per cent of India’s annual rainfall and the North-east monsoon in winter months bringing rain mainly to the southeast parts of the country. There is however variation and unevenness across season and geographical areas as well as frequent departure from normal. Water resources, agriculture, power generation and ecosystems of the country are affected by variation in the onset, withdrawal and amount of rainfall.

India has significant variations in temperature across the country, with severe winter in the North due to influence of continental winds and moderate temperature as one move towards the South.

There is also a long term increase in the annual temperature. Indian Meteorological Department’s data indicates that rate of increase in mean, maximum and minimum temperatures was about 0.2C per decade during the period 1981-2010 is higher than the trends for the entire period 19012010.

Of India’s total annual water resources of about 4,000 billion cubic meters (BCM), only 1,123 BCM is utilizable. Of this, 61 per cent is available as surface water resource and the rest 39 per cent as ground water resource. Due to imbalance in volume of water extraction and replenishment rate of groundwater, water table is being rapidly lowered. This ultimately is leading to the consumption of more energy for pumping out the water from deeper water tables.

India’s land use pattern indicates that while approximately 46 per cent of the area is cultivated, about 24 per cent is under forests/tree cover and the remaining 30 per cent is not available for cultivation or is fallow. However, the Indian sub-continent is exposed to natural catastrophes with nearly 59 per cent of the land vulnerable to earthquakes, 8.5 per cent to cyclones and 5 per cent is prone to river basin floods.

Climate change and its impacts The key takeaways of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are:

Research indicates that stress from heat can cause decline in milk yield in the range of 10 to 30 per cent in first lactation and 5 to 20 per cent in second and third lactation, and that both the heat waves and cold waves can cause short long term cumulative heat effect on milk production in cattle and buffaloes.

Heat stress can also impact animal reproduction adversely as levels above the acceptable levels can impact conception rates. Stressful heat can also reduce blood flow to uterine tract and damage developing embryos as well as impact semen quality.

Variability and extreme events in climate like draught, heat waves and cyclones are likely to put additional stress of fragile zone in arid and semiarid regions thereby impacting crop production and the consequential availability of residues for feed.

Under National Dairy Plan (NDP) I – A programme under implementation by NDDB, indigenous breed development programmes for eleven breeds – Kankrej, Rathi, Gir, Sahiwal, Hariana and Tharparkar breeds of cattle and Murrah, Mehsana,Nili Ravi, Jaffarbadi and Pandharpuri breedsof buffaloes are being implemented in their respective native tracts through a scientific selection programme.

To adapt to heat stress, experts recommend simple modifications in feeding practices such as hydration of dry straws, incorporation of excellent quality green fodder when available, replacing inferior quality roughage with concentrate, feeding properly chaffed dry fodder etc.

Animal shelters that have appropriate design, height and orientation, choice of roofing material, provision of open space for ventilation and space per animal can help in creating a cooler microenvironment or animals. Water can be used to bring down the micro-environmental temperature within the animal shelters and increase the evaporative heat loss from animal body.

Mitigation measures for climate change The ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level

Lignin formation in plant tissues can increase with higher temperatures leading to lower digestibility and rates of degradation of fodder and crop residues in the rumen of animals leading to reduced nutrient availability for animals and thereby reduction in production.

Climate change can impact the frequency and extent of outbreaks of infectious diseases like FMD and HS as well as cause new transmission modes which can be aided by reduced immunity levels due to inclement conditions. While increased temperatures can increase rate of growth of pathogens outside their host altered humidity levels can affect those sensitive organisms and changes in wind patterns can affect the spread of diseases. Increased temperatures can result in increased usage of water by animals both for drinking and any usage for cooling the animal.

Studies indicates that water intake increases from about 3 litres per kg dry matter intake at 10C ambient temperature is about 10litres in case of indigenous cattle and about 14 litres in case of exotic breeds (Bos Taurus) at 35C. Some of this water intake comes from forage and forage water

• Human influence on the climate system is clear with emissions of green-house gases most likely to have caused warming and other long lasting changes. Limiting climate change would require substantial and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

• Surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century under all scenarios, with high likelihood of frequent and longer heat waves, intense and more frequent extreme precipitation events, continued trend in warming and acidification of oceans as well as rise inmean sea levels.

• Adaptation and mitigation are complementary strategies for reaching and managing the risks of climate change and no single option is sufficient.

While adaptation can reduce the risks of climate change impacts there are limits to its effectiveness, especially with greater magnitudes and rates

appropriate mix of breeds that can adapt to the region in which they are to be kept should be the most crucial element in the adaptation strategy.

that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.India’s gross emissions of Greenhouse Gases was estimated at 2.136 billion tonnes in CO2 equivalent in 2010, of which the energy sector contributed 71 per cent, industrial product and process use – 8 per cent, agriculture-18 per cent and waste sector-3 per cent. After the offset by carbon sink action of forests and croplands, the net emissions is about 1.884 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

Of the 0.39 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent from agriculture in India, about 58 per cent (0.23 billion tonnes) is from enteric fermentation from livestock. While India’s dairy sector accounts for 18.3 per cent of global milk production, its contribution to GHG emissions is only 14.1%.

There are several ways to avoid increase of emission intensity or reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases: • Improving productivity of our animals • Adopting a predominantly crop residue based feeding pattern • Adopting a mixed crop livestock production

content itself will also depend on climate related factors.

Adapting to climate change As the indigenous breeds have genetic traits that help them to survive with in harsh climates, pursuing breed policies that can encourage an

system • Encouraging produces to feed a balanced ration • Adopt renewable energy in the dairy value chain Due to increased productivity, carbon foot print of milk in terms of kg of CO2 equivalent per kg of

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Fat and Protein Corrected Milk (FPCM) decreased in case of both cattle and buffalo milk over tenyear period ending 2014. These are lower than the corresponding values reported by FAO for South Asia.

In the area of animal breeding, methane emissions from dairy animals on per kg of milk basis can be reduced by ensuring a higher proportion of in-milk animals through as efficient system for AI and by up-gradation of non-descript animals.

The measures will result in higher productivity and thereby lower emissions per kg of milk.A lower carbon footprint for crop residue based milk production system in India is primarily because animals’ ration does not contain significant quantity of grains and green fodder, which require a substantial amount of energy and fertilizer for their production.

In mixed crop livestock system of India, CO2eq. Emissions are avoided annually due to use of draught power in agriculture, use of dung cake and biogas for cooking and use of biogas slurry as a valuable source of bio-fertilizer for crop production.Studies conducted by NDDB indicate that it is possible to reduce enteric methane emission by 10 per cent on feeding a balanced ration in dairy animals.

Under NDP I, NDDB is implementing Ration Balancing Programme (RBP) in all major dairying states. About 2 billion animals are covered under RBP and there is a net reduction in methane emission.

NDDB has also been encouraging dairies in the dairy Co-operative network to adopt renewable energy include the following: • NDDB is implementing Concentrated Solar Thermal projects for the dairy co-operatives • Many Milk Unions in India have opted for Solar Powered Milk Collection Systemsin India and NDP I includes such units • NDDB is exploring a pilot project of utilizing solar Energy to power Dairy Cooperative Societies in a grid connected model where in the surplus can be exported to the grid.

• NDDB’s wholly owned subsidiaries have also undertaken or planning to use solar power.

Concluding remarks Climate change is a challenge that impacts the dairy sector. The dairy industry must not only evolve adaptation strategies but also help in mitigation by contributing to reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector.

The Paris Agreement mandates that the temperatures are not allowed to exceed by 2 degrees centigrade from pre-industrial levels.

Considering the current rate of increase in recent decades, urgent action must be initiated to halt and reverse this increase.

In the context of climate change, all must remember the wisdom of a Native American Indian proverb which goes as:“We do not inherit from our ancestors; we borrow from our children”.

As Voltaire famously said “Men argue. Nature acts”, the dairy industry would be enforced to deal with forces of nature, if it is unable to act with urgency now.

IDA in its efforts to highlight the importance of climate change in dairy development through this conference hopes that the ideas & discussions presented would result in an actionable agenda for action in which all stakeholders of the dairy industry must contribute to the country’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years.

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Packaging, A Very Effective Way Of Branding Q.1 What is the current scenario of packaging industry in India?

Increasingly basic food is available in pre-packed and branded form, for example Mrunal Joshi Executive Director sugar, rice, grains, pulses, aata, Nichrome Packaging oil, milk etc. The percentage of sale of loose food products is reducing year after year.

Consumers, especially urban population is spending more of its earnings on processed, packaged and branded food. But still there is a lot of unexplored market that needs to be tapped and which will convert to packaging in the years to come.

Q.2 What are the growth factors of this industry?

Penetration to reach untapped areas in the rural and urban market. Branding of more commodity products like grains, aata and sugar, growth in processed and ready to eat foods in urban markets and its spread in rural markets as well.

Q. 3 Why is packaging an important aspect in the industry?

Packaging increases the shelf life of the product keeping intact the nature of the product like the crunch, aroma, moisture content, shelf life etc.

The packaging enhances the appearance, look and feel of the product bestowing confidence in the customers’ mind. Packaging is also a very effective way of Branding.

Right and innovative packaging of the product distinguishes the product from competition on retail shelves improving sales for the manufacturer.

A package should be consumer friendly and designed keeping the purpose of use in mind.

Q. 4 What steps would you ensure to continue to grow and develop as a leader in the Dairy Industry?

We are offering the fastest solutions to the market.

Be it for liquid milk – Filpack 12K which gives 12000 pouches per hour or Maxima 400 giving 400 pouches per minute for milk powder. We have also launched the new Multilane stickpack for dairy whitener, condensed milk, ghee which caters to the hospitality industry. We have recently collaborated with an Italian company for the Thermoforming and Tray sealing machines.

We are looking to serve the products like dairy based sweets, paneer, cheese, khowa etc. through this vertical. We have recently developed the packing solutions for upto 7 litres for milk used as institutional packs. It is a mechanical servo technology giving a speed of 15 packs per minute.

The key is to understand the market needs, know future trends and lead through technology and customer satisfaction.

Q. 5 Kindly brief us about your products & services.

Nichrome India is India’s leading packaging machine manufacturing company being the pioneer in packing milk, oil and tea in pouches and having manufactured fastest milk, oil, and powder packaging in India. We are present in liquid, solid and viscous flexible packaging and are leaders in VFFS, HHFS, Multilane and are introducing futuristic packaging techniques like Tray Sealing machine from all over the world in Indian market.

Q. 6 What are your prospective plans for next 5 years?

We are watching the trends in packaging very closely and intend to introduce new packaging technologies and solutions. One of the area is automation of secondary packing solutions for milk and other products.

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towards roads and highways posing danger of accidents to themselves as well as to humans.

Disposing the dead cattle: Skinning and disposing the carcass of dead cows poses another death threat to the community of the skinners by the cow vigilantes. Many animal skinners have threatened to stop lifting the dead animals from May 2017 onwards if the atrocities towards them are not stopped.

While risking human life is one issue, not skinning

these dead cattle will leave these skinners jobless with no incentives to lift the carcasses. Though skinning the animals is an authorised job by Municipal laws, including cows, the cow vigilantes hold strong apprehension for the skinning dead ones but to bury them instead.

The means of livelihood of these skinners is the hide of the cow which fetches a price as high as Rs. 2,500 to 3,000 and bones fetch Rs.300/As far as environmental crisis is concerned, if the skinners stop lifting the dead animals we face a graver situation of epidemics & pollution.

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AHAR - International Food & Hospitality Fair was a 5 day trade show event held at the Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India from 7th to 11th March 2017. This food event exhibited various products like fresh produce & dairy products, chocolate/ desserts, bakery products and ingredients, organic & health products, frozen, canned & processed products, meat, poultry & sea foods, cheese & fine specialty food, snacks & convenience food, food ingredients, additives and preservatives coffee, tea, syrups, juices & energy drinks in the hotel, restaurant & catering industry. AAHAR is organised by India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) and the closing ceremony seen awards distributed to recipients for their excellent services in hospitality and décor solutions, F&B equipment and so on.

The food and processed food category was divided into two sub-categories: domestic and foreign.

In the domestic category, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) and Culinary Art India were given the gold medals whereas Food Service India and Shineroad Foods India received silver and bronze medals respectively. Pentair Water India Pvt. Ltd gains the gold memento in the F&B equipment category. Followed by Bharat Potteries and Ramsha Carpet and More were bestowed with

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silver and bronze mementos respectively for the same category. Moving on to the hospitality and décor solutions section, Sai Siddeshwara Arts & Frames received the gold medal and Springtek, I P Cleaning India Pvt. Ltd gets silver and bronze medals.

As per ITPO officials, 90 per cent of the participants showed deep interest to partake in the next AAHAR edition as well. General Manager of ITPO, J Guna Sekaran was grateful to the continuous support of the associates in organising such mega food event.

This year AAHAR witnessed approximately 900 exhibitors from 19 countries including India and a footfall of about 70,000 visitors.

He said AAHAR was extremely successful in terms of enhanced size as well as quality of exhibitors and visitors.

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A New Benchmark for the Cold Chain Sector EMERSON COLD CHAIN & DISTRIBUTION CENTER Mr. Sridar Narayanswami Managing Director Emerson Climate Technologies -India

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here is a growing need for adoption of energy efficient technologies to offset power shortages and raising awareness levels across the food chain on the value of leveraging technology, to scale up the Cold Chain Infrastructure in the country. Recognizing that a strong cold chain infrastructure is vital to make the step change required to reduce the amount of food being wasted in India. Hence to instill best practices and promote the usage of green energy efficient technologies in the cold chain sector, Emerson has developed a state-of-the-art 25,000-squaremeter Cold Chain Centre of Excellence at Chakan, Pune which has rapidly risen to be recognized as the hub of cold chain solutions in India.A visit to this excellent Centre and an interaction with Emerson Climate Technologies, India – MD Sridar Narayanswami touched upon several topics of the Indian cold chain industry, and how Emerson with its wide range of commercial and refrigeration solutions is contributing to the industry.

Emerson is focused to provide two key business platforms. One is called is automation solutions, and the other in option automation solution. Right from providing control systems to feel devices such as flow metres, transmitters, valves, and so the monitor in control process the plant. Hence to control and monitor the plant, the company provides Emerson devices that are spread over all the plant,to automate, control & monitor the plant.

Sridhar Narayanswami said that “There are quite a few verticals in the HVAC&R business at which we continue to look closely, to expand our business. After setting up our footprint in the cold chain business, we are looking at long distance railways and metro rail as areas of growth. We already have a solid presence in rail coach air conditioning business. As metro rail expands in India, we expect this to be an area of growth for us.Overall in the last 3 years Emerson India has invested $400 million dollars in our operations and plants here. It plans to invest an additional $200 million over the next few years.”

Whatever is produced in that plant is designed and developed in their engineering centre at Karnal.

This is totally in line with the philosophy of what Indian government is promoting in‘Make in India’.

Hence Emerson designs in India, and then makes and produces it in India, not just for the Indian market but also for the export market as well.

Since then Emerson has been a fully owned identity in India, having world class manufacturing plant where manufactures reciprocate compressors in a place called Satara, which is inside a village called Atit in Satara district. Over a million compressors are produced in that plant annually. Those compressors are used not only in every state in India, but also exported to markets in Middle East, Korea, China, South East Asia, Latin America as well as to Europe.

A very significant aspect is very important in Indian perspective that is development of cold chain. The reason for its importance is that it has associated with food, and for a country like India, food and usage of food is so very important. Noticeably 1.3 billion tonnes of food that gets wasted annually, and the cost of that wastage is 1 trillion dollars.

So, globally there are about 750 million people who are underfed.Just imagine that one side there is food that is getting wasted, and on the other side 750 million people, close to a tenth of the global population who are underfed.

Along the same lines, for a country like India that is a developing country with a lot of success but still has a lot of ground to cover. Cold chain and having a strong cold chain which can therefore help transmit food from the farm to the people who consume it, without losing its freshness.

It’s very critical because of all that reaches to the people who consume it, without any food wastage.

This will go a long way in reducing the poverty.

So, there is a huge opportunity for a very strong cold chain that can really reduce the wastage of food in the country. Therefore, cold chain or cold storages have very significant role to play and Emerson being the global technology player with significant technology has decided to make beneficial contribution to this country.

There are significant brands under the umbrella of Emerson automation solutions and is associated with the leading private and public sector companies in this industry. Emerson commercial and residential solutions in India is essentially the climatic technology business. They provide air conditioning and refrigeration solutions. As a company at a macro level, it is driven to make efficient use of technology and equipment,that would help protect the environment and improve the human comfort.

Flagship brand is a part of the Emerson climatic technologies business but the most important brand known is Copeland. This brand mainly focuses on providing compressors and condensing units.

It also focuses on other events as flow controls, electronics, and all the parts of the refrigeration process. There are some very interesting applications, for example- if you travel by Indian Railways, chances are that Emerson compressors power the AC coach.

With market presence in India for about 40 years, the company had started their journey with a very respected Indian group called Kirloskar and then in around 1996, had a formal joint venture with them, called Kirloskar Copeland. A very wellknown brand and had a very successful venture that continued for about 10 years and then Emerson acquired the stake from Kirloskars and became a fully owned identity.

What are the challenges today in cold storages?

There are cold storages in our country that are certainly inadequate for a country like India. One of the studies that NCCD published said that India needs over 75,000 of what it has which is probably less than a thousand today. So, there is a huge gap between what is required and what is available.

The cost of running these kind of technologies and awareness about cold chain is high in India. For example, take a developed country, their operating cost is about 30 dollars per cubic metre. In India, the cost is 60 dollars a cubic metre. 13 per cent of the operating cost in cold chain is electricity and it takes a lot of power. Hence there are some of the challenges that need to be looked after.

Emerson Cold Chain Centre has conducted over 75,000 training sessions, food training, and provided hands-on training. The team provides

from very basic to some advance training free of cost. The feedback received every month has been very positive and there are private companies, and people who set up and run cold chain companies who have attended these training sessions.

Organizations like UNICEF trained their people at this Centre so that they know how to use the equipment.

All over the country across applications, whether it is in dairy or in meat processing, in pack houses,

food processing, logistics, and latest ways of applications right from farm to folk and working with companies to provide the kind of solutions required. Emerson has the competence to provide their own equipment and services.Products such as compressors are expensive. Sometimes, customers may say if they could repair it with local compressor or if imported compressor, can Emerson repair this? Yes, Emerson is capable to repair those compressors and provide good services in India itself.

The company has a portfolio of condensing units that are used in these cold chain applications, and are customized for India. They have a complete portfolio right from small simple modular cold room, to very large cold storages. Emerson believes their strength is that they can customize as per the customer needs at an optimised cost.

Their ability to offer what is best aligned as per customer needs, customise it for the local, and then supply it to them quickly. An added advantage they possess, is the ability to provide execution services and support people to install and commission units in the field.

This cold chain centre was set up in Pune, in November of 2013. The focus of this centre has been to provide training and educational services so that the people who are part of this cold chain, whether they are consultants, contractors, OEMs etc. To understand what are the best technologies that are available, how to keep the life cycle cost low, how to deploy technologies which would be leading to less impact on the environment, how to use certain refrigerators that cause less global warming to the environment, as compared to the others. Once you have the equipment, how to deploy the equipment in a way and know how to service and use it in a way, that’s required.

India is a large country and there is a need to be closer to where people can come and get trained, as well use these facilities. That’s the reason Emerson opened its second coaching centre in Gurgaon, Haryana having similar coaching services and it has been very well received. Training is provided, there are simulation health, and demo equipment, where in people can come, play, and get to know

about the product. Also, they provide repair and project design services.

The only difference between the Centre in Chakan and Gurgaon unit is that the condensing services are manufactured in Chakan. They believe in providing value to the food chain industry. Emerson wants to provide a breadth of solutions that cater to the new circle of customers, keeping their needs in mind, thereby optimizing & providing the best in class technology here. Cold chain centre in Chakan makes use of the best technology, they can provide it not just at large units but also provide racks.

There are centralized racks, or a single/multiple rack units, it can take care of all the refrigeration, deep freezers to store ice cream, some meat,or any other perishable food items.

The company is also able to offer investor based, modulation based units, that efficiently and precisely control the temperature upto + or - 5. Emerson’s key strength is air conditioning, and they have one of the best solutions in India. The second key strength that Emerson has continuously worked on with various partners, and as a company it is always ready to deploy more environmental friendly refrigeration solutions that are better on the global performing platform.

It has been observed that markets like India, the customers are clearly wanting to be more environment friendly, responsible, and want to use the best refrigerants from the perspective of being lower on the global warming potential.

Emerson has constantly continued to develop newer products and the company has a very strong backbone of engineering and research in India. Today, the reputed company stands at an esteemed positon, wherein they can offer not just traditional refrigerants used in India, but also the next generation that is CO2 based or propane based refrigerants.448A, 449A - next generation of refrigerants has become increasingly environmentally responsible, with the use of right equipment.

Emerson is a brand which acquired two companies called locus tracks and pack sense last year.

Energy-efficient solutions is another aspect that is essential to reduce global warming levels. Even in emerging countries like China there is about 2425 per cent energy saving and this trend will soon catch up in India as well. The products, solutions, and offerings provided by Emerson will greatly help to develop the cold chain industry in India.

Emerson has service centers and cold chain centers similar to Pune and Gurgaon in Jakarta, Australia, Thailand, Dubai, China all spread across Asia.

The focus is on to provide the most important components which are critical to the optimum performance of cold chain, reliability and being environmental friendly.

When asked how does Emerson monitor and track cold chain activities from a specific location, also how it makes the course corrections if required; Sridar answered that in developed countries like US, Australia there is a lot of tracking, monitoring emphasized. There is acentre in Manila that provides this service and is used successfully to keep energy and maintenance cost down.

Since it can predict what could fail and fix it in advance, they know whether the alarm is genuine or a false. Globally there are several customers who are using it and in India it is still evolving.

Customers will want it eventually in the future as the awareness rate is going up. Exporters are Cont on Pg no. 24

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Danone introduces dairy product Greek yogurt

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rench giant Danone introduces Greek yogurt in the Indian market. The Country Manager for Danone’s dairy business in India, Manjari Upadhye said “Greek yogurt signifies the emergence of a new category of yogurt in India that is now finding acceptance among Indians due to its high nutrition quotient.

Healthier snacking choices are driving yogurt sales and we are well poised to grow the category, by expanding our distribution footprint to make our value added dairy products available to consumers in more cities across India.”

using this technology – data logger to make sure the producers maintained quality of the products such as vaccines etc.

We were curious to know if Emerson has any expansion plans. On this Sridar said that they will open many such centers across the country. Further stating that adoption of modular technology for room air-conditioning space is taking importance in large commercial building malls, movie theatres, shopping complexes, office spaces, variable speed technology, that has the potential for substantial energy saving. A slew of offerings has been lined up for this.

Are these two-cold chain centres sufficient for entire country?

A lot of stakeholders in the industry, will have to contribute with the government and PM Modi.In the recent ‘mann ki baat’ he emphasized on food wastage. We have some very important nodal bodies – NCCD, NHB who are promoting the cold chain in a sustainable manner. Emerson wants to make the contribution by making sure that

we help develop the cold chain, make available environmental friendly tech, optimize the life cycle cost.Help the key stakeholders end customers, engineers, contractors, by educating them on how to use, maximize, utilize the technology, for maximum value to successfully invest and use the cold chain effectively.

Managing Director of Danone India, Rodrigo Lima said the launch came as the company’s dairy division was ‘poised for a healthy growth with new product offerings.’

product innovation,” he said.

The Greek yogurt is available in blueberry and mango flavours. The company said it is made with only natural ingredients and contains fruit pieces.

This is our contribution via training and educating services, project designing services, these trained people do share a feedback that their ability to install, maintain, commission,

“The product does not contain any artificial flavours or colours. It contains more protein and lower fat than regular fruit yogurt available in the market.”

maintain, use and optimize has gone up. It’s a journey and as we go by, we will do more.

The new product is priced at Rs35 (US$0.52) for an 80g cup and will be available in stores in the NCR-Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai, where Danone has fresh dairy presence.

For country to phase out from generation of refrigerants and scale down by 2027-28 to environment-friendly refrigerants we are collaborating with large companies to bring them to India. To monitor, control, track and remotely power – we have the hardware and software – and as the market gets ready, we will aim at these spaces.

“We will leverage our global expertise in yogurts to build the category in India and establish the relevance for the category through the right

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ntroduction Dairy producers are constantly searching out new management techniques to improve production efficiency and cash flow.

Photoperiod management has Bhavesh Chavhan Asstt.Prof, CDT Udgir

received interest lately as a cost effective method to increase production in lactating cows. That is because in cows exposed to long days, i.e. 16 to 18 hours of light (180 lux) and a 6 to 8-hour period of darkness, daily milk production increases an average of 2 liters/cow, relative to those on natural photoperiods i.e.15 to 20 footcandles (fc) has been shown to increase milk production from 5 to 16 per cent above cows exposed to less than 13.5 hours of light in research trials.The purpose of this article is to review the evidence for a response of lactating and dry cows to photoperiod, describe the physiologic basis for those responses, and discuss the energy efficient lighting use in farm so as to improve farm Fig.1

productivity and increase revenue, while lowering energy costs.

Effect of Photoperiod in Lactating Cows The impact of long days on milk production was first observed in 1978 by researchers at Michigan State University. Cows were placed on 16 hours of light, 8 hours of darkness (16L:8D) or left on natural photoperiod at calving. The study was conducted between September and March, when natural light was limited to less than 12 hours each day. Over the first 100 days postpartum, cows on long days produced 2.0 L/d more milk than

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those on natural photoperiod. At 100 days, the treatments were switched and the cows previously on natural photoperiod increased milk production, whereas the cows previously on 16L:8D decreased milk yield. Those results suggested that exposure to long days increased milk yield and did so across production levels. Since that first study, at least ten other experiments at 7 different laboratories across North America and Europe have confirmed the response. Based on those studies it is expected that cows on long days will produce an average of 2 liters more than control animals on natural photoperiod.

What is the basis of the response? Recent studies reveal a potential physiologic mechanism for the increase in yield from cows on long days.

Differences in light exposure alter secretion of a number of hormones. Indeed, those hormonal shifts drive the commonly observed changes in reproductive activity in other species. The first hormone impacted by photoperiod is melatonin, which is secreted in response to darkness. Thus, in cows and other animals, a long day actually reduces the duration of elevated melatonin. Animals use this pattern of melatonin to track daylength, and then alter secretion of other hormones.

In cows, a long day pattern is associated with higher secretion of the hormone insulin-like growth factor-I. Higher IGF-I, in turn, is thought to increase milk yield. It is of interest that bovine somatotropin (bST), which also increases milk yield, stimulates IGF-I release as well. Treated cows with either long days or natural photoperiod, and half of each of those groups received bST as well. Relative to cows on natural photoperiod, milk yield increased 1.9 L/d in the cows on long days, and 5.7 L/d in bST. The combination of long days and bST improved production 7.7 L/d, clearly an additive response, which suggests that the two manipulations are not antagonistic.

Photoperiod Treatment of Dry Cows Lactation, however, is not the only time during the annual milk production cycle when photoperiod treatment is recommended. Recent studies suggest

that appropriate photoperiod treatment of the dry cow can markedly enhance milk yield in the subsequent lactation. We treated cows with either long or short (8L: 16D) days during the entire 60-d dry period. Cows were then exposed to natural photoperiod after parturition, which occurred between November and January. Surprisingly, over the first 120 days of lactation, cows treated with short days when dry produced 3.2 L/d more milk than the cows on long days. It is important to note that all cows were housed together, fed the same diet, and managed identically following parturition. Data are consistent with other reports of the impact of photoperiod manipulation during the dry period.

Energy Efficient light for dairy farm The common theme behind the use of all these sources is the basic need for supplemental light to provide people the visual activity to perform required functions accurately, efficiently and safely. The available energy conservation options for improving lighting efficiency and efficacy on the farm are enormous. New and improved lighting technology is being developed continually.

A recent development in the application of lighting technology on dairy farms may involve photoperiod manipulation, or long-day lighting, Fig.3

of dairy cows to increase milk production. An efficient lighting design and control system must be implemented to obtain the benefits of long-day lighting.

The type of luminaries that can used to provide lighting includes metal halide(MH), high- pressure

sodium (HPS), and fluorescent. Indicated that these three light sources will create a milk yield response HPS lights deliver more lumensper Watt Fig.2

than MH,this is obviously an economic advantage because fewer luminaries are needed to obtain the same average light level and lower connected load (kW). MH luminaries have a more white output light color while HPS luminaries have a yellowish/orange output color. Lighting system designers should consult with the dairy producer and determine their preference for luminary’s output light color.

Fluorescent lights have a lamp life similar to MH. However, fluorescent lamps have a lower lamp lumen depreciation factor meaning that they stay brighter longer. In fact, mean light output for fluorescent lamps can be 95 percent of the initial light output while MH may be 65 per cent.

Finally, LED lights can provide high energy efficiency with a reported 100,000 hour operating life. This is significantly longer than the reported 20,000 hour operating life of fluorescent and HID fixtures. Moreover, LED lights are expected to have lower maintenance costs, contain no mercury, and provide instantaneous reliable light.

However, LED fixtures are expensive compared to the other fixtures. When considering implementing long day photo period(LDPP), LED fixtures may provide an edge. LED fixtures can provide light in the same spectrum as sunlight and are more reliable under cold conditions. These two considerations suggest LED fixtures may be best suited for implementing LDPP. However, this scenario needs to be investigated under barn conditions.

By decade-end private dairies will be ahead of co-operatives in milk procurement

rivate corporate dairies will overtake cooperatives and handle larger milk volumes than the latter within the next five years. In 2015, cooperatives and organised private dairies procured an estimated 15.55 million tonnes (mt) each of milk. By 2020, procurement by private dairies is projected to reach 28.93 mt, ahead of the 23.67 mt of cooperatives.

This is also consistent with the general trend observed since 1992 when the dairy sector was delicensed and private players could freely establish capacities and even more so from the early 2000s.

Prior to that, especially during the heydays of the Operation Flood Programme (1970-96) built around cooperatives, there were hardly any large organised private diaries, barring the odd Nestle India or Milkfood Ltd. But today, the Chennai-based Hatsun Agro Product Ltd alone procures an average 26 lakh litres per day (LLPD) or close to 1 mt annually.

Besides, there are at least 9 companies with an average milk procurement of 10-15 LLPD each (Parag Milk Foods, Schreiber Dynamix Dairies, Heritage Foods, Tirumala Milk Products, Kwality Ltd, Sterling Agro Industries, VRS Foods, Bhole Baba Milk Food Industries and Nestle India) and many others that do 5-10 LLPD (Prabhat Dairy,

Indapur Dairy, Dodla Dairy, Creamline Dairy Products, SMC Foods, Milkfood, Gopaljee Dairy Foods, and Anik Industries).

As far as cooperatives go, a major chunk of their total average milk procurement of around 415 LLPD in 2015-16 was accounted for by only 5 state-level federations: Gujarat (‘Amul’ at 170 LLPD), Karnataka (‘Nandini’ at 63 LLPD), Tamil Nadu (‘Aavin’ at 30 LLPD), Rajasthan (‘Saras’ at 25 LLPD) and Bihar (‘Sudha’ at 17 LLPD). The cooperative sector now basically comprises a few large players that are mainly into liquid milk marketing, whereas private dairies cover a host of medium-scale corporates, most of them post-1992 entrants and interestingly very few multinationals.

Organised dairies, both cooperatives and private together handled 31.1 mt or just over 21 per cent of India’s total milk production of 146.3 mt in 2015. But in 2020, the country’s output is estimated to touch 190 mt and the organised sector would procure 52.6 mt or nearly 28 per cent of this. The remaining 72 per cent will be handled by traditional small-scale suppliers/vendors (58 mt, marginally up from 54.6 mt in 2015) or retained for consumption within rural households (79.4 mt, up from 60.6 mt).

Indian market for milk and dairy products – in

terms of the value paid by consumers is pegged at Rs 5,26,403.6 crore or $81 billion in 2015 will grow to Rs 10,05,264.2 crore or $134 billion by 2020, assuming an exchange rate of Rs 75 to a dollar. The organised sector’s share of this market is seen to rise from about 29 per cent to 37 per cent over this period.

Significantly, the biggest component of India’s dairy market is liquid milk; it’s roughly 58 per cent share in the total value is unlikely to register major change between now and 2020. At the same time, forecast share of organised dairies in liquid milk marketing to go up from 23.3 per cent to 31 per cent. In other words, consumers will increasingly purchase branded liquid milk sold in pouches, as opposed to buying in loose from the neighbourhood dudhia.

After liquid milk, the largest segment of the country’s dairy market is desiccated products (khoa, chhana and paneer) used as base material for a variety of indigenous sweets and preparations, followed by ghee. The volumes for khoa are huge, as it is the main ingredient in every sweet from gulab jamun, burfi and peda to kalakand. Dairies can produce it on a large-scale using continuous khoa making machines for use both as a conserved dairy commodity, like milk powder, and for

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supplying to halwais. The industry should look more at traditional milk products. The market for these far exceeds that of western dairy products like whiteners, table butter and cheese.

One example of how inward-looking, yet out-ofbox, innovation can help is dahi (curd or yogurt).

This was a non-existent product category in the portfolio of major dairies even two decades ago, as curd and butter milk were almost entirely being made from milk at home. But in 2015, the total market for dahi that also includes lassi/butter milk was Rs 12,420 crore, out of which organised dairies contributed Rs 6,720 crore.

On the production side, 51.1 per cent of the country’s milk output of 146.3 mt in 2015 came from buffaloes, with crossbred cows (25.2), indigenous cattle (20.2), and other animals (3.5) accounting for the rest. Despite official efforts of promoting indigenous cattle breeds through programmes like the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, their overall population is slated to decline from 15.12 crore in 2012 to 12 crore by 2020. The buffalo numbers will rise marginally from 10.87 crore to 11.4 crore, as higher fat content milk and ease of sale for slaughter purpose continue to make it viable for farmers to rear them.

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Saving milk from spoilage in rural India

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ndia ranks first in milk production, accounting for 18.5 per cent of world production, achieving an annual output of 146.3 million

tonnes during 2014-15 as Dr. Gurmit Singh Water Fuel Energy Solutions compared to 137.69 million Gurgaun

tonnes during 2013-14 recording a growth of 6.26 per cent. Whereas, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has reported a 3.1 per cent increase in world milk production from 765 million tonnes in 2013 to 789 million tonnes in 2014.

It’s estimated that 370 Lakhs litres of milk

is spoiled annually in India due to lack of refrigeration.

The per capita availability of milk in India has increased from 176 grams per day in 1990-91 to 322 grams per day by 2014-15. It is more than the world average of 294 grams per day during 2013.

This represents a sustained growth in availability of milk and milk products for the growing population. Dairying has become an important secondary source of income for millions of rural households engaged in agriculture.

Against this backdrop, lack of refrigeration in rural India is leading millions of tonnes of fresh produce going waste every year. India is the largest producer and consumer of milk in the world; 130m tons of milk is produced annually by rural farmers in India, yet a significant proportion of this is lost.

Lack of a reliable electricity supply is one of the biggest challenges. Around 400 million people are without access to a reliable power supply, and some communities consider themselves lucky if they get 10 hours of electricity per day.

Milk production in India tends to come from

millions of individual farmers who have one or two cows and produce five to ten litres milk each day.

They take that milk to a village collection centre where milk from about 30 to 50 farmers is accumulated.

From there, it will quickly be transported to a chilling centre. The process occurs twice a day, as milking is carried out morning and evening.

Not only does twice-aday transportation comes at a high cost in terms of diesel but, in India's hot climate, milk spoils within five hours so time is of essence. (See graph Bacteria in Millions). In the hot season, farmers can lose as much as 30 per cent of their milk to spoilage.

The five-hour window to chill the milk makes it unviable to collect milk from locations that are distant from the chilling centres. The obvious answer is to chill the milk in the village where it is produced.

By making ice, you store energy, and when you melt the ice, you release energy. This is the key to rapidly chilling the milk and storing it. We provide the farmers with ‘Food Proof Freezer Bricks’, these bricks are stored in the freezer of a household

refrigerator and are used in the bucket while milking.

This instantly brings down the temperature of the fresh milk to 4 degrees Celsius even when the power goes out.After use these freezer bricks are again stored in the freezer of household refrigerator for next use.

The most important is to retain the temperature at 4 degrees Celsius during transport to collection centre. Here our ‘Battery Operated Refrigerated Milk Can’ comes handy. This insulated milk can have an integrated thermoelectric cooling system, it is connected to the car, tractor, van, or motorcycle battery have 12 volts output. If other source of transport is used which does not have a battery, an external battery can be used. This battery lasts for seven hour of continuous use because our cooling system consumes very less power.

Alternately, solar panels can also be used to charge the batteries making this technology environmental friendly.

Our plan is to expand the technology to large rural areas that are off-grid or only partially serviced and make it more affordable for farmers with 2-3 cows only.

Parag Milk Foods launches whey protein "Avvatar"

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arag Milk Foods, one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of dairybased branded foods, entered the whey protein market with the launch of Avvatar, a grassfed whey protein powder.

The product will be available in three flavours (Double Chocolate, Vanilla Snow Creme and Cafe Mocha Swirl) in two variants (2lb and 5lb, priced at Rs 3,200 and Rs 7,000 respectively).

The product, which is 100 per cent vegetarian and made in India, is produced during the cheese manufacturing process using fresh grass-fed cow’s milk.

The product is easily soluble, easy to digest and mixable and improves fat loss. The company has

collaborated with Australian expert Ken Thomas for better technical understanding and developing the product.

Devendra Shah, Chairman, Parag Milk Foods Ltd, said, “With the launch of this product, we are ready

to enter the $12.4 billion whey protein market.”

“The unique selling proposition (USP) of the product is that it is gluten-, sugar- and soya-free.

We have invested Rs 110 crore in the plant as we foresee a huge demand and potential from the retail consumer,” he said.

“Protein-based foods and beverages are becoming popular among people and they are ready to pay for it. So in order to anticipate this demand, we believe in constantly innovating our product offering,” Shah said.

He added, “Another unique point of this product is its freshness. To maintain it, the entire process from the milking of the cows to the packaging of the whey powder is completed within 24 hours. Other

products in the market have imported ingredients and reach the consumer after six months.”

“Whey protein powder constitutes a market share of over 95 per cent and contributes about 80 per cent to sports nutrition,” he added.

“Also being a cheese player, we always had whey as a by-product which we wanted to convert into powder for sportsmen,” Shah stated.

“At present, we produce 60 tons of cheese at our plant every day. Of this, four to six tons of whey powder is produced,” he added.

Mahesh Israni, Chief Marketing Officer, Parag

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The Legend of CHEESE

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milk product that tingles million tastebuds on our tongue, the moment we say CHEESE. Instantly, pizzas, burgers, pasta sandwiches flashes on the vision, the hunger pangs are more intense.

dry in appearance, high-quality, threadbare, ability to melt, flow stretch and possess crunchiness on cooking/baking.

It is now a $430 million a year industry, shipping approximately 33,000 tons to European countries and expanding it to Russia & Japan.

Today, more cheese is being made in oblong blocks, because in this form it is easier to handle mechanically. Consumer-sized pieces can be cut and wrapped mechanically in foil or film wrappings ready for sale.The introduction of these newer shapes created the production of rindless cheese, thus saving from 6 per cent to 15 per cent of the wastage due to rind formation. The film or foil wrapping of the blocks reduces wastage and renders humidity control of the store room unnecessary.

Cheese-making is still an art, but many of the operations are being mechanized and manual control exercised at the major control stage.

Statistics of United States says that US is a lead producer, France stands second followed by Italy.

Nearly, a quarter of the cheese in international trade comes from The Netherlands, while Britain even though with domestic production is the world’s biggest importer and imports coming from New Zealand.

Turning our attention to India, the only cheese known to us was cottage cheese popularly known as “Paneer”. An inexpensive cheese for Indians as compared to imported ones, paneer remains as favorite gourmet. Basically, it was and still is used in evening snacks, sandwiches and added in combination with other vegetables as main course table dish. The Western countries introduced the varieties of cheese to the Indian market creating a boom of likeness towards this awesome milk product.

Age no bar, all immensely relish this creamy product.

The origin of cheese is lost in antiquity, but probably arose out of the practice of nomadic tribes in the Middle East carrying liquids in skin bags during their wanderings. Surplus milk carried in this way became soured either by bacterial or enzymatic action.

The resulting whey was prized as a refreshing drink and the curds were eaten fresh or salted.

Thus, it was a short step to primitive and rural cheese making.

Certain areas have become famous for a particular variety of cheese, even though the cheese is not necessarily made in the area. Roquefort cheese, well known for over a thousand years, owes its flavor to mould growth in the cheese when ripened in the famous Roquefort caves in the French massif. Today, cheese made far distant from Roquefort is brought to the caves for ripening.

Cheddar cheese, took its name from the Cheddar area in Somerset, but Cheddar cheese is today made in most temperate regions of the world, and has become important in international trade.

Mozzarella cheese has an unmatched demand from all over the world. The art of Mozzarella preparation seems to have been handed down and spread by the Benedictine Monks of the famous Castal San Vincenzo Abbey, in Molise.

Mozzarella cheese is a sliceable curd cheese originating from Italy. Traditionally speaking, this cheese is made from the milk of water buffaloes reared and herded in very few countries like Italy and Bulgaria.

Sensing the growing demand for Mozzarella cheese, it is now made from cow’s milk. It is ideal for pizza due to its characteristics of being firm,

Parmesan cheese, the most important one is the King of Cheese and the Cheese of the King. It is made from partially skimmed cow milk in a copper vat, as per traditional technology. The ripening of cheese takes a period of 12/24 months.

Blue cheese, the production of this cheese involves inoculating it with fine long skewers containing penicillium cultures which allow the mould to develop in the cheese.

Thus, giving it green-blue veins.

The cheesemaking process is more complicated, and although a few farmhouse cheesemakers remain, it has become largely a factory process.

Modern factory practice uses milk heat-treated in multi-plate or tubular heaters, to destroy unwanted organisms, present in the milk. After heat treatment (68◦C-72◦C) for 15 seconds. The milk is cooled to 29◦C and run into large ‘vats’ of 1000-2500 gallons’ capacity.

Indian dairy is rapidly growing in providing services to the Retail and Foodservice Industry with widespread local and national distribution networks. The dairy industry predicts a tremendous growth and demand for cheese in days to come.

Under listed are some of the variant cheeses that India proudly manufactures: Mozzarella Di Bufala/Bocconcini is made of 100% pure fresh water buffalo’s milk. The cheese is sold swimming in whey. A fresh cheese should be eaten within few days of manufacture.

Scamroza /Smoked Scamroza resembles Provolone. It is stretched curd cheese, rubbery with stringy texture, and is drier than Mozzarella. It has a bland milky taste. The Smoked Scamroza is more popular than the plain and is often used in pasta dishes and sandwiches.

Mozzarella for pizza is a low moisture mozzarella is naturally clean and mild, hence absence of a more intense cheese flavor.

Since some essential organisms are destroyed along with the undesirable ones, it is necessary to inoculate the milk with pure cultures of the desirable organisms. These cultures vary with different cheeses and are called ‘starters’. The use of these organisms is necessary to obtain the fermentation from which flavor and other characteristics of the cheese rise.

Rennet is added to the ‘startered’ milk to produce a coagulum. After rennet action for approximately 1 hour, the coagulum is cut into small pieces. This cutting releases the whey and the next process consists of cooking or ‘scalding’ these pieces of curd in the heated whey. The curd shrinks during this scalding upto 41◦C until it is deemed ready for further maturing.

The whey is removed and the curd matured by pilling it up in blocks in the vat. When certain acidity has developed, the curd is milled, salted, and then processed into steel forms or moulds to give it the required shape & size.

Emmental cheese is a Swiss cheese made from cow’s whole milk. The holes present in this cheese are due to gas released by the bacteria while processing.

Pizza cheese is a homogeneous blend of Mozzarella and English Cheddar. It melts marvelously on pizza, pasta & lasagna.

Processed Varieties with different ages of Cheddar

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are blended along with emulsifier and pasteurized to acquire processed cheese. It is a table cheese with a fine nutty taste and good melting tendency.

It can be cubed, sliced,or grated. Processed Cheddar as compared to the processed cheese, is harder in texture with fine grating.

Soft Processed Cheddar spreads quickly when melted. It can also be transformed into sauce form. If used on pizza with mozzarella, pizza remains fresh for longer phase & furnish extraordinary flavor.

Gouda cheese is a firm, smooth and supple with a scattering of small air bubbles. The flavor is sweet & fruity.

Mature Gouda (18 months plus) the texture of the cheese is granular and it can be grated. Gouda has a fat content of 40-45 per cent.

Cheese singles are available in different dimensions and thickness as per the demand of the user.

On demand, certain manufacturers prepare natural flavoured slices like garlic, cumin, black pepper.

English Cheddar has a smooth firm body, creamy taste and is typically matured for 3 to 6 months.

The smoked English Cheddar has a natural smoked aroma.

Some of the top Indian brands in cheese market are AMUL, Dairy Craft, Go Cheese, Britannia Industires, Prabhat with Verka, Nandini, Vijaya & Vadilal. These companies are focusing on increased production output The major consumption what the survey sees is by the four metropolitan cities, where Mumbai & Delhi alone credit themselves with 65%. The cheese industry is seeing an accelerated growth in double digit (15-20%p. a). Perceiving an increased demand of cheese consumption in India, several global brands such as Kraft cheese, Arla cheese, Fromageries Bel have started capturing Indian market.

Thus, imported cheese market is growing at an estimated 30%p.a. With around 3000 varieties of cheese in the global market, in India only 4045 variants are being marketed. Indian economy has a vast scope of global as well as domestic opportunity for overall growth in cheese industry.

Talking about the latest technological advancement, the machinery of cheese making plants are fully automated and customized. All the equipment in cheese production line carry a 3A sanitary standard certification. The entire cheese making plant is made of stainless steel that guarantees safeguard against rust and thus making it completely hygienic.

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As cheese is gaining its popularity in India, people are also becoming health conscious regarding the intake of cheese. With a good news to all, cheese itself is dietetic. Meaning, it is loaded with protein, calcium, phosphorus bio-available zinc contents and vitamin A, B2 and B12.

Moreover, the protein in ripe cheese is in a favourable form for digestion. Its high lactic acid content aids in digestion.Mild hard cheeses and fresh soft cheese (cottage) can be introduced into a child’s diet from age 6 months onwards.

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Indian cheese market at a glance: Indian cheese market estimated at $237M and expected to grow at 15-20% p.a.Imported cheese market is growing at an estimated 30% p.a. with varieties as Parmigano, Reggino, Stilton topping consumer preference.Current household penetration estimated at 7-8% with per capita consumption 200g/pp as opposed to global average of 700g/pp.

To conclude, cheese industry in this century has under gone a massive transformation and will see more progress in era to come.

Hard cheese (Cheddar) has very low lactose content, making it suitable for those who are lactose intolerant. Cottage cheese being low in calories (~100cal/100g), having low fat (1-4%) and high protein (~13%) is accepted as part of a healthful diet and is particularly popular in women.

The processed cheese constituents are available in disintegrated forms which are adapted to metabolic requirements. It also contains the required quality characteristics of a dietetic for certain diseases such as gastro-intestinal (gastritis, ulcers of the stomach and of duodenal), heart and vascular diseases diabetes mellitus and gout.

Nowadays, not only major cities but small cities and towns too are coming up with various outlets serving cheese gourmets on platters which is attracting younger generation. Seeing the popularity, cheese will slowly but steadily enter rural India. Thus, cheese has a scintillating future in Indian market which the dairy industry is looking up to.

Benefits of Goat Cheese

Goat cheese makes it favorable for people who suffer from allergies to dairy products made from cow's milk. Goat cheese contains less lactose than cow's milk and cheese, and contains smaller fat globules, that makes the cheese easier to digest.

Goat cheese is higher in vitamins D, K, thiamine and niacin. A serving of goat cheese has the same amount of vitamin A as cheddar cheese, with 6 percent the daily value.

Goat cheese is also high in the B vitamin riboflavin, as well as the mineral phosphorus. The body cannot produce vitamins and minerals on its own, so goat cheese provides a source of these micronutrients.

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Water bedding solutions: An innovative tool to combat heat stress

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eat stress has become a major issue in dairy cattle farming. To determine if cows are suffering from heat stress, scientists have developed a measure of the Pauline Guéganno, Export Area Manager, ambient temperature and Bioret Agri, France the relative humidity called the Temperature Humidity Index (THI). While cows can resist relatively low temperature (as much as -37°C), they will be negatively affected by heat stress beginning at about 23°C and further accentuated by increased humidity. Fig.1clearly shows that when the outside temperature is 24°C and the humidity is at 20%, we reach a THI of 68. This means that cows start suffering from heatstress. From this point, after only four hours, dairy cattle behaviour will start to change. To regulate temperature, they will reduce consumption in an effort to reduce metabolic heat. Also, breathing rhythm is accelerated which induces reduced rumination and loss of saliva.

Increased risk of sub-acidosis Decreased rumination combined with altered nourishment increases the risk of sub-acidosis as the imbalance between the level of CO2 and

the Aquatop cover, are inforced top cover with a water pouch that better envelopes cows and increases thermal exchange by dissipating heat continually. The company also developed the Aquastar mattress which combines all the advantages of the latex mattress with those of a waterbed.

Results demonstrate that when a cow lies down on either water solution, her heat is transmitted to the entire water pouch minimizing retained heat under the cow’s body with a cooling effect unlike the other traditional bedding systems.This unique feature will maintain greater cow comfort and avoid wasted internal energy consumption that reduces milk production.

bicarbonates decreases the rumen PH.Additionally, in the fight against heat stress, cows burn energy and, in doing so, generate a warming effect resulting in a vicious circle. In the battle to stay cool, energy is diverted from milk production and, even for a highly productive cow, heat stress will lead to milk production losses.

Studies conducted in Europe have shown that dairy cows suffer from heat as much as 6-15 hours per day in summer and that it can lead to losses of production of more than 3.5kg of milk per cow per day. In addition, a negative energy balance (related to the balance of thermoregulation) can affect the physical state of the animal.From a metabolic perspective, heat stress will lead to an accumulation of cellular radicals (potentially destructive chemical compositions), which can increase the risk of mastitis, permanent somatic cells in milk and reduced fertility. Indeed, it has been observed that on a medium to long term view, heat stress can cause reproduction problems such as reduced weight of newborn calves, a compromised immune system as natural immunity decreases and even a reduction of sperm quality.

Therefore, days or weeks after a heat stress period, cows are more vulnerable to illness and issues such as lameness.

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A cow with high milk production having experienced a heat stress index of 80 THI will be ‘internally damaged’ and have irreversible consequences.

Cows risk aninability to recover their initial production rate. This problem can limit or reduce the production and genetic potential of some animals.

Bioret Agri specialize in mattresses and comfort solutions and, in collaboration with the French Livestock Institute, is doing research to reduce the impact of heat stress where cows spend over half of their time: their bed.

used infrared cameras to determine the ‘hot spots’ on numerous existing solutions on an infrared picture taken on a regular rubber mat (Fig. 2), it can be clearly seen that the retained heat under the cow just as she leaves is not far from normal body temperature. Results with sand, straw and deep bedding were similar. They indisputably show, with the red surface following the cows’ shape, that when she lies on any traditional bedding, the heat is entrapped. This means that the mattress surface will not play a role in helping the cow combat heat stress.

Single waterpouch To avoid this inability to dissipate heat, Bioret Agri has worked on water mattress solutions with a single water pouch that supports the entire cow’s morphology and works much like a heat exchanger. In addition to its traditional single chamber waterbed, Bioret Agri has launched Fig. 2. Infrared picture of a regular rubber mat.

To investigate how mattresses can help reduce the impact of heat stress, Bioret Agri’s R&D department had to understand and prove to what extent traditional bedding methods such as sand, deep bedding, straw or even regular mats and mattresses insulate the cows. To do so, they went on farms and

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To illustrate this, the R&D department took infrared pictures of the Aquastar mattress (Fig. 3) and confirmed that the temperature is equal everywhere on the water pouch and helps to regulate the cow’s temperature.

In parallel they led tests with special temperature sensors placed directly on two distinct types of supports: single pouch water solution and regular on regular mattresses approaches peak temperature after only 20 minutes, while the water solution will approach its highest temperature after about 60-80 minutes (far lower and far more progressively).

Based on their studies, the temperature is nearly 6°C lower than other comfort products. Water keeps cows’ cooler contributing to maintaining milk production by reducing heat stress.

Additionally, other benefits of water make such mattresses resistant to deformation and, therefore, long-lasting, and more hygienic thanks to the proper slope and grooved design on the surface.

These innovative products can also be equipped with electronic components to measure the resting time and can fit any type of renovation of cubicles, such as individual floor mats, mattresses, or linear deep bedding. For continental climate countries where hotter temperatures remain higher (day and night), the Aquaclim mattress, is an excellent option to fight against heat stress.This innovative mattress integrates a temperature controlled channel system capable of recirculating water under the water pouch allowing a direct effect on the body temperature of the animal. This improves animal well-being and contributes to maintaining milk production by reducing heat stress.The water circulates in closed circuit channels in the mattress and ultimately passes through a heat exchanger to be cooled for the next passage. Thanks to a geothermal system, Bioret Agri can offer a cooling mattress using free energy that is good for the environment as no extra power is needed.

Fig. 3. Infrared picture of the Aquastar mattress

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The optimal bedding solution When we consider that cows spend an average of 12-14 hours lying per day and that the ideal outside temperature for a dairy cow should be between 5-15°C which, even in well insulated buildings, is difficult to preserve in some areas and some periods of time, finding the optimal bedding solution is something we should not neglect.The test results for the single water pouch solutions

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Heat stress is a complex and multi-faceted matter.

Bioret Agri’s water bedding solutions are new tools that can perfectly complement existing ventilation and drinkers etc.

Mondelez:Leader Of Indian Chocolate Industry While Nestle: Lacks Innovation

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estle’s chocolate division, which sells Kit-Kat and Munch amount other brands, had revenue of Rs. 1110 crore in calendar 2015. Just three years ago, Nestle’s chocolate business was three times that of the Italian company. Experts arrribute this to Ferrero’s differentiation strategy.

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ulf’s largest food and beverage exhibition which was held at DUBAI World Trade Centre from 26th February till 2nd March 2017, was the region’s largest food show exhibiting 5000 food exhibitors from120 countries with approx 1000 newcomers making their way in the food industry.

The Deputy Ruler of Dubai & UAE Minister of Finance , Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, inaugurated GULFOOD 2017.

Several Indian products including fresh fruits & vegetables, basmati rice, buffalo meat, processed fruits, wheat, cereals and dairy products were on display. The new zones included beverages, dairy, fats &oils, health, wellness, pulses & cereals, meat & poultry, power brands and world food.

Around 60 Indian exporters showcased their products at GULF FOOD 2017 under the banner of APEDA (Agriculture & Processed food products Export Development Authority). The APEDA pavilion was inaugurated by Commerce Secretary Ms.Rita Teaotia. The exports of APEDA products to UAE alone bags $1,371 million for the year 2015-16. India exports agricultural produce to more than 80 countries with revenue earned of $ 16,195.61 million for the year 2015-16.

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Ferrero discovered premiumizing products through innovation targeting end products. Italian co achieves feat nearly eight years after entry, experts attribute success to differentiated products and Nestle’s lack of innovation.

Nestle’s market share in chocolates has fallen from 29% in 2006 to 14% now, as per Euromonitor data.

Leaders such as Mondelez have introduced smaller stock keeping units (SKUs) at lower price points and increased penetration into rural India even as slowdown in consumption and the lowering of discretionary spend affect several food categories including chocolates.

Ferrero has been aggressively investing too-it passed a resolution to invest Rs. 375 crore in the Indian arm and double its authorized capital to Rs.1500 crore, as per latest regulatory fillings last submitted last week. Around nine months ago, it had raised its borrowing limit to Rs.2500 crore and said it will invest Rs.367 crore.

Mondelez dominates the segment with annual revenues of over Rs.6500 crore, which is about: • 6.9 folds higher than Ferrero • 5.8 folds higher than Nestle Ferrero’s annualized sales of nearly Rs.1600 crore Brands like Ferrero with no historic baggage have discovered and led that top down approach of premiumizing through innovation versus old school thinking of focusing mainly on low priced products-Devendra Chawla, President –FMCG and Brands-Future Group.

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Special importance was given to HALAL food products at the event where meat & poultry was concerned.

Gulfood 2017 highlighted its contribution towards UAE Food Bank, a royal step taken by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VP & Prime Minister & Ruler of Dubai.

The year 2017 has been declared as The Year of Giving. In this year the Food Bank will collect the excess food from hotels, supermarkets, restaurants and farms to reduce the wastage of food to feed the needy and poor in the emirates and overseas.

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Going in circles Development of the circular economy is central to the UK’s manufacturing future. With waste across the food chain high on their corporate social responsibility agenda, some manufacturers Richard Gueterbock

are taking a more Director of Clearfleau Ltd. circular approach by generating energy from biodegradable residues. In the dairy sector, a range of renewable energy options are available, with other solutions under development. Investing in more effective resource use and process sustainability can boost business performance.

The pressures faced by dairy processors include rising treatment and energy costs alongside the recent decline in milk prices. Processors provide a vital link between hard pressed dairy farmers and the retail market for milk products. Farmers not only depend on the purchasers of milk for their income, but also expect them to take a lead by setting sustainability targets.

The industry is aware of the need to reduce its environmental impact as well as its overheads. One option is bringing old effluent treatment works upto-date to take advantage of more efficient and more cost-effective technologies, to cut carbon dioxide emissions and to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Dairy processors also are expected to minimise risk of water-course pollution and must ensure effluent treatment works comply with tougher Environment Agency requirements.

Energy options With pressure mounting for more effective use of resources, what energy options are open to the dairy sector? Extracting bioenergy using anaerobic digestion from the dairy sector’s fatty residues is just one of a range of technologies available for

creamery sites. Companies can access green energy using biomass boilers, while roof mounted solar and off-site wind energy have a role. In future, hydrogen technologies and advanced energy storage systems should play a part in the more diverse energy mix on industrial sites.

Also for dairies there is potential for converting residues into biofuel for use in milk collection or distribution.

However, if we are to get widespread deployment of bio-energy on industrial sites, there is a need for a more creative approach from government, supporting more demonstration sites. It is helpful that both the recently published Brexit White Paper and Industrial Strategy Green Paper refer to carbon reduction and clean technologies. But actions from the key government departments don’t necessarily match up to the fine words in policy documents.

Lake District Creamery To illustrate what is possible based on existing technology, Lake District Creamery in Cumbria needed to improve the handling of its whey and facilitate clean water discharge to the nearby Ellen River. Replacing its existing aerobic treatment plant was a priority but the company also wanted a cost-effective and environ- mentally acceptable solution that reflected a sensitivity to its rural location. In innovative funding solution was required. First Milk’s project partner. Glasgowbased Renewables Unlimited, set up Lake District Biogas to fund the construction on its behalf and Clearfleau was contracted to design, construct, and operate the plant.

With off balance sheet funding and by outsourcing the plant’s operation and maintenance, First Milk is maintaining its focus on its core production activities. The plant is on track to provide its investors with a full return on their investment in about five years.

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A specialist in digestion of liquid residues with higher fats, oils, and grease content, UK-based Clearfleau designed the plant, the largest built on a European dairy processing site. It combines effluent treatment with bio-energy supply. The Environment Agency required the existing aerobic plant to be improved before building the bio energy plant.

Clearfleau’s on-site technology converts cheese residues into renewable heat and discharges clean water to the river. It also supplies biomethane to the creamery and local community. By converting unwanted biodegradable residues into biomethane, the plant has reduced the site’s environmental impact, minimising its carbon emissions.

Decentralised bio energy is enhancing the operation of the cheese creamery, while providing external investors with a better return on investment than is available for many renewable energy projects.

Treating 350,000 litres of whey permeate from the creamery, the plant can produce 16,000 cubic metres of biomethane daily.

Most of the biogas is fed to a membrane based upgrade unit, where it is converted into biomethane, with a comparable thermal value to North Sea gas. The liquid AD system achieves a reduction in chemical

The food industry will be looking at other more advanced solutions as technology evolves. This will include power generation and storage systems linked to hydrogen or fuel cell technologies. For example, an early fuel cell system treats bio-The

The Lake District Plant can generate 16,000 cubic metres of Biomethane daily.

oxygen demand load of greater than 95 per cent.

However, river discharge of cleansed water requires further post-digestion aerobic treatment, which takes place in the upgraded aerobic plant.

residues on the Gills Onions factory in California (installed in 2009 with significant grant funding). the evolution of a small-scale hydrogen based system that could be deployed in the dairy sector.

By feeding the upgraded biomethane into the national gas grid, the facility is supplying up to 25 per cent of the creamery’s energy requirements.

Sending the biogas to the grid benefits from the renewable heat incentive and ensures that 100 per cent of the energy value is utilised. When the biogas is converted to electricity, only 35 per cent of the energy content is converted into power, but this is still a valid option for smaller creamery sites.

Lake District Creamery is the only creamery site producing biomethane generated entirely from process residues, without including any

In the shorter term, for dairies there is potential for converting residues into bio- fuel for use in milk distribution to replace diesel. Milk collection trucks fueled by compressed biomethane or other bio fuels will reduce the dairy sector’s carbon footprint, as well as emissions from the milk transport network. We believe the British government should promote the wider use of biomethane for commercial vehicles, especially as the technology already exists.

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Advanced battery technology to store on-site energy (generated by digestion, wind or solar) will allow factory use at times of peak electricity costs. Use of lithium ion batteries will have a more immediate impact in the electric vehicle sector, but storage solutions on factory sites will help balance renewable energy supply with demand.

There is also interest in novel systems for the generation of zero-carbon power, linked to advanced battery technologies.

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On-site energy Biomass boilers are an option for sites that require large volumes of heat (several distillery sites have installed advanced biomass systems). One of Clearfleau’s distillery projects will be built alongside a biomass boiler and the site will use the heat from both sources. Also, deployment of hydro technology to generate heat rather than power could have potential on distillery sites.

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supplies and on roof systems may be used more widely in future.

non-dairy feed- stocks. The technology provides a sustainable solution for fatty, liquid process residues. We expect several other UK dairy sites to install similar plants on the next few years’ Onsite digestion may be considered alongside other compatible technologies to further reduce fossil fuel use and carbon emissions. Some industrial sites are using solar solutions to boost energy

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It is hard to predict which novel technologies will attain commercial viability and deployment on milk processing sites. Nevertheless, the dairy industry could benefit from investing in bioenergy on milk processing sites, large and small, today. Access to heat or power, with lower emissions and better use of residues, can lead the transition to a more circular economy.

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Interpack arrives in Düsseldorf from 4-10 May for what promises to be end to-end coverage of the packaging industry

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only packaging machinery manufacturer on the shortlist and was nominated in the category ‘successful innovations’. IMA Erca delivered the model EF 825 form, fill and seal machine with Open Mould technology that was needed to meet the specific requirements of Danone’s newly developed yogurt cups. Their particularly high quality appearance is achieved by embossing the Danone logo on the bottom of a transparent, deepdrawn plastic cup and decorating the cup with a partial shrink sleeve after it has been filled and sealed.

here’s not much bigger in the world of packaging. Interpack happens once every three-year exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany, and in 2014, it saw nearly 175,000 visitors from 163 countries inspecting what the 2,670 exhibitors that hailed from 60 countries had to offer. The accompanying “components – special trade fair by Interpack”, held for the first time in 2014 and taking place again with a revised concept at Interpack 2017, also offers insights into the latest production technologies.

“Components” is mainly targeting component suppliers to the packaging industry and companies offering drive, control and sensor equipment, products for industrial image processing, materials handling equipment, industrial software and communication, and complete automation systems for packaging machines.

Interpack promises to be a showcase of packaging and equipment to make the products. You might not get around to all the halls, but this may give you a head start of which one to start looking in for new dairy ideas.

BASF BASF is focusing on packaging products that reduce the environmental and ecological footprint while still being an economically viable option. For example, Ultra-mid Flex F38L is an entirely new, partly bio based copolyamide. The softness and extremely high transparency allows manufacturers to use a polyamide for vacuum skin packaging. The product is immediately soft without conditioning and has 50 per cent less water uptake than polyamid 6. Furthermore, the bubble stability and BUR (blow-up ratio) can be significantly increased because of the higher melt stability. The new grade can be used for cheese ripening bags or modified atmosphere packaging.

Hall 10, Stand B43 Danapak Flexibles A new packaging solution from Danapak Flexibles allows ultra-filtered white cheese to be

left longer before salt is added to the product. The new method simplifies the production process.

The product is an environmentally friendly permeable membrane based on pure parchment, which is punched so it has short sides, and is folded up on the side when it is placed in the container. A sealing lacquer on the reverse side can be punctually sealed on the inner side of the container over the cheese. Thus, it creates a tray, which hovers over the cheese and where the dosed salt can be placed without flowing to the sides. Manufacturers of UF white cheese do not need to wait until the cheese coagulates, and save both time and costs. At the same time, they are in control of when the salt gets into contact with the brine around the hard cheese, as the container is simply turned upside down.

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IMA Erca Danone Russia put IMA Erca on the shortlist for its supplier awards, placing it among the top 45 of its 6,000 suppliers. IMA Erca is the

Linx Printing Technologies Underlining Linx’s ongoing commitment to continual and proactive new product development, highlights on-stand will include the newest additions to the company’s continuous ink jet (CIJ) printers and laser coders. The full range of Linx laser coding solutions will be on display including the newly launched Linx CSL10 and CSL30.

These coders have opened the benefits of laser to more companies and applications. Key benefits are even faster printing speeds over previous models and greater versatility, making the coders ideal for a wider variety of products, along with quicker and easier installation and set-up that helps to make laser coding simpler and more accessible, the company says.

Mayr-Melnhof International Mayr-Melnhof Packaging International of Austria is bringing Californian pack- aging manufacturers EcoTensil’s spoon to Europe. This is integrated into the packaging and consists of card that due to a special coating boasts that pleasant feel on the tongue found with coffee-to- go cups or ice cream tubs, not tasting like cardboard at all. The spoon is folded into the lid of the ice cream, muesli, yogurt or frozen yogurt, salad, dip, or pesto and can be disposed of ecologically after use.

Due to the material used it is lighter than the familiar plastic spoon and takes up less space in transportation. 5,000 EcoSpoons occupy the space of about 1,000 of their conventional plastic counterparts, the company says.

wide range of products and packs such as trays, boxes, pots, and thermoformed packs.

In Düsseldorf, Multivac will be integrating one model from this series into a G700 tray sealer line for C labelling. This type of labelling is used for example to provide optimum presentation of trays on the supermarket shelf, but it can also be used for securing the tray lid or ensuring that a folding tray does not spring open. The label is applied over three sides of the pack, and the labeller on the exhibition stand in Hall 5 will be showing labelling on the top, leading edge and bottom of the tray.

Optima Optima will be presenting innovations at Interpack 2017 under the motto “Mission Total Care.” New HMI technologies, software tools and sensor technology signal the start of a future era of highly efficient packaging processes and comprehensive life cycle management. This can be experienced by taking a futuristic journey using a multimedia shuttle at the booth.

Optima will also feature new machine solutions, turnkey systems and Project Zero, a machine that adapts to the requirements with optimised format change time and a platform offering a completely modular design. The operator specifies designs and data, the machine handles the rest. The different packagings are produced inline. Furthermore, new sensor technology leads to process stability that is once again significantly increased, the company notes.

Taghleef Industries Taghleef Industries offers a variety of food packaging films that are suitable for the food industry for applications such as dairy, ice cream novelty, fresh cut produce and coffee.

These films are engineered to satisfy the highest customer demands in terms of high speed packaging performance, environmental impact, shelf-life extension and barrier properties, consumer appeal and food safety. The film range includes transparent, matte, solid white, white voided and

Multivac Multivac Marking & Inspection will be demonstrating the capabilities of its labelling solutions and how they can be integrated into T300 and G700 tray sealer lines. It will also be focusing on conveyor belt labellers. One example of this is the Baseline L300, an entry level model for simple or less sophisticated labelling tasks.

The L310 is capable of handling higher outputs and more complex labelling requirements for a

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Taghleef Industries also supplies BoPP films in a variety of substrates, including media, multiwall bags, personal care, building products and board lamination. These films offer performance characteristics to meet the needs of customer specifications for intended market applications.

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Elanpro Launches EKG Series A new range of chest freezers for efficient cooling with optimum energy balance

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lanpro, India’s leading commercial refrigeration company, unveiled Elanpro EKG Series – a new range of Glass Top Chest Freezers. Boasting of eye catching style and cutting edge technology with economical solution for safe storage of perishable goods,EKG Series is packed with latest innovation. ELANPRO has launched EKG Series in seven variants available in the capacity range of 150 to 625 liters in a price range starting from Rs. 18000 onwards.

The newly launched ELANPRO EKG Series comes exclusively with best-in-class 82 mm insulation ensuring minimum heat ingress and low power consumption. This feature is chiefly relevant for the Indian market conditions as it maintains the interior temperature of -30°C even without electricity for as long as 5-6 hours in case of power failure. The deep and quick freezing facility also helps cool quicker thus consuming less electricity. Another prime feature of the new offering by Elanpro is the interior LED light.

The sleek glass panel of the freezer illuminates allowing an easy access to compartment and a vivacious presentation of products. Some of the other features include mechanical temperature control with power indicator and high pressure foam cover for efficient temperature preservation.

The freezer has wheels for easy portability.

ELANPRO EKG Series is equipped with tropicalized compressor to give it a wide climate

zone design suited especially for Indian weather conditions. The models are available in 150L, 250L, 300L, 400L and 625L capacity and have a temperature range between -16 degrees to -30 degrees centigrade.

Speaking at the occasion Mr. Ranjan Jain, Managing Director, Elanpro said, “This new range of chest freezers marks a step forward our endeavor to bring in innovative solutions to the Indian market and offer products basis the changing demand of our consumers.Glass top chest display freezers are ideal where customer browsing is encouraged. With a wide range of capacities, we aim at providing a user-friendly energy-efficient product to the retail sector.”

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Milk Foods Ltd, said, “Avvatar is India's first whey protein powder which reaches the consumer in the freshest form.”

“The product will be sold in three phases. Phase one is limited to eight metro cities covering the northwestern region, with the distribution in Mumbai and Pune initially,” he added.

“In the second phase, we will expand to 30 cities, and in phase three it will expand pan-India and the product will be exported to the neighbouring countries and the Middle-Eastern region,” Israni stated.

According to Zion Market Research, the global whey protein market is expected to witness a

Chinese demand for Austrian products

EKG Series caters to storage, preservation and display requirements of ice creams, frozen veg, frozen fruit, frozen desserts and more. The new range by ELANPRO also offers best-in-class performance in energy efficiency. With high performance and user friendly features, Elanpro EKG Series aims at meeting the demands of high sub continental temperatures.All the models are imported and will be available at ELANPRO Experience Centers across India.

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he Chinese market is currently experiencing a steadily growing demand for high-quality Austrian dairy products, which is expected to grow in the future, as per SalzburgMilch. Austrian Agricultural Minister Andrä Rupprechter visited SalzburgMilch’s dairy in Lamprechtshausen along with his Chinese colleague Han Changfu in January.

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Drinking up dairy equally important.

The brand itself ties in with a developing interest in all things Scandinavian, says Louise Haggar, brand manager for Arla skyr.

“It’s been a massive trend, in interior design, clothing, and food.

We’ve followed the flavour trends.”

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ariy giant Arla, launched the Arla skyr drinking yoghurts, a new addition to its Icelandic style yoghurt range in February 2016. Four flavours are currently offered: Mango & Passionfruit, Blueberry & Blackcurrant, Apple & Raspberry, and Sour Cherry. “The yogurt drinks available in 350ml bottles are a healthy snack made from naturally sourced ingredients, which are fat free, reduced sugar and high in protein,” the company says.

Sam Dolan, senior brand manager at Arla Foods, noted: “We were over the moon with Arla skyr’s performance in 2015, with the product beating all expectations. It was a real category success story - we believe consumers are starting to recognise that healthy choices shouldn’t be solely based on low-fat and that in fact sugar levels are

Haggar notes that over the last year, the move towards more protein has gained traction, which has also benefited the drinking yogurt line.

“Carbonated soft drinks have been declining, while coffee drinks are on the increase, and it has been benefiting yogurt – it’s a natural progression.”

On the go Traditionally, yogurt has not been the easiest product to consume while moving, Haggar admits.

“However, with drinking yogurts, you can enjoy it in a convenient format, for breakfast, at the office, or as a snack,” she says. “We have received fantastic feedback from consumers about them drinking the product on the train or on the bus.

They get all the benefits of yogurt but can travel with the drink.”

A key issue for dairy beverages overall is getting consumers to think of dairy drinks as something other than milkshakes, which have often been perceived as being high in sugar content.

Consumers now know the difference between natural sugars and added ones, and this knowledge is prevalent within the drinks area.

We’re seeing more health-conscious consumers overall.

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The skyr products are currently listed in Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s supermarkets, but as they gain traction, expansion is on the cards. There are also “flavour refreshment developments” underway, Haggar notes.

“It is a challenge to ensure that dairy drinks share the space in the chilled drinks aisles where flavoured waters and other soft drinks are,” she says. “We have to make sure we’re in that fixture.”

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Challenges and opportunities for the dairy sector

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very thoughtprovoking and interesting presentation by David Hughes, Emeritus Professor of Food Marketing, Imperial Prof. David Hughes International College London was Speaker Imperial College-London recently given at the Biomin World Nutrition Forum in Vancouver, Canada.

Here we highlight some of the key points from this presentation, which was entitled ‘Driving the protein economy: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities’.

In this context, products which can claim some or all the following should be able to command premium prices: ● Free range. ● Slow grown. ● Happy/contented. ● Grass fed. ● Vegetarian-fed. ● Aberdeen Angus. ● Rare breed. ● Produced by Farmer Jones. ● Organic. ● Omega-3-rich. ● Local.

The global human population will increase by two billion over the next 30 years with most of the growth coming from emerging countries.

Words like chicken, beef, pork, and fish are commodity nouns which earn commodity prices and still give a decent return to the lowest cost producers. However, attractive margins are in the adjectives, such as ‘Farmer Jones’ Scottish, grassfed, Aberdeen Angus beef’. Consumers want their purchases to be‘ free from’and prefer to see these specified, rather than to just be told that their purchase is additive free. Examples here include:

This, coupled with higher incomes, will put pressure on the world’s protein suppliers, with poultry, pork and eggs growing the fastest.

Farmed fish and seafoods will more than compensate for their decline in caught wild products.

In the short term, prices will be volatile but, hopefully, will be more stable in the longer term.

While in many countries meat consumption is increasing, there are countries in the developed world where consumption, especially of beef and pork, is static or even in decline.

Recent research from the UK highlights that this is mainly due to health concerns (58% of respondents), to save money in difficult times (21%), animal welfare concerns (20%), food safety (19%) and worries about the environmental impact of livestock farming (11%).

The ‘processed meat and red meat is bad for your health’ lobby is controversial but fortunately is currently getting lost in the cacophony of media noise about what is good or bad for you!

Green credentials Prof Hughes sees well financed start-up companies, mainly based in California, that are launching analogue meat and egg products as a real medium-to-long-term threat.These non-meat proteins will compete on their taste, price, and green credentials.

Historically, price, taste and convenience have been the consumers’ principal drivers but they are now looking increasingly at product attributes, such as place and method of production, provenance and background story, care of the locale conomy, animal and worker welfare, environmental impact, and over all sustainability.

Recent surveys suggest that there is a real willingness to pay more for products with strong environmental credentials.

The‘ greenbar’ is rising all the time and the challenge for the food industry is to meet or, better still, to exceed consumer expectations and there by gain their long-term loyalty. This is not just a Western phenomenon and Asian consumers are now increasingly giving their custom to environmentally friendly (especially with regards to packaging waste that is recyclable)and concern about social values and the health of their customers.

The big challenge in the modern-day production of animal products for human consumption is to define exactly which attributes consumers’ value and are willing to pay for.

● Antibiotic-free. ● Hormone-free. ● Additive-free. ● Campylobacter-free. ● Salmonella-free. ● GMO-free. ● Gluten-free.

Nowadays, the expectation is that these will be provided as a matter of course and with no additional premium price.

The use of antibiotics An other issue of the day is the use of antibiotics to improve growth efficiency. Major groups like McDonalds and Yum(owners of KFC)are continually responding to pressure from their shareholders and special interest groups to remove the routine usage of antibiotics.

The global interest was highlighted in May 2016 when the Economist magazine identified the livestock sector as a particular culprit in the overuse of antibiotics in an article entitled ‘When The Drugs Don’t Work’. In China and some other emerging countries food safety is a major issue and there is a pervasive concern about food chain integrity.

Looking at this positively, consumer concerns and consumer demand for food with compelling stories creates substantial commercial opportunities for companies who understand the consumer, have high integrity processes and closely managed supply chains with trusted partners.On the down side, many of the product attributes being sought by the consumer can not be easily detected and this provides opportunities for food fraud.

Delivery of promises Companies must be able to deliver the promises they give! In recent times, successful products have been: ● Really tasty and ‘more-ish’. ● Convenient. ● Given strong health and well- being hooks. ● Wrapped up with strong social values. ● Made up from a few simple, natural ingredients ● Linked with a super ingredient, for example, omega-3. ● Indulgent, but affordable. ● In a format that can be eaten as a snack.

The traditional three meals a day eating pattern is breaking down, some might say it has already broken down! Snacking or the pattern of eating frequent, smaller meals is emerging. Consumers

are therefore looking for solutions and avoiding problems.

Chunks of meat are now perceived as problematic.

Historically, the answer to the question “what shall we have for dinner tonight” was pork or chicken; nowadays it is much more likely to be a Chinese, Italian, or Indian meal!

This change brings opportunities to add value to meat and, todate, the poultry industry has responded quickly to this challenge.

The pork industry has long had such an orientation with products like ham, bacon, salami, and sausages.The global salmon market has opportunities to follow with the universal attraction to sushi. Beef and lamb need to urgently focus in a similar fashion.

with the efficiency of conversion of feed nitrogen into milk protein being only 25-30%. Thus, any improvement in efficiency of this conversion benefits both production and the environment.

Results from several in vitro studies have been variable depending on the essential oil, its dose and the in vitro technique used.

There have been several studies into in vivo effects of essential oils on ruminal nitrogen metabolism.

For example, some studies have shown no effect on ruminal protein degradation and ammonia concentration from feeding cinnamon oil, cinnamaldehyde or eugenol but it has been shown that pulse dosing oregano leaves increased ruminal ammonia concentration. Other research shows the opposite effect.

Studies have also looked at the potential of essential oils to inhibit ruminal methane production. Again, effects varied with type and dose of essential oil used; one of the more pronounced effects being with thymol/thyme oil or cinnamaldehyde. Overall a variable feast!

This provides us with various challenges since much of the research is of a short-term nature and done using in vitro systems. Based on results to date it appears that phenolic compounds, such as thymol, eugenol and carvacrol, or essential oils containing a high concentration of these, cinnamon and its main component cinnamaldehyde, garlic essential oil and its derivatives, especially diallyl disulphide, and some other essential oils may be effective, at least in vitro, of improving nitrogen and energy

One of the enigmes of the global meat protein industry is that the fish and seafood sector rarely considers that it competes with the land based meat sector and vice versa–yet, to the consumer,meat, fish, eggs, and plant derived proteins are substitutes for each other. Globally, fish and seafood are in the prime position with poultry and pork sharing second place. If we take the dominant country China out of the equation, then fish and seafood share prime position with poultry.

In much of Asia and Africa ,fish is the major source of protein for consumers and the big global battle is that affordable meat protein lies between‘ industrially produced’ fish and poultry meat. Farmed fish such as tilapia and pangasius are highly efficient converters of feed when it comes to producing meat, with chicken next.

The challenge for pork, and especially beef and lamb producers, is to distance their products from the intense competition between the‘white meats’.

Challenge for the future In addition, all meat producers should keep a close eye on the emerging meat analogues that seem to be getting a toehold, particularly in the developed markets.

Their much-improved taste and ‘mouth feel’ which is similar to meat, plus their perceived environmental credentials may herald a bright future and make them serious competition to real meats.

Our global meat industry has a great future, which is full of challenges.

Essential oil feed additives ChaoukiBechaar, from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, looked at the effects of essential oils on rumen microbial fermentation among other issues. Ruminants are relatively inefficient users of dietary nitrogen

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ARTICLE bacteria, milk production will drop from 7kg to 2kg per milking within 12 hours of inoculating the coliforms and then continue to decline to <1kg per milking by 60 hours as per James S. Culor of the University of California, USA.Milk production remains low for 180 hours and then may begin to gradually increase. Over a period of days to weeks’, milk production may attain about a third of its original volume and may return to its pre- inoculation level in several weeks to months.

The somatic cell count will increase by one or two logs over the 12 hours post inoculation and higher counts over 24 hours. This adversely affects milk quality.

Coliform multiplication and endotoxin release will cause the release of inflammatory mediators including interleukin-1, interferon, complement cascade, tumour necrosis factor, colony stimulating factors and platelet activating factor.

This can result in a lysis of the corpus luteum if it is in its fifth to 17th day of development. If the foetus is in its first trimester coliform mastitis commonly causes abortion, while in the third trimester it can cause premature calvings and the production of a weak calf.

With coliform mastitis treatment is invariably only moderately successful.Some interesting points to reflect on are that there are over 3,500 different coliform serotypes and at any one time there will be at least 15 of these on a dairy farm.Excellent hygiene and suitable vaccination can reduce the incidence and severity of coliform mastitis.

Biomin’s three S’s Eric Erber, the Founder of Biomin in his address to the Forum explained the three S’s as the means of executing the group’s vision of ‘innovative and sustainable solutions for the safety and quality of

However, the use of essential oils in ruminant nutrition could be limited for several reasons including: • The levels required of essential oils to alter ruminal fermentation in vitro are too high to use in vitro for several reasons including adverse effects on palatability.

• Beneficial effects on fermentation offset by overall inhibition of feed digestion.

• Rumen microbes have been shown to be able to adapt to essential oils.

• To date, little is known about the ultimate fate of essential oils in the digestive tract.

• Although several essential oils are considered to be safe, some research has shown that some of these compounds can be toxic. For example, sulphur containing compounds in garlic and onion exert haemotoxic effects in beef cattle.

Feed-quality and mycotoxins Dairy profitability is very dependent on good nutrition and health and so it is important to consider the negative role of anti-nutritional compounds in the feed. Among these are the mycotoxins which are toxic secondary metabolites produced by moulds and they should be closely monitored to minimise their effects on animal health and productivity.

There are hundreds of known mycotoxins, but few of them have been extensively researched and even fewer have good methods of analysis that are commercially available.

In his presentation on this topic Duarte Diaz from the University of Arizona in the USA focused on several facets, including safe levels of mycotoxins, lack of research, sensitivity differences between animal species, imprecise sampling and analysis, the large number of myctoxins, interactions between mycotoxins and interactions with stressors.

Interestingly, field toxicities appear to be more severe than those produced in the laboratory and naturally contaminated feed-stuffs are more toxic than feeds contaminated with the same level of pure mycotoxin.

This suggests the presence of other unidentified mycotoxins in contaminated feeds and that mycotoxin interactions are extremely important.

For example, Fusarium species can produce multiple mycotoxins. Therefore, because animals are fed a variety of feedstuffs and because many moulds produce an array of mycotoxins, many mycotoxin interactions are possible.

Mycotoxin interactions also make it difficult to determine se levels for individual mycotoxins.

Animals subjected to production or environmental stresses often show more pronounced symptoms and a good example of this is heat stress.

Research has also suggested that stress plays a significant role in the susceptibility of cows to low levels of mycotoxins. Known dietary factors that interact with mycotoxins include nutrients such as fat, protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals.

Mycotoxin effects vary by species but they may be moderated by factors such as age, sex, duration of exposure and environmental and production stressors.Overall health and immune status will affect the animal’s ability to cope and this is especially the case with those mycotoxins with immuno suppressive properties.

Diagnosis can be difficult as a mycotoxicosis can be secondary to an opportunistic disease occurrence.

In such situations, the disease is usually correctly diagnosed and the mycotoxin involvement, often in an immunosuppressive role, is overlooked.

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food and food production for a growing world population’.

The three S’s are Science, Service, and Speed.

• Science – science and innovation have always been the driver of growth for Biomin. In 1992 Biomin was the first to launch a product to deactivate mycotoxins by means of biotransformation. The first ever product with the claim of enzymatic degradation was approved by the EU authorities in 2014.

• Service – a company based on science cannot forget about the real needs of customers. Biomin’s most prominent service is its global mycotoxin survey which has become the gold standard and has been offered since 2004 Biomin continuously trains its sales team to be competent in technical issues and provides relevant, technical information to the industry through various channels.

• Speed – when FedEx provided a parcel service in the US it had the motto “if we don’t get it there, we don’t get paid” as they realised that speed could be the foundation of business success.

The key to Biomin’s success is to have speed as an iron discipline throughout its transport chain.

This is offered through a worldwide network of production and logistic hubs.

Speed is also of essence when something goes wrong and staff are trained to respond as fast as possible to find a quick solution.Speed is necessary in communication. Their worldwide video conference system was installed 10 years ago, and enables fast and easy communication.

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Modern Packaging is more intuitive than ever, says Melanie Streich

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odern packages think for themselves, remind us, extend shelf life, can be heated at the press of a button, and influence our senses with their appearance, odour and feel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and some of them can even speak. What packages in the food sector are capable of today goes far beyond their original purpose of protecting foods.

Packages must perform numerous feats simultaneously: meet the needs of marketing and sales, comply with safety and hygiene regulations, and satisfy such consumer requirements as sustainability and easier handling while keeping the cost of production, transport, and storage low.

Thanks to the latest machines with automated sensor and microprocessor controlled drive technology, coupled with innovative materials that can be produced and disposed of sustainably, the packaging industry has succeeded in converting a 6,000-year-old idea into a high-tech product.

Protection first The primary purpose of each package, that of protecting its contents during transport and storage, remains unchanged. Packages prevent contamination and damage and protect foods from harmful environmental influences such as light, oxygen and moisture. They provide protection

from spoilage due to microorganisms and prevent the loss of flavour or vitamins.

Up to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, says the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, is lost each year worldwide. In some cases, fresh goods spoil during transport, are not consumed in time or are deemed unsaleable because they fall short of the given standards.

And often enough, still edible food is discarded by consumers because the sell-by date has expired.

For over six years now, the Save Food initiative of the FAO has addressed this overall issue, the

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environmental programme of the United Nations Environment Programme and Messe DĂźsseldorf, in cooperation with global companies, organisations and research institutes. Their joint goal is to devise solutions to prevent food loss and wastage along the value chain. This involves making suitable infrastructure available, re-examining and modifying standards for packaging, raising awareness and working on the package itself.

Nothing without hygiene When it comes to food packaging, hygiene is top priority, and sensitive products are subject to Contd on Pg no, 40

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extreme standards of hygiene. Complete highperformance production lines focus not only on performance, flexibility, and product quality, but also on the interfaces because these have a huge bearing on productivity.

The responsibility for food safety lies with the manufacturer itself. In-plant hygiene controls are strongly advised, but even more important is the exclusion of possible hygiene traps from the outset.

Covering everything from comprehensive hygiene design and effortlessly cleanable components to sterilisation of the ambient air with shortwave UV radiation, highly advanced equipment delivers the highest standards of hygiene.

The skin pack, a two-component package consisting of polypropylene or crystalline polyethylene terephthalate tray sealed with a skin film, has become increasingly prominent in some sectors. “It’s possible to extend product shelf life considerably with vacuum skin packaging,” explains Stefan Dangel, sales and marketing manager at Sealpac. Technologies can not fail to encounter nanotechnology, and printed and organic electronics. Intelligent wrappers that are capable of identifying and affecting the degree of food freshness in a controlled fashion are now anything but utopian.

Consumers mainly associate sustainability with recycling and disposal. The development of deposit and recycling systems and, no less importantly, clear targets have led to a strong increase in package recycling in the last few years. Recycling is on the advance, particularly in Europe, and all EU states are to recycle half of their domestic waste by 2020.

In the assessment of package sustainability, both the material used and its quantity are important as well as package size in relation to its contents.

In the industry, there is a clear trend towards using renewable resources. Used instead of conventional materials with a view to diminishing the carbon footprint, these are often hailed as extra sustainable. However, studies show that precisely these conventional materials, eg, classical plastics, yield environmental benefits when a product’s

entire life cycle is considered because of efficient recycling systems, for example. Ultimately, what counts as the most sustainable solution calls for a comprehensive consideration of the case in question, taking account of the several factors at all stages in the value chain.

Packaged 4.0 In addition to consumer expectations, the packaging industry is also exposed to the requirements of its customers. Modern lines are capable of not only autonomously supplying information on process and system states, but also communicating with each other and independently correcting processes where necessary.

“Intelligent products then individually control their own production process. And this is not all: thanks to communication throughout the value

chain, a product’s life cycle becomes continuously traceable. New business models are possible,” explains Hartmut Rauen, deputy executive director of Germany’s Mechanical Engineering Industry Association.

Packaging is indispensable for modern society.

This applies especially to foods and becomes apparent where it is lacking – in developing countries. Food often spoils due to the lack or inadequacy of packaging for transport before it reaches the consumer. In the industrialized nations, on the other hand, a package not only has to protect, but it should look good as well. It must stand out on supermarket shelves, because many customers only decide while shopping which product lands in the basket.

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Active packages control the moisture level, prevent the proliferation of germs, and even kill them by using absorbers, for instance. “The idea is to develop a package that can take up and regulate moisture,” says Dr Cornelia Stramm of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising.

Whether food is still edible can be rendered visible by the special sensors of modern packages.

These react when certain substances or gases are released and indicate this with a change in colour and fluorescence. The state of the food is then evident at a glance. One of the most frequent causes of food spoilage is breaks in the cooling chain. Intelligent time-temperature indicators can indicate such discontinuities, usually with a colour change.

Sustainability as basic Consumers expect a great deal of their food packages. Demands of the packaging industry cover not only safety and hygiene, but also sustainability.

Advisory Board - 'Dairy Times' Mr. R.P. Banerjee SSP Pvt. Ltd. Faridabad

Mr. B.M Vyas Former M.D Amul Anand

Mr. Devendra Bhai Shah Chairman, Parag Milk Food Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai

Mr. H R Dave Deputy M.D NABARD, Mumbai

Dr. B.N. Mathur Former Director, NDRI, Karnal

Dr. J.B. Prajapati Principal & Dean, SMC College of Dairy Science Anand,

Dr. G.S. Rajorhia Former Principal Scientist, NDRI, Karnal

Mr. Vivek Nirmal M.D Prabbhat Dairy Ltd. Mumbai

Mr. V.K. Ghoda Sr. Consultant, Perfect Solution, Vadodara

Dr. K.R. Rao Former CGM, NABARD, Hydrabad

Mr. Dileep Dravid M.D Agro Dairy & Food Consultancy Services, Anand

Dr. Ashok Patel Former Principal Scientist & Head, Dairy Technology, NDRI, Karnal EDITOR IN CHIEF Dr. J.V.Parekh

Dr. Harsev Singh CEO Reliance Industries,

Ms. Racheline Levi Team Expert, Adepta, France

Mr. Subhash Vaidya CEO Dairy Tech Consultancy Services, Mumbai

Mr, Vijay Jailkhani Team Leader, Schreiber dynamix Dairies Pvt. Ltd. Baramati Dr. Trevor Tomkins President.Venture Dairy U.S.A

Dr. Satish Kulkarni Consultant, Bangalore

Dr. Mukund Naware Consulant, Mumbai Dr. Suresh B. Gokhale Director (Research) BAIF Uruli Kanchan, Pune Mr. Nitin Jain Aurum Equity Partners Gudgaon.

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