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heme of the conference is“Climate Change and Dairying”.

It is expected that around 1500 – 2000 delegates including milk producers, scientists, technocrats and CEO’s of the dairy plants will attend the event.

During the conference, experts in the field of dairy farming, animal husbandry, animal nutrition and milk processing, will share their experiences in these streams of dairying and their impact on the climate change.

There are bigger challenges coming. Climate change in Dairying. The projected rise in temperature coupled with variability in precipitation is likely to aggravate the heat stress in dairy animals impacting their productive and reproductive performance thus affecting the vulnerable sections of milk producers. In addition, the impact on health of animals is yet to be fully understood. There could be even more pressure on

feed and fodder.

It is estimated that the milk production in India is likely to reduce by 3 million tonnes per annum by 2020, solely due to effects of global warming.

Whereas, the demand for milk & milk products is going to increase up to 200 million tones. If our dairy industry has to pursue a responsible growth path, we need to ensure that practices and processes that minimize the impact of this growth on the environment, are adopted by processors, for example, the judicious use of water in milk processing, the use of renewable energy, improving efficiency in energy generation and use, waste and effluent management and measures to mitigate the impact of carbon emissions.This is a matter of great concern for the dairy industry in India. IDA has hence decided to deliberate upon ‘Climate Change and Dairy’, at the 45th Dairy Industry Conference.

The concurrent event of exhibition of dairy equipment, IIDE 2017, will showcase the technological developments in the Milk processing, packaging and products manufacturing.

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Modi inaugurates India’s Largest Cheese Plant in Gujarat

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rime Minister Narendra Modi visited Gujarat and inaugurated India’s largest cheese plant in Banaskantha. He also addressed a farmers’ rally after inauguration, where he spoke about demonetization. He arrived at Ahmedabad airport at 10:00 am where Governor O.P. Kohli welcomed him and took helicopter to reach Deesa.

Modi inaugurated India’s largest cheese factory in

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Gujarat where he addressed a huge gathering. At the rally, PM mentioned how drip irrigation widely benefitted farmers in the north Gujarat region. The farmers here turned to dairy and animal husbandry.

This was beneficial for the farmers.” Modi said that along with ‘Shwet Kranti’ there is also a ‘Sweet Kranti’ as people are now being trained about honey products.

The Government has been successful in weakening the hands of terrorists and those in fake currency rackets. “Government has always said we are ready to debate. I am not being allowed to speak in Lok Sabha so I am speaking in the Jan Sabha.”

PM Modi stated Union Government is working for welfare of the poor. He encouraged people for e-banking and e-wallets. He said India wants progress and for that evils of corruption and black money must end.

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Dairy fund & easier flow of credit will help millions, accelerate farmer drive The Budget is holistic in approach – its aim is to truly transform India. It stands out in keeping the government’s commitment towards cooperative federalism.

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educing the ceiling for cash donation to political parties to just Rs 2,000 is one of the most commendable moves made in this Singh Chouhan Shivraj Union Budget.

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Digital accounting of amounts larger than Rs 2,000 will help bring about transparency in politics, laying to rest doubts often raised about political funding. I consider Budget 2017 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as truly historical in this regard said Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

The Budget is holistic in approach – its aim is to

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truly transform India. The Budget stands out in keeping the government’s commitment towards cooperative federalism. I feel the Budget’s many provisions will strengthen states and the federal system. It has taken care of each segment and is reflective of the vision of collective development.

The last budget, in my view, had taken very radical steps for the welfare of farmers. These, as the Centre has now committed in this budget, will further be strengthened. This must be welcomed.

For example, following the budgetary proposals implementation from last year, the state’s milk production has increased tremendously. The Centre continues to build on these positive moves with incremental steps. Dairy processing Cont on Pg no. 7

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PRICE LIST

Pricing Trends in Dairy Products: 2016 Domestic milk and milk Products Price:

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Ice Make Refrigeration Pvt. Ltd Acquires Bharat Refrigerations Pvt Ltd

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Schedule of 45th Dairy Industry Conference, Mumbai Day 1, Thursday, 16 February 2017 TS 1, 1430-1600 Farmers’ Session TS 2, 1430-1600 Industrial Presentation TS 1, 1630-1730 Farmers’ Session Day 2, Friday, 17 February 2017 TS 3, 1000-1130 Dr. Kurien Oration Lecture TS 4, 1200-1330 Instituitional approach towards climate change TS 5, 1200 – 133 Impact of heat stress on animal productivity TS 6, 1200 – 1330 Industrial Presentation TS 7, 1430 -1800 Case studies - Impact of Natural Calamities TS 8, 1430 -1800 Economic impact on milk processing TS 9, 1430 -1800 Industrial presentation Day 3, Saturday, 18 February 2017 TS 10, 1000 – 1330 Effect on human diets due to climate change TS 11, 1000 – 1330 Effect of global warming on milk production

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Technical Programme of 45th Dairy Industry Conference, Mumbai TS 1 Farmers Session TS 2 Industrial Presentation TS 3 Dr. Kurien Oration Lecture TS 4 Institutional approach towards climate change TS 5 Impact of heat stress on animal productivity TS 6 Industrial Presentation TS 7 Case studies - Impact of Natural Calamities TS 8 Economic impact on milk processing TS 9 Industrial presentation TS 10 Effect of climate change on human diets TS 11 Reducing carbon foot prints TS 12 Industrial Presentation

ce Make Refrigeration Pvt Ltd and Bharat Refrigerations Pvt Ltd, announced that Ice Make Refrigeration Pvt Ltd has acquired Bharat Refrigerations Pvt Ltd business effective from December 15th 2016. “We are thrilled and energized about joining forces with Bharat Refrigerations Pvt Ltd. Bharat’s differentiated and reputed products will offer Ice Make’s Customers a range of Product options with increased value, while preserving the legacy of customer satisfaction that both companies prioritize,” said Mr. Chandrakant Patel, Ice Make’s Managing Director.

Since its founding as Bharat Refrigerations in the late 80’s, Bharat Refrigeration has grown from its Chennai roots to become a widely renowned, integrated refrigeration equipment manufacturer across the South. Along the years, Bharat Refrigerations Pvt Ltd has remained a true family business and, under the leadership of its founder Mr. T. M. Venu, has achieved stature as a highly reliable and technically competent player in South India.

Ice Make’s Managing Director said “this acquisition will allow Bharat Refrigerations to continue as the leader of Refrigeration Equipments Manufacturer in the South, while leveraging Ice

Make’s advanced capabilities & systems across our Refrigeration Equipment’s value chain. I believe that time has come for Ice Make to truly become one of the Strongest Players in the Refrigeration Arena that not only brings a dynamic change in commercial refrigeration market but also drive customer’s profitability through highly efficient and effective value added product line.”

Bharat Refrigerations’ Founder Mr. T.M. Venu said, “Ice Make’s support will enable Bharat Refrigerations to grow faster, introduce new product designs and models more rapidly, and expand on our history of success by reaching a broader array of customers and markets. I am excited that our employees have joined the ICE MAKE Family. Having seen how Ice Make truly ‘lives’ its core values, and because of this and its compelling vision of providing unrivaled, highly productive refrigeration products to customers, I believe that our mutual goal to anticipate, nurture and drive positive change in the refrigeration industry will be delivered through our synergy.”

“Apart from other core products, our latest Patent Protected Cold Plate Reefer Product Line under the flagship TRANSFREEZ, is projected to spread extensively across the Nation catering to LastMile Cold Chain requirements of customers.

Jaitley announces Rs. 8000 Cr for dairy sector

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inance Minister Arun Jaitley has given special focus to agricultural economy and farmer welfare in his Budget speech. The total allocation for rural, agricultural and allied sectors for 2017-18 is Rs. 187223 crore, which is 24 per cent higher than the previous year. He said that the plan is to allow for an agricultural credit of Rs 10 lakh crore.

Government will focus on increasing the credit flow to under-served areas. Also, he announced computerization for NABARD and said that he would allocate Rs 9,000 crore for the Fasal Bima Yojana. Fasal Bima Yojana will be increased to 40 percent from 30 percent.Several announcements were made on soil health cards and for a modern law on contract farming. Jaitley also announced that the government has given the highest ever allocation for NREGA to Rs 48,000 crore.

The government provides short-term crop loans up

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to Rs 3 lakh at subsidised interest rate of 7 per cent per annum.“The target for agricultural credit in 2017-18 has been fixed at a record level of Rs 10 lakh crore”. Three per cent additional incentive is provided to farmers for prompt repayment of loans within due date, making an effective interest rate for them at 4 per cent.

Jaitley said the allocation for new crop insurance scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’, that was launched last year has been increased to Rs 13,240 crore this fiscal from budgeted Rs 5,500 crore. “The allocation for the next fiscal has been earmarked at Rs 9,000 crore. “The coverage of this scheme will be increased from 30 per cent of the cropped area in 2016-17 to 40 per cent in 2017-18 to 50 per cent in 2018-19,” The finance minister said that dedicated microirrigation fund will be created with a corpus of Rs 5000 crore.

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infrastructure development fund announced now will help our cattle industry and farmers even more. The provision of credit facility will benefit farmers in millions as they will now easily be able to meet loan requirement. The Rs 5,000 crore micro irrigation infrastructure fund will significantly strengthen the state.

Over the next five years, we expect that these provisions will help double the income of our farmers and boost our rural economy. The proposed new legislation for contract farming will also go a long way in bringing benefits to them.

All these initiatives are reflective of the progressive thinking of the central government. Alongside cooperative federalism, the Budget makes the Centre’s commitment to transform India evident.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is growing rapidly and various measures are being taken to ensure that no one stops its pace. All obstacles are gradually being eliminated by the government.

The world’s fastest growing economy on PM Modi’s watch is also developing itself as a unified market which will facilitate investment and economic growth. The thrust on digital economy will further help build a new and more integrated economy of India.

I am particularly impressed by the steps announced to eliminate poverty and generate new jobs. The Indian International Skill Development Centers will make our youth employable and the Rs 4,000 crore SANKALP programme will enable the young people earn a decent living.

The other people-friendly measures that deserve mention are tax relief measures for small companies. These will help promote small and micro-enterprises on a wider scale. The personal income tax relief will also be a big help to the common people. Waiver of service charge on online railway ticket booking is another good initiative by the government that will promote cashless transactions and help India grow faster towards its path to a digital economy.

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REVITALISING THE MILK REVOLUTION

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Amul raised milk procurement rateby Rs 10

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he Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Limited (KDCMPUL) popularly known as Amul Dairy has decided to again raise milk procurement prices by Rs 10 per kg fat.

That means farmers will now receive Rs 600 per kg fat from January 11 against the current rate of Rs 590 per kg fat.

Amul Dairy's Managing Director Dr. K Rathnam said, “although, we have ensured that all our 6.52 lakh farmers of 1,100 plus milk societies have their bank accounts, 100 % payments are not being done because of insufficient cash in banks.”Amul Dairy had increased the procurement prices from Rs 580 per kg fat to Rs 590 per kg fat on November 11, 2016. In fact, there are 454 village level milk societies with nearly 1.20 lakh farmers associated with them where a farmer has to travel minimum 5 to maximum 25 km to either reach a bank or an ATM. By increasing procurement prices, we want to give them an assurance.”

He said, another reason for increasing procurement prices is the fact that cattle feed prices which were at Rs 16,885 per metric tonne are at Rs 17,300 per metric tonne now. The dairy is currently witnessing six percent growth in milk procurement. While its procurement from Gujarat stands at around 22.5 lakh litres per day, from other states like Maharashtra, Punjab, and West Bengal it procures nearly 6.2 lakh litres per day. At present, there are 2.6 lakh farmers who supply milk to the dairy on daily basis.

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GCMMF pledges Rs 42,00 cr Variety offered by milk start-ups for the consumers during "Vibrant Gujarat" projects will involve expansion and setting up new dairy plants for milk processing, powder, and cattle feed.

Earlier, GCMMF had announced investment of Rs 5,000 crore across the country by 2020.

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CMMF has decided to sign MoUs worth Rs 42,00 crore, keeping pace with the mood of a Vibrant Gujarat said MD Mr. R.S. Sodhi. It would be signed with the State govt and the projects would roll out in the next couple of years, Sodhi emphasized.A federation of 18 milk unions GCMMF markets Amul. Of the 18 member unions of the federation, 12 district dairy unions will be signing the MoUs. The

Divulging details, Sodhi said Banas Dairy will invest Rs 1,350 crore for setting up a new dairy plant in North Gujarat; Amul Dairy to invest Rs 450 crore for expansion of its chocolate plant and setting up new UHT milk plant and Sabar Dairy shall invest Rs 400 crore for setting up a powder plant at Himmatnagar.AmulFed Dairy will set up a powder plant at Bhat while Ahmedabad’s Uttam Dairy will be investing Rs 350 crore for setting up a new dairy and cattle feed plant at Ahmedabad. Bhavnagar-based Sarvottam Dairy will invest Rs 500 crore for new dairy and milk powder plant while Surat’s Sumul Dairy too will invest Rs 230 crore to set up a powder and dairy plant.

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hen a Wall Street resident decided to move to Coimbatore from New York, one of the biggest problems he faced was the lack of A2 milk in his hometown Coimbatore. His newborn son's lactose intolerance was proving tortuous, till he decided to feed him milk from native breeds, used for jallikattu, like Puliyakulam, Kangayam, which is rich in A2 milk.

A2 milk is considered by the health conscious as a superior as it contains a beta-casein protein, unlike the more commonly available A1 milk sold by milk cooperatives like Amul, Aavin and Nandini.

V. Shivakumar went on to form the Coimbatorebased Kongu Goshala to preserve Kangayam and Tiruchengodu breeds. He also runs a mobile app Kongu Maddu, where people can place orders for A2 milk. A majority of the app's users are from Theni, Palamedu, Pollachi, Allanganallur, Karur, Thiruchengode Erode, Tirupur, Oddanchataram and Attur.

Consumers, have become more aware of the harmful usage of steroid and oxytocins, now are

opting for A2 milk, non-pastuerised fresh milk, organic milk from cows and buffaloes and freerange milk.

Many Startups like Shudh Farms, The Milk Company are finding that price is no barrier and that people are willing to pay a hefty Rs 72 a packet versus the industry norm of Rs 12 for half a litre.

"Large-scale mechanised farms use a lot oxytocins in cows to make them increase their milk output.

In human women it used to induce labour pains, in cows the drug can prove harmful. Instead of milking cow only for the six months it is pregnant, they want to milk it year-round," said Karthikeya Senapathy, founder, Kangayam Cattle Research Foundation. So, I buy only native cattle milk for my two girls, and I don't mind paying Rs 80-Rs 100 for a half a litre. Our native cattle breeds are basically drought-animals and have lower yield compared to Jersey, Angus,” he added.

A manager at the Madras Milk Company said “with shelf-life of 7 days, organic milk is finding more traction in areas like Velachery, T.Nagar.

Porur, and Sholinganullur.” The Madras Milk Company which has priced cow milk at Rs 70 and buffalo milk at Rs 80, promises fresh delivery from the farm within 12 hours. Customers get their milk in vintage bottles and get them refilled daily.

Owner of Shudh Farms, Raja Marthandam said "We've had people drive nearly three hours to spend their holiday with us. People are happier with what we sell, and know the quality of what we offer after a day at the farm." Shudh Farms is located on the outskirts of Chennai has a lush green patch for vegetation, where paddy, vegetables, fruit orchards, coconut groves nestle for space.

Consumers of milk are invited for field trips to the farm to feed the cows, graze them, and have a fun family outing.

While some are catering to specific segments, some are taking milk to the masses. Srikumar Misra, Founder, MD and CEO of Milky Moo, said "The product under the Milky Moo brand is in the mass premium segment. Our milk has a longer shelf life and we find equal contribution to our customer base from families as well; the milk from the company can be directly consumed without boiling.” Besides innovations in milk, the company has on its platform, milk shakes made of concumin since 2015. Based out of Odisha, the company is recording a growth of 100% CAGR. "We hope to make it 10 times bigger, catering to the market mainly in Eastern India," said Misra.

There are also those against large-scale, mechanised farming, and opting for free range cows. "We have a small unit of cows and a dairy farming unit. Our cattle are allowed to roam free and we've found our milk well-received in the local market," said Dinesh Raju of Darmona Farms, a unit of Darmona Teas. A Gurgaon based startup, Milk Basket delivers milk to households every morning. Customers can choose from a range of brands and niche varieties of milk before 12 am, which would be delivered the next morning on a prepaid basis. Head, marketing of Milk Basket Satyendra Singh said that while the consumers predominantly go for the branded products, an increasing number are gravitating towards niche varieties such as organic milk, A2 milk. "Families predominantly contribute to the customer base.

Brands such as Country Fresh, Cow Boys and popular brands such as Mother Dairy and Amul are among the popularly sold," added Singh.

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Carrier Commercial Refrigeration

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arrier Commercial Refrigeration (CCR) is a part of UTC Climate, Controls and Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTC), a leading provider to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.

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Built on Dr. Willis Carrier’s invention of modern air conditioning in 1902, Carrier’s research, expertise and innovation have resulted in market leading solutions. We recognize the vital importance of maintaining a responsible balance between the comfort we create today and the world we live in tomorrow. Millions of people trust Carrier’s leadership in delivering efficient solutions.

Over the years, Carrier India has significantly contributed in promoting sustainability. Carrier is the only company in the world to be a founding member of the Green Building Councils of the U.S., Argentina, China, India, Singapore and France. In fact, Carrier was instrumental in launching the U.S. Green Building Council® (USGBC) in 1993 and was the first company in the world to join the organization.

for enhanced customer experience.

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Our comprehensive Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) program establishes a framework and provides tools for implementing our EH&S practices into our business & culture. The Carrier Gurgaon facility holds a distinctive record of delivering over 17 million man hours without a lost work day incident, clearly citing the measures of safety followed here.

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India International Dairy Expo (IIDE) 2017 concurrent to 45th Dairy Industry Conference (DIC):

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ith over 170 exhibitors from India & International showcasing their new technological advances / products / services being offered to the dairy industry, spread over an area of 7400 sq.mt.; and over 6,000 dairy professionals expected to witness these exhibits, the next edition of India International Dairy Expo (IIDE) 2017 concurrent to 45th Dairy Industry Conference will bring the entire gamut of the dairy industry under one roof.

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It invests in R&D resources to advance energy efficiency, ozone layer protection and low global warming technologies in its products.

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Carrier’s presence in India dates back to 1986, when Carrier India was established. In the year 1988, the first manufacturing facility was commissioned in Gurgaon, Haryana. Spread in an area of 19 acres, this state-of-the-art facility consists of highly automated manufacturing unit, an excellent R&D Center and an advanced Quality Clinic. Currently, refrigeration products manufactured in this facility include air cooled condensers, multi compressor racks, air cooled condensing units, evaporators, chest freezers and chest coolers.

CCR India has 18 sales & service offices and a sales & service channel partner network throughout the country, ensuring efficient solutions and quality services at customer’s doorstep.

Our project management and application engineering teams provide turnkey cold chain solutions in cold storage, food retail and chest freezer/cooler segments. Our service team drives

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industry and with an objective to create a dedicated business platform to discuss and deliberate about the new technologies & developments in the dairy industry at national & international level, Indian Dairy Association – West Zone and Koelnmesse YA Tradefair Pvt. Ltd., an Indian subsidiary of Koelnmesse GmbH, Germany will organize once again India International Dairy Expo (IIDE) 2017 concurrent to 45th Dairy Industry Conference during February 16-18, 2017 at Hall 5 & 2, Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India.

The latest developments pertaining to dairy industry, catering to the requirements at every step in the value chain – farming – processing – packaging - distribution – products will be on display at IIDE 2017 and will help the decision makers to finalize their future plans by adopting advanced technologies & processes showcased during the three-day mega event.

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Dairy industry to witness vigorous growth this year

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s per experts, dairy industry in the country is expected to witness spectacular growth in 2017. Director of Entrepreneurship, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University - T.P. Sethumadhavan said during the last decade, the annual growth rate in Indian dairy industry is 4.6 % as compared to the global growth rate of 2.2 per cent. During this period, per capita consumption of milk in the country was 340 g a day as against 299 g globally.

It is predicted that there will be huge demand for dairy products in the country this year. Milk and milk products price will increase by more than 10 per cent that will facilitate more income for dairy farmers. Unemployed educated youths must turn as entrepreneurs and venture into dairying. The

country will witness spectacular growth in dairy processing units.

Sethumadhavan said “India’s milk production has touched 155.499 metric tonnes during 201516. Consumption is increasing at a faster rate.

During this period, Kerala can achieve 72 per cent sustainability in milk production. It has been predicted that Kerala can produce more than 80 per cent of the required milk within the State by the end of 2017.” By the end of March 2017, the country will have only half the amount of the required milk powder, which will increase the requirement of fluid milk and, in turn, benefit dairy farmers. “Milk and milk products are set to cost more as dairy cooperatives such as Amul and Mother Dairy are preparing to increase prices in the coming months and boost the pay-outs to farmers,” he added.

“The number of commercial dairying units will increase this year in the urban and peri-urban areas of metros and big cities. These dairies mainly cater to the needs of urban consumers. The emerging trends will increase the county’s milk production 20 per cent higher when compared to the previous year,” he said.

10mn USD raised

by Milk Mantra to expand operation in east India

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disha-based dairy firm Milk Mantra has raised USD 10 million in the latest round of funding led by SBI-backed Neev Fund, along with existing investors Eight Roads Ventures and Aavishkaar. The fund would be utilised for the company’s growth plans which includes expanding production capacity through setting up of new plants and acquisitions. The company expects its turnover to increase at Rs 170-80 crore in this fiscal from about Rs 125 crore during 201516.

Milk Mantra Dairy’s founder, M.D and CEO Srikumar Misra said “It’s part of larger funding as per the company’s growth plans. We want to become a leading dairy firm of eastern India. In the first phase, we have raised USD 10 million. With this round of funding, the company has raised about Rs 165-170 crore.

He added that the company is focusing on four states – Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh for expansion of its business. It is also focusing on product innovations. “We have two dairy plants in Odisha with processing capacity of 3.5 lakh litres per day.” The company manufactures various dairy products at third-party facility in Kolkata.

active discussion. It will take 3-6 months in this process”. Milk Mantra has successfully raised capital from reputed investors – Aavishkaar backed the company in 2012, followed by Eight Roads in 2014 and now Neev Fund in 2016.

As a part of this round, Ambalika Banerjee from Neev Fund and Dhyanesh Shah from Eight Roads will join the board of Milk Mantra, in addition to existing directors Noshir Colah from Aavishkaar and Kabir Narang from Eight Roads, and Independent Director Suresh Senapaty, Ex-CFO Wipro.

“Getting a committed investor like Neev along with the continued support of Eight Roads and Aavishkaar endorses Milk Mantra’s growth potential and strategy of focused functional innovation in creating an exciting brand whilst building our milk sourcing network. With this Series-D raise, the company is well poised to expand further in its core markets,” Misra said.

The company procures milk from a network of more than 43,000 farmers covering more than 800 villages. Apart from fresh milk, the company produces a range of dairy products including probiotic dahi, paneer, mishti dahi, lassi, curcumin-based milk-shakes etc under the ‘Milky Moo’ brand.

Indian dairies looking at selling protein supplements Nano Dip Strip developed by dairy experts to detect added milk milk adulterations Regarding acquisition, Misra said that “We are in

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fter seeing the benefits that value-added products offered in terms of improved profit margins, the Indian dairy firms are now looking at selling milk added with protein supplements to cash in on growing awareness among customers on health benefits. Many private dairies, which have already started importing the protein supplements that currently attract high import duties, are also looking at setting up manufacturing units for production of protein supplements like whey, eying higher margins.

Dairies like Mumbai-based Parag Milk Foods, Amul were the one who are already present in this segment are planning to scale up their production while others like Prabhat Dairy are looking to foray. Kishore Nirmal, director, Prabhat Dairy said, “We are looking at producing whey as it’s a byproduct of cheese. As we have recently started producing cheese, so the amount of whey produced is not enough for marketing, though with the growing cheese capacity, we are aiming to venture into this segment as well.”

"We see the demand for health supplements growing in India and in line with it, we are coming up with new variants. We have also increased the production capacity of our two whey plants by 1,200 tons this year to 2,000 tons annually",

said R.S. Sodhi, managing director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, which markets its milk under the brand Amul markets its whey under the brand Amul PRO. Parag Milk Foods has said that it will be focusing on branded whey products to produce and sell Whey protein consumer products in the form of branded health supplement foods and beverages.

Total revenue from whey products for Parag Milk accounted for Rs 225.08 million in 2015 from Rs 227.27 million in 2014, approximately 2 per cent of total revenues.

The low-cost factor of the whey produced domestically will be a major propeller for the growth of this industry as most of it currently is imported that attracts around 30% import duty pushing up the cost. Also, demand from fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies which mix whey in their food items and health supplement are also on the rise. According to the industry, the supply of whey is largely dependent on imports and therefore high costs deterred its growth. However, with domestic companies venturing into this segment, it is bound for a turnaround. But not all the dairies, especially the noncheese making dairy companies like Hyderabadbased Dodla Dairy, New Delhi Based Sterling Agro are interested in entering the segment at this juncture.

“It’s a very niche market in India and as we are not into cheese, producing whey separately would not make sense as it’s a byproduct of cheese,” said D. Sunil Reddy, managing director, Dodla Dairy, Shiva Mudgil.

According to data by research firm IMARC, the whey protein market will touch $143 million in sales by 2020 from $44 million in 2014, registering a growth of 22% for the period of 2014-2020. The industry is 100% organised as production of whey requires heavy investments in machinery.

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amdhenu University Vice- Chancellor Professor M.C. Varshneya, Director of Research Dr DB Patil and principal and dean of Government College of Dairy Science, Dr Vimal M. Ramani, along with a team of researchers have developed a nanotechnology-based “dip strip” as a solution to control milk adulteration.

The team has developed a portable tool which is claimed to be accurate, affordable and a reliable technique. It shall serve as an alternative to the existing traditional and sophisticated methods to examine milk adulteration like infrared based, spectrophotometric, chromatographic, and other technically complicated methods that are time-consuming, expensive and require skilled manpower to handle the sophisticated instruments.

be performed at home also by the common people.

The research project is funded by the Department of Biotechnology under Ministry of Science and Technology and three postgraduate research fellows — Rakesh H. Kabariya, Jayesh H. Kabariya and Ankur C. Thummar were working under the guidance of Dr. Vimal M. Ramani, V-C Prof M.C. Varshneya and Director Research Dr. D.B. Patil since the past one year. Ramani said “The trials so far have been successful and we have also applied for the patent. Against sophisticated expensive testing machines, the mass production cost of each strip will be nearly 25 paise which reflects the accessibility to a common person. At present, separate strips are used to detect eight different impurities. But we are upgrading this to a single strip.”

Registrar of Kamdhenu University to which the Government College of Dairy Science Amreli is affiliated to, V.P. Mackwan said “Across the country, milk adulteration is a haunting problem. As per the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), about 68.4 per cent of the milk is contaminated or adulterated with malpractice in milk supply chain which include dilution with unsafe water is common.”

Also, the Dean of Dairy Science Faculty Dr. Vimal M. Ramani said “This ‘nanotechnology-based dip strip’ resembles a paper strip, but is made of fibrous pad material using nano capillaries. It can detect eight types of impurities, including the most commonly used urea, detergent, sodium carbonate maltodextrin, hydrogen peroxide and others present in the milk. It changes colour with each impurity.” Ankur C.Thummar, one of the research team members said this test is simple, easy, and affordable that can identify the commonly used chemicals like detergent and urea in milk. It can

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Recently Vice Chancellor of Kamdhenu University Professor M.C. Varshneya and the researcher team carried out the demonstration of this test before Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. “The response and support from the state government as well as the University authorities has been very encouraging. The authorities have asked us to work further on this research which will address the major issue of milk adulteration,” added Dr Ramani.

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airy cooperatives such as Amul and Mother Dairy are preparing to increase prices in the next few months that will boost the payouts to farmers. Hence milk and milk products cost price will rise. Dairy majors are expecting a sharp drop in the stock of milk products to carry forward to the next fiscal year in April. They plan to raise milk and milk product prices and pass on the gains to farmers to encourage them to increase supplies, so that they can stock up products for the summer months, a lean period for the production of fresh milk. Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation that owns the Amul brand, RS Sodhi said “By the end of March, carry forward stock of skimmed milk powder (SMP) will be 50% less of last year and hence we might have to again increase farmers' prices, which will impact the price in the market. Consumer should be ready to pay more.”

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uthar Basha, a veteran with over 25 years of Sales and Customer Marketing experience from world class organizations like Hindustan Unilever & Britannia, operating in a high competitive FMCG space joined Prabhat Dairy Limited on 9th January 2017 as Business Head – Consumer.

Prior to joining Prabhat, Basha was the General Manager & Head of Sales at Global Consumer Products Limited, which is backed by Goldman Sachs of US and Mitsui of Japan, led by Mr. A. Mahendran, the erstwhile MD of Godrej Consumer Products. He has been part of the core team in the organization and lead entire GTM (Go to Market) strategy from the scratch.

Basha was the Regional Sales Manager at Britannia Industries for East India with additional responsibilities of Nepal and Bangladesh.

Basha played a key role in turning around the performance of Britannia’s largest region – East, in delivering outstanding top line, bottom line growth and market share gains.

Basha spent close to 22 years with Hindustan

Unilever Limited in a range of key note functions across Sales, Customer Development, Customer Marketing, Channel Strategy roles and also in New Technology oriented projects across various Channels, Categories and Geographies. He was involved in conceiving & executing a wide range of successful Categories. He won the prestigious ‘Chairman’s Award’ in 2006 for his contribution in Customer Marketing for leading Wholesale and Rural Channel Initiatives.

Mr. Vivek Nirmal, Joint Managing Director, said, “Prabhat has an ambition to rapidly expand its consumer business which promises a huge growth potential in India. We strongly believe that the combination of Prabhat Dairy’s Milk sourcing and manufacturing excellence backed by a strong philosophy, ‘Partners in Progress' and with an Industry Veteran Mr. Basha, now on board, will drive the consumer business aggressively. Mr. Muthar Basha will be leading all consumer lead initiatives of the company. He has been known for business acumen, sharp thinking, inclusive leadership and immaculate execution. With Mr. Basha’s savvy business experience we are looking forward to a profound transformation within Prabhat soon.”

Managing Director of Mother Dairy S Nagarajan said the price that the consumer pays for liquid milk could see an upward movement by February.

The cooperative has increased its payment to farmers by Rs. 3-4 a litre over the past year. The last consumer price revision was in June-July this year, when milk prices were increased by Re.1 a litre.

Usually private dairies follow Amul and Mother Dairy in revision of prices. Managing Director of Sterling Agro Industries, Kuldeep Saluja said “If Amul increases liquid milk prices, then we will too”. His company sells dairy products under the Nova brand.He predicts the price of milk products such as buttermilk, butter and ice-cream to increase 5-10% by March. Amul had not increased the price it pays to farmers in 2014-15 when supplies were more than demand, but the situation has now changed, said Sodhi. “Now that milk production has slowed and we have low carryforward stock of milk powder and butter, we are further increasing (procurement) prices” he said.

Cattle feed and fodder prices have gone up 3235% in the past one year, so an increase in farmers' price is necessary, he added.

Sodhi said the carry forward stock till date of SMP in the country by dairy cooperatives and private payers was 32,000-35,000 tonnes, compared with 1.25 lakh tonnes a year earlier.

During the summer season when milk production drops, the dairy sector manufactures liquid milk and other products by diluting milk powder. 10 tonnes of SMP is needed to make 1 lakh litres of milk. The winter months between November to January is the peak season when milk production increases naturally as there is plenty of green fodder available.

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Mr. Arun Narke takes over as President of Indian Dairy Association

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r. Arun Narke took over as President of Indian Dairy Association after Sad demise of Dr. N.R. Bhasin on 7th January, 2017 for the remaining period of current Arun Narke President of Indian Dairy CEC, subject to ratification Association

in the forthcoming AGBM. Mr. Narke has wide experience in the dairy industry and he was also Vice-President of Indian Dairy Association. He is Director since 1978 and Ex- Chairman of Kolhapur Zillha Sah. Dudh Utp. Sangh Ltd., Kolhapur popularly known as Gokul Dudh. He is also recipient of Dr. Kurien Award in 1997-98 and many National Productivity Awards.

Dr. Satish Kulkarni was also selected by CEC Members for the post of Vice-President vacated by Shri Arun Narke.

We wish all the best to both of them for their tenure.

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Dairy startups go the digital way

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airy startups are making use of technology not only to update the supply, order, and milk distribution, but also ensure that dairy products from indigenous breeds get a leg up. Both customers and vendors are benefiting from apps that allow pre-ordering of milk from a smartphone.

Startups in the dairy industry are not innovating something new, but are merely tapping into existing networks and improving productivity. Co-founder of Bengaluru-based Morning Cart, Anuj Bishnoi said, “We tie up with the local doodhwallahs, who collect stock from their usual channels and make the deliveries to people's houses. Without technology, arguments with customers over payments and deliveries were common.” Morning Cart automates delivery of early morning needs such as milk and newspapers. Bishnoi added, “when customers are away, milk is left on the doorstep and it spoils. Then there's the quarrel

over payments. With pre-paid delivery based on orders through the app, neither the customer nor the doodhwallah have any cause for dispute.”

Handling 10,000 milk orders a day in Bengaluru and with 120 vendors on its platform, Sagar Yarnalkar - Co-founder, Daily Ninja said since we use existing networks, our costs are quite low. We can scale up without having to spend on infrastructure.

The tie-up with start-ups has benefitted the dairy farmers greatly. Member of Tamil Nadu Milk Producers' Welfare Association, Ganesan said “There are very few large-scale, mechanised farms. Most farmers have just three or four cows, and for a long time, the large cooperatives like Nandini, Aavin and Amul fixed the prices. With the emergence of startups, farmers are able to get the right price for their labour.”

India is home to the world's largest dairy industry.

Organised dairy sector in India is set to grow with the capacity to produce 1,050 lakh litres per day in the next three years. After demonetization, the dairy industry struggled as more than 80 per cent of the sector is unorganised. However, milk startups found themselves in an unexpected good spot as most of them had put digital payments in place long before the note ban.

Centre tells cities to set up biogas units

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n a concept note shared with states, the Centre has suggested around 10 ‘gobar gas' plants in each city to solve the cleanliness problem and at the same time profit from the exercise.

The cow stands as a huge problem in the way of

Prime Minister's focus Swachh Bharat mission as the stray cattle excreta messes up the cleanliness drive in most cities and towns. The Centre has now come up with an action plan to deal with it. All the municipal commissioners of cities and towns should “make attempts” to transport all stray cattle to nearest cowshed after mapping them, and help set up dung-based biogas plants in these cow shelters with funding from the Swachh Bharat mission.

The Centre has suggested around 10 ‘gobar gas' plants in each city to solve the cleanliness problem and at the same time profit from the exercise. “Approximately 95-102 crore litres of cattle urine and 170-204 crore kilograms of cattle faeces are produced everyday,” cited case studies of successful biogas plants in Surat and Junagarh. The Centre said introduction of biogas has brought about positive changes in the lives of women as well as being a long-term solution to the problem of depleting natural energy sources. “The biogas programme embodies the environmental conservation notions of reduce, reuse and recycle.”

Urban areas in the country have an estimated

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71.68 lakh cattle, hence this is not going to be an easy task. Praveen Prakash, Director of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) said in a letter to municipal commissioners of all the cities on December 28. “While this is much lower than the 18.37 crore cattle in rural areas...it is still a significant amount,” One of the major components of SBM-U is management of solid waste generated within city limits.

“The generation of animal waste/excreta, specifically that of cattle, is a phenomenon that compounds the issue of uncharted waste in cities and town,” Prakash said.

Various cities have reached out to Swachh Bharat mission directorate for support with managing cattle waste.

The Centre said urban local bodies (ULBs) should take the responsibility for mapping nearby cowshed and transport stray cattle to nearest cow shelters. “This activity would provide the gaushalas with ready potential for manure creation and consequently allow them to establish gobar gas plants in their premises,” it said. 35 per cent of the capital expenditure for setting up the biogas plant can be met out from the assistance being provided by Centre under Solid Waste Management Component of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).

The Centre has suggested local bodies to arrange the remaining funds from Private Sector Participation, additional resources from State Government, Corporate Social Responsibility funds and subsidy for setting up of Biogas Plants under National Biogas and Manure Management Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.”

had demanded for funds because the existing infrastructure had become outdated. Managing Director at Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), RS Sodhi said “The cooperative sector did not have funds to invest. The infrastructure created during the Operation Flood movement had become 30 to 40 years old. This is a huge investment and will help create an additional rural income of Rs 50,000 crore per annum. It will have a multiplier effect on the rural economy and the dairy sector.”

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airy co-operative sector is happy with the Budget announcement of Rs 8000 crore fund for dairy sector. With this the dairy sector plans to set up processing facility for additional 500 lakh litre milk per day. Dairy sector

Union Budget announced creation of Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund of Rs 8000 crore over next three years with NABARD. In the first year, the government allocated Rs 2000 crore for creation of the fund.

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pecial fund will help set up processing capacity of an additional 500 lakh litres of milk per day in the country. Dairy Processing Infrastructure Fund with Rs 8,000 crore corpus announced in the Budget would strengthen India’s number one position as the world’s largest milk producer.It will add capacity twice that of Amul or process milk that can meet demand of 10 milk markets of the size of Delhi.

Organised players in the country, including dairy co-operatives and private players currently have capacity to process an estimated 10 crore litres (1,000 lakh litres) of milk per day.In the first year, the government has announced to give Rs 2,000 crore.Managing Director at Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), RS Sodhi said“Since Independence, it is for the first time that government has announced special funds for enhancing milk processing capacities. It will convert into setting up processing facility for additional 500 lakh litres milk per day which means dairy farmers will have an additional income of Rs 50,000 crore per annum. The dairy industry had been demanding special fund to replace the existing infrastructure that has become obsolete.

“The infrastructure created during Operation Flood is 30-40 years old. We will be able to use this funds for building new plants and renovating old ones.” This fund will be used for creating around 200 lakh litres per day milk processing capacity, setting up additional milk powder manufacturing capacity of 340 metric tonnes per day, increasing

cattle feed manufacturing capacity by 1,100 metric tonnes per day, he added.

Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board Dilip Rath said “It will also help in setting up milk chilling facilities at village level by 260 lakh litres per day and installation of 35,000 electronic milk testing equipment at village level.

It will help build marketing infrastructure in small towns by which around 600 small new towns can be covered and it will build ICT infrastructure in the dairy co-operatives.”

The most significant aspect of the budget in terms of India’s foreign policy though was the sharp increase in allocation for Maldives and Seychelles, the 2 countries that hold the key to India’s security interests in the Indian Ocean. Maldives is the only country in India’s neighbourhood which Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t visited yet.

The revised allocation for Seychelles in 201617 was only Rs 50 crore but the government has earmarked Rs 300 crore for the country in 201718. Similarly, in the case of Maldives, the figure for 2017-18 is 245 crore, an increase of Rs 175 crore from the previous year.

In expansion mode, Hatsun Agro inaugurated its 1000th outlet

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atsun Agro Product Ltd (HAPL) inaugurated their 1,000th Hatsun Daily outlet and have plans to expand India and intent to add 2,000 more outlets in the next one year.

The 1,000 outlets are spread across six States and one Union Territory.As a part of its panIndia expansion, the company will reach out to customers in tier II and III cities.

Associate Vice-President, Marketing and Sales,Prasanna Venkatesh J said “Retail expansion is a key step in meeting the increasing demand for our products and to reach new consumers in

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smaller cities. While we are expanding to new geographies our research and development will be focussed on new product innovations to add to our portfolio.”Hatsun Daily is the retail concept of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd to market its milk and milk-based products.

The first Hatsun Daily outlet was opened in Chennai in 2014. The range of products sold in Hatsun Daily include Arokya milk, Hatsun (curd, paneer, ghee, butter, skimmed milk powder, dairy whitener), entire range of Arun Ice creams and ready-to-cook frozen foods under the brand name Oyalo.

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Success Story of Mr. R.P. Banerjee,Chairman, SSP Pvt. Ltd.

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itting in my room watching the sunset on the horizon, I began reminiscing about my childhood days, the immense struggle I had as a child walking barefoot for miles to my school and the adolescent years away from family to get my degree of a Mechanical Engineer to get a respectable job. Now in my twilight years I am not only a successful entrepreneur but also the oldest dairyman in the country.

The journey of my life began in 1953 as a Project Engineer in APV Engineering Company, Calcutta.

I did dairy projects all over India from Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to Guwahati. It included projects for Horlicks, Nabha in Punjab; Glaxo Laboratories, Aligarh for baby food; HUL, Etah in UP; Nestle and many small projects in Trichi, Ooty, Palghat, Agartala, Kanyakumari etc. for overnment of India to name a few. I also did many defence projects in Jabalpur, Secunderabad and Palam airport for military dairy firms.

With that vast experience of 13 years behind me doing various projects I decided to start my own company in 1966 named 'Chemical Vessels Fabricators Private Limited (CVF) in short. The Company bagged its first order from Bhatinda Dairy.

The association with NDDB began in 1969. Dr. Kurien; the pioneer of dairy development in India learnt about me when he attended a Dairy Conference at Chandigarh. Mr. Ryan, MD of Nestle, informed Dr. Kurien about a small Indian Company supplying equipment for dairy which was better than what Swedish Companies were providing.

Dr. V Kurien called me to Anand and told that “we need a man like you to complete the projects for Operation flood - I. I am not getting support

from multinational companies”. He took me as a member of the consulting committee for Operation flood - I. There was no looking back after that. The flood gates were opened for us and we took up challenges and commissioned both new and sick projects. Projects such as that of Mehsana Dairy where the plant was producing curd instead of milk was set right by us.

Rajasthan. It was imported plant Dr. Kurien asked the supplier to commission the plant. They said it is an old plant and spare parts are not available.

You have to scrap the plant. Dr. Kurien asked me whether in a position to set it right and install the plant at Dudh Sagar Dairy, Mehsana. We rectify the plant and successful commissioned it to Mehsana and sample of the product handed over

In one of the consulting committee meetings, it was decided that small companies in India be developed, so that they can handle all feeder balancing dairies in India. For operation flood1, I had to work for 15 days a month with foreign experts for standardizing the drawings for feeder balancing dairies.

Once Dr. Kurien and Mr. V. H. Shah told me whether we will be able to supply a malted milk plant at Mogar Complex Amul. We designed and supplied the plant and handed over sample of Nutramul powder to Dr. V Kurien.

Again Dr. Kurien called me and Mr. V H Shah to set Amul dairy problems as the refrigeration plant was not working properly, CIP system not provided and milk powder plant's capacity decreased. These problems ha to be rectified and increased the capacity of the milk powder plants.

Amul Dairy personnel were not interested to use the CIP system. I conveyed this to Dr. Kurien and he called one engineer from Holland. He trained AMUL technicians that how to handle it.

UNIT – I (CHANDPUR – FARIDABAD) – INSIDE VIEW Once, officers from Haryana Dairy Corporation complained to Dr. Kurien against us about nonfunctioning of the Rohtak Feeder Balancing Dairy and Cattle Feed Plant. Dr. Kurien was very angry on me and told me, “you will not get any more order from NDDB”. I explained all the problems that we are facing from the Project Authority.

They were not giving any services to us and there was no co-operation coming forth. With this Dr. Kurien has fully satisfied in the matter. Even Dr. Amrita Patel told to Dr. Kurien that “you used the indigenous companies to kill the multinationals and now you want to kill them”?

One continuous sweetened condensed milk plant was lying idle for a long time at Raniwara Dairy,

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to Dr. Kurien.

Dr. Kurien realising our potential gave us the opportunity to design and commission a 30 TPD milk powder plant with pressure nozzle system for spray dryer and 5 effect evaporator with TVR. Till then all dryers in India were supplied by multinational companies with disc atomizer. The plant which was originally meant to be installed at Tumkur, Karnataka ended up being diverted by NDDB to Banas Dairy, Palanpur. The plant was commissioned with great difficulty. However, it was inaugurated by Dr. Kurien and Balram Jakhar, The then Union Agricultural Minister.

As is the case with many companies with success comes problems and the company CVF was dissolved due to internal differences between the directors. This was a boon in disguise as it led to the birth of a new company called SSP in 1977.

Equipped now with more knowledge and expertise in the field of drying and evaporation and an R & D Centre approved

by Science & Technology department, Government of India. SSP has grown rapidly with a diversified product range and vast infrastructure, SSP can now compete with the best in the field of technology. From a company with an initial investment of RS.10,000/we can now boast of being

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anone – the French nutrition and dairy major -plans to double its business in India by 2020 for which it will bring in more global brands here and has lined up ten new launches for this year. It has now launched its global flagship infant nutrition brand 'Aptamil'.

Lima added, "We are looking at launching 10 products this year, which would include two products that we will be imported from our global portfolio."

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE At AMUL, we expanded the powder plants 5 TPD to 30 TPD and 40 TPD to 60 TPD. Steam consumption decreased from .45 per KG WE to .09 per kg WE. First fluid bed dryer capacity of 3 tons per hour supplied to AMUL. On seeing the sample of instant milk powder Dr. V Kurien was very happy about the achievements.

After this we took over many projects including expansion of existing plants. Our experience and confidence was growing in leaps and bounds. We started using our expertise and engineering skills to build more energy efficient plants.

During the IDA conference in NDDB complex we supplied the first model of a 30 TPD evaporator and drying plant made of stainless steel against wooden ones made thus far. This model was used to showcase the plant to foreign visitors.

My association with Dr. Kurien was more than 20 years. Once he told me that “only Dairy projects will not help you. You must divert in different food processing plant. Before that start your own R & D Centre”. We started our R & D Centre which got approved by Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

We started manufacturing food processing,

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The company is also looking to leverage on its Indian manufacturing operations to export to neighboring countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

According to Danone’s India Managing Director Rodrigo Lima, the current nutrition business is about 80 per cent of our overall business in India and the rest from the dairy segment. Going forward in this proportion will continue. They plan to double the nutrition and dairy business between now and 2020. The focus for the company would be to enhance market share in existing categories and enter new segments.

a 200-crore company with a vision to even became bigger in the years to come. We are proud to say we are a 'Made in India' company and put India on the global map.

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idya Dairy, Anand, has been awarded the “Gujarat Cleaner Production Award 201314 & Cash prize of Rs. 50000/-” based on Cleaner Production Implementation from Forest & Environment Department, Government of Gujarat. On behalf of Vidya Dairy, Shri D R

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Shah, Managing Director, Shri Birendrakumar, Manager (Dairy) and Shri Bhavesh Patel, Officer (Dairy) received the award from Shri Shankarbhai Chaudhary, Hon’ble Minister of State for Environment, Government of Gujarat; in the presence of Shri Arvind Agarwal, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Forests & Environment Department, GoG; Shri Hardik Shah, IAS, Member Secretary, Gujarat Pollution Control Board; Smt. D. Thara, IAS, Chairperson, Gujarat Cleaner Production Centre, at the function held at Gandhinagar on 04.12.2016. Vidya Dairy will also get additional consent of one year from Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) i.e. 6 years instead of 5 years.

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irst of all, I would like to thank all the readers and advertisers of “Dairy Times” for all their support and motivation to the team. This will be our second volume, first issue i.e. annual issue in the month of February. After the completion of our first year, we feel very proud that you gave us this chance to contribute in the success of Indian dairy industry. We refresh our commitment for constructive journalism for the development and advancement of the Dr. J.V. Parekh

dairy industry.

DT will always fill the gap of positive and productive media. In the year 2016, dairy industry yet again proved that there is no looking back and in the coming years growth of this industry will rise. Private players are playing a very important role in the growth of the industry and we feel that dairy industry will witness double digit growth, if both cooperatives and private companies complement each other with ideas and support for the benefit of the industry.

However the budget 2017 on 1st Feb was not as encouraging as it was expected by the dairy industry. The dairy industry is now looking for the fine print of the proposed Rs 8,000-crore Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund to be set up under the NABARD for next 3 years. In his Budget speech, FM Arun Jaitley said the fund, with an initial corpus of Rs 2,000 crore and to be quadrupled in three years would be used to enable expansion of milk processing capacity in the country. But there are no further details, including the expenditure budget statement of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries or even the Department of Financial Services.

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he recently announced Budget 2017 has brought agriculture and dairy farming into the limelight once again. In India, dairy farming is associated with two names – AMUL (promoted by the Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation or GCMMF) and NDDB (National Dairy Development Board), the apex body for the promotion of dairy farming and milk cooperatives in India.

On the backdrop of the Budget 2017-18, the Chairman of NDDB, Dilip Rath, elaborates NDDB’s plan in the sector. Born in 1954, Rath did his Masters in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Later, he went on to do M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics.

He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1979. During his career, he was Joint Secretary in the Central Government’s department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries. He then became chairman of the Delhi Milk Scheme’s Management Committee.

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.

The milk industry is crucial for Uttar Pradesh for two reasons. First, it is the largest milk producing state in India. Second, it also has a huge number of impoverished farmers, and milk as a supplemental income will be most welcome. What is NDDB is doing for this state, and what more is being planned?

In Uttar Pradesh, the dairy cooperatives are relatively weak and organised private dairies are strong. To help provide [small and medium] milk producers gain access to the market through an institution owned and controlled by them, a producer company has been promoted by NDDB’s wholly owned subsidiary. Further, AMUL is also operating in UP and also providing access to these milk producers by setting up dairies and milk collection network on similar lines. Since a major portion of surplus volume of milk is still handled by unorganised sector, much more needs to be done to increase the share of organised sector.

To strengthen the dairy cooperatives in Uttar Pradesh, there was a need for concrete plan for revival of Pradeshik Cooperative Dairy Federation

Indian dairy industry is not big because we are modern and advanced but because we have enormous spread across the country with largest livestock in the world. Rs 2000 cr outlay would be too small for such huge industry that is supported by crores of farmers and hundreds of cooperatives and private dairies. It is true that the present infrastructure compared to the global standard is very low and government must enhance the same by funding or attracting investment both by domestic and foreign companies but Rs 2000 cr seems a very less amount.

Another wish was to boost dairy growth through private sector with India being at the top of the milk producers' list in the world, it currently contributes about 15 per cent to total milk production of the world. After the entry of private players, there has been a sharp rise in the production and demand for milk and milk products in the country. However, the sector is still underdeveloped and extremely fragmented. A subsidy on purchase of milk from farmers under cashless conditions shall be initiated to bring double advantage in terms of supporting farmers from vagaries of monsoon and also bringing economy to cashless.

We hope government in its final draft post budget approval by the parliament will add some of the suggestion given by the industry.

Recently also we had a National Seminar at Anand on ‘Dynamism in Dairy Industry and Consumer Demands’. We have been doing traditional dairying since centuries, but now it is high time to show real dynamism in various issues related to dairy industry. We have world class technologies to process cow and buffalo milk and manufacture variety of milk products, but we need to take steps towards ‘green technologies’.

The 45th DIC is focusing on Climate Change & Dairying which is affecting the productivity of the animals but Indian bovine breeds are somewhat better placed that their counterparts in the western countries in respect of Carbon footprints and also notched up a 6.5% growth this past year in milk production when the world production increased by 2%. We require improving the microbiological quality of pooled raw milk being received by our dairies.

On the other hand with anniversary of Dairy Times, we have Indian Dairy Association’s 45th DIC in Mumbai. We wish all the delegated and members of IDA a great year ahead with unprecedented success!!

He became the managing director of NDDB in December 2011 after retiring from the IAS and recently became its chairman.

Rath agreed to speak with RN Bhaskar of FPJ and given below are edited excerpts.

The budget makes the largest ever allocation for the agriculture sector. It also makes huge allocations for the milk and dairy sector. Could we have your comments on these developments?

There is synergy between agriculture and dairy.

The growth in agriculture and allied sector was 2.6 per cent during last two years where as 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 sector — 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.

In his budget speech, the Finance Minister mentioned that “a large number of milk processing units set up under the Operation Flood Programme have since become old and obsolete”, needs substantial investments in modernising the dairy infrastructure. The fund allocated for dairy processing infrastructure would help support the high growth registered in milk production recently.

In addition, the allocation for dairy development

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(PCDF). NDDB has helped PCDF in preparing a comprehensive roadmap for restructuring of cooperative system which includes study of dairy plants, cooperative governance, capacity building and formulating strategies to bring back the producers under the cooperative fold.

The PCDF has also prepared a proposal for strengthening of existing dairy infrastructure and creation of new facilities for milk processing and establishing quality control labs. The Indian Dairy Machinery Company (IDMC), NDDB’s subsidiary has taken up these projects on turnkey basis. It is envisaged that with emerging modernisation and creation of additional dairy infrastructure in the State, more milk producers are expected to engage themselves in dairy business.

Under National Dairy Plan Phase I (NDP I), as many as 24 sub-project plans have been approved with an outlay of Rs 171 crore for various dairy development activities. In addition to dairy cooperatives in the State, Saahaj Milk Producers’ Company with the assistance received under NDP I is procuring about 6.1lakh kg of milk daily from about 2,900 villages.

What are NDDB’s plans for Maharashtra, considering that this large state has an agricultural GSDP of just 7 per cent?

In comparison to other parts of the State, Vidarbha and Marathwada regions are less developed in many areas including infrastructure. Dairying is recognised as an effective tool for social and economic development. Anecdotal evidence across India suggests that dairying is a better insurance for livelihood security in the drought

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Dairy will be a key player in the rural income growth story their livelihood in the State.

In Assam, the management of West Assam Milk Union (WAMUL) popularly known as ‘Purabi dairy’ was handed over to NDDB in May 2008.

At present, WAMUL procures 21,000 litres per day from 200 villages in four districts of Kamrup, Marigaon, Nagaon and Barpeta.

The Assam Government proposed to take up a project titled ‘Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART)’. The proposed project would support, value addition in the production and post-harvest segments of selected agriculture value-chains including dairy in 13 districts. The Assam government has designated WAMUL for implementation of dairy development activities under APART for a period of seven years (2017 to 2024). Under APART, it will be carrying out animal breeding and dairy development activities for formal/ organised dairy sector in the State.

prone regions. A planned intervention in dairy sector in these regions will help in improving the overall livelihood of rural farmers.

sustainable livelihood option to milk producers, it is expected to generate direct and indirect employment for rural youths.

It is therefore proposed to implement a region specific dairy development strategy through a focussed approach. The proposed project aims at making dairying a source of sustainable livelihood option by improving the productivity of milch animals through scientific breeding activities and establishing effective milk producers’ institutions for milk collection, processing and marketing in a fair and transparent manner.

In addition, under NDP I, as many as 36 subproject plans in the areas of fodder development, milk collection, ration balancing, strengthening of semen stations, bull production, etc. have been approved with a total outlay of Rs 127 crore covering the entire State, which would benefit Vidarbha and Marathwada regions also.

The project is proposed to be implemented in 3,000 villages in Vidarbha and Marathwada regions with a target to procure 2 lakh litres per day by the end of the third year. This would be undertaken by productivity enhancement services like doorstep delivery of artificial insemination (AI), Ration Balancing Advisory and animal health along with setting-up of milk producer institutions in the villages for milk collection.

In a short period of time, since its operationalisation in October 2016, over 360 villages have already been covered in milk collection system with a total procurement of 25,000 litres per day.

It is expected that desired results would be achieved through convergence of above activities.

While a subsidiary of NDDB has started milk procurement operations in the region, Government of Maharashtra will be taking up activities like AI delivery, animal health services and fodder development.

Under the project, knowledge transfer activities will particularly benefit many, especially marginal and small farmers. While the project will provide

On one hand, East India and North East India is blessed with water and fodder, on other hand there is malnutrition and poverty to a great extent. What is done to improve conditions there?

Dairying as an economic activity has not penetrated uniformly across all the potential areas of the country. The current status of dairy sector suggests that while some regions in the country like western and southern have been successful in harnessing benefits of dairy development, the eastern part of the country has lagged in matching up the pace of growth of dairy development despite having fodder and water resources.

In order to improve the dairy development condition in these regions, NDP I is already being implemented in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. Till date, 61 sub-projects with a total outlay of Rs 125 crore have been approved.

Moreover, the Jharkhand Milk Federation (JMF) is managed by NDDB since 2014. Currently, it procures 76,000 litres of milk per day from 1,200 villages. It is expected to cover about 4,600 villages in next 3 years. This will have a significant impact on the income of the milk producers and

NDDB has also signed a MoU with Arunachal Pradesh Government for helping dairy development in the state. NDDB will provide all technical support in the areas of productivity enhancement, establishment of fair and transparent milk procurement system, capacity building of stakeholders and dairy infrastructure. NDDB will also formulate a five-year comprehensive dairy development plan for the state. A team from NDDB will visit the State soon to undertake a study in this regard.

Which are the other areas that NDDB is looking at?

In addition to strengthening of processing infrastructure of dairy cooperatives, efforts are being made simultaneously to expand the coverage of cooperatives by including other dairy potential villages. NDP I is being implemented in 18 major milk producing states providing full support to the dairy cooperatives.

One of the major challenges in India is to improve the productivity of large low productive indigenous milch animals. This can only be possible through interventions in animal breeding and feeding practices. Under NDP I, High Genetic Merit Bull production programme have been taken up, which will help in production of quality semen doses for use in Artificial Insemination (AI). All ‘A’ and ‘B’ graded semen stations in India are being strengthened to meet future demand for frozen semen doses (about 100 million doses). To reap the benefit of NDP I, focus has to be on improving the quality of AI services delivered by various AI service delivery agencies in the country.

NDDB proposes to use technology to support dairy development, which will include embryo transfer and genomic selection.

NDDB started using embryo transfer technology in 1986 and established for the first time in the country an embryo transfer laboratory at Sabarmati Ashram Gaushala (SAG), Bidaj, Gujarat. Using this technology, till date, around 12,300 viable embryos have been produced. Of these, around 700 embryos are of indigenous cattle breeds from which around 80 calves have been born. Besides these, around 3,000 embryos of buffalo breeds have also been produced. Using this technology, bulls of various indigenous cattle and buffalo breeds have been produced which are being used for semen production.

Genomic selection once standardised is a quick and cost-effective method for selection of breeding bulls and bull mothers. This method is now being used the world over in dairy cattle breeding.

NDDB has already started collecting DNA material from performance recorded animals.

These DNA samples will be used for identifying Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) useful for genomic selection of the indigenous breeds of cattle and buffaloes and crossbred cattle. A MoU

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has been signed with Aarhus University, Denmark to build capacity of officers in this area.

Then there is an issue of animal nutrition. To improve the animal feeding practices, a Ration Balancing Programme is being implemented.

Fodder production and conservation technologies are also being promoted under NDP I. New sources of green fodder as well as other practices like crop residue management are proposed to be used to help farmers manage feeding of their animals.

Animal health is another area where efforts are likely to be intensified.

The scourge of mastitis severely impacts the profits of the dairy farmer. NDDB has been propagating a farmer friendly control model focusing on detection and control of sub-clinical mastitis (SCM), which usually goes undetected by the farmer, but causes ~70 per cent of mastitis related losses by the way of reduction in milk production. These SCM cases may later on mature to the clinical and chronic forms.

Once SCM positive animals are identified in the field, cheap, easily executable and highly-effective solutions are provided to the farmer which helps in reducing the production losses and decreasing the clinical and chronic mastitis cases in his/her homestead.

In this model, ethno-veterinary medicine is also being promoted as a cost-effective, simple and sustainable solution for the farmer to manage clinical and chronic forms of mastitis. To a great extent, this will address issues related to antibiotic residues in milk and antimicrobial resistance in general.

There are many other measures that NDDB is looking at to ensure the health and productivity of cattle.

Brucellosis in animals is a concern in most parts of the country. It is also a zoonosis that is underreported in India. NDDB has been propagating a holistic approach to brucellosis control which includes a plethora of activities over and above vaccination of female calves that would help contain the spread of infection. This also embraces the one health concept of connecting the disease in animals with the occurrence in humans that will provide a more plausible reason for the farmers to willingly participate in controlling the disease in animals. Linkages with medical practitioners are also created which in turn increase the diagnosis and thereby cure rates of the disease in humans, since it requires specific treatment regimens. The productivity of the farmer per se with regard to his working capacity due to human brucellosis is also addressed, which reduces the indirect losses related to the disease.

Of late, animal welfare is one of the areas that have been receiving the focus which it rightly deserves.

While there are many components in dairying related to housing, flooring, disease control, feeding, management etc. that encompass animal comfort per se, one aspect that stands out is hoof management.

Hoof management has not been given its due importance in dairying in our country and is also not recognised by the farmer as an essential requirement to combat many other conditions like mastitis and metritis that is sparked off from hoof diseases.

NDDB is facilitating the training of veterinarians for creating expertise on hoof management to mitigate the hoof and related problems very commonly encountered in tethered, stall fed animals.

(The Free Press Journal, February 4, 2017)

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New business and rapid growth in lactose free dairy

alio’s new lactose free milks and powders offer customers the opportunity to increase category value with an outstanding dairy innovation and products that deliver patented superior consumer benefits.

Valio launched the world’s first wholly lactose free milk drink in 2001, which tastes exactly like fresh milk with none of the sweetness associated with lactose adjusted products.

Valio’s commitment to responsible operations helps satisfy China’s challenging requirements for supply chain security and traceability, product safety, high quality, transparency and trust.

Consumers everywhere value pure natural quality, cleanness and taste. Valio milk is the purest in the EU and proven to be amongst the best in the world. It’s 100% Finnish and 100% traceable to its origin.

The new consumer powders are targeting first the Far East and Asia where lactose intolerance is prevalent yet healthy dairy is an essential part of the local diet, and liquid milk is generally prepared at home from a soluble milk powder.

State of the market Lactose free sales are predicted to grow by 75 percent in Europe between 2012 and 2016*. The US market is expected to develop steadily and new markets in Asia and South America have the potential to expand rapidly, especially those where a lack of lactose free product penetration combines with a high incidence of lactose intolerance and a sophisticated consumer marketplace.

Valio’s new international lactose free range Increasing numbers of consumers are seeking out lactose free dairy, and Valio customers are well placed to profit from the opportunities presented by the addition of a growing international range of lactose free products to our established portfolio.

These include lactose free instant soluble powders for consumers in skimmed, semi skimmed and whole milk varieties, semi-skimmed milk drink, high protein milk drink, Barista milk for coffee aficionados, whipping cream, butter and a spread.

Innovation value added Valio is a world-class dairy industry pioneer that patents its innovations, generates value added products built on those innovations, and licenses continuously developing technologies worldwide.

The secret of Valio’s R&D success lies in understanding consumer needs, listening to what customers and consumers want, and developing products and services accordingly.

Valio now offers the widest selection of naturally healthy, high-quality lactose free products made from premium Finnish milk under the Valio Eila® brand.

Seeking new partners With more than 100 Valio lactose free products available in the Nordic and European markets, Valio is now inviting partners for Central Europe as well as China where 80% of the population is lactose intolerant and rising awareness of the problem presents significant potential for early entrants.

Offering new benefits Valio Eila® patented lactose free technology now partly digests the proteins in milk making products ideal for consumers with an even more sensitive stomach. Research indicates that incompletely digested milk proteins in the GI tract may cause unpleasant stomach symptoms.

Valio has made its new consumer powders especially easy to digest so lactose intolerant consumers benefit quickly from the milk nutrients, high protein content and added vitamin D.

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These qualities also apply to people who can tolerate lactose better.

The essential nutrients supplied by dairy are untouched by Valio’s unique lactose free production process which guarantees products entirely without lactose yet with all the natural taste, vitamins and minerals people expect, says Pia Jormanainen, SVP Business Development New Markets.

Exporting expertise With more than a century of experience in international markets, Valio is not only Finland’s biggest dairy product exporter with a 97% share but also the country’s biggest food exporter overall, selling products to 55 countries. Our extensive value added range and export knowhow combined with strong category management expertise supports customers’ business operations as we continue to seek growth in the global dairy industry, explains Business Development Director Paavo Salminen.

New opportunities for Valio partners with products, ingredients and technology for lactose free markets Valio China’s sales are handled directly by Valio's subsidiary in Shanghai. For more information on all territories, please contact Aapo Kukkonen, Export Manager for Consumer Products.

Valio lactose free instant soluble powders for consumers are sealed safely in a bag inside a newly designed cardboard package. Available in 400 g skimmed, semi skimmed and whole milk varieties. http://www.valio.com/articles/new-business-andrapid-growth-in-lactose-free-dairy/

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Say Rasgulla: The Fascinating History of Rasgulla and the ‘Sweet’ Battle Over its Origin

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rom the by-lanes of Kolkata and the temples of Puri to the power corridors of Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rasgulla remains one of India’s best-loved culinary inventions.

The Bengalis stake their claim on it. The Oriyas believe it's their invention. And the world cannot seem to have enough of the sweet, also known as rosogolla, roshogollah or rasbari (depending which Indian state it is being referred in). If there has been one sweet dish that has been a true 'game changer'of the way sweets are perceived and eaten in India, it has to be the luscious rasgulla – or how famous British chef William Harold described it in a journal – "a bowl of sweet, syrupy,soft cheeseballs.”

So, if you are a die-hard fan of this delicious sweet, take things up a notch and tease your taste buds a little more with the story of what makes rasgulla so extraordinary.

West Bengal, the state synonymous with the quintessential rasgulla, could hardly have taken this claim lying down. Also, now that we are talking about Bengalis, let’s just call it roshogolla!

Pronounced 'raw-show-golla', the Bengalis claim that it was developed by Calcutta gentleman Nabin Chandra Das in 1868 and popularised by the following generations of his family.

In Kolkata, Dhiman Das, the great great-grandson of Nabin Chandra Das, often tells the story of how the legendary sweetmaker invented the rasgulla.

History reveals some interesting facts about the origins of this celebrated Indian sweet.Many Odias claim that the answer lies in the history of Puri in Odisha, where this 700-year-old sweet dish was part of a ritual. The legend goes that Lord Jagannath offered the sweets to his companion Lakshmi, to pacify her for not being taken along during the Rath Yatra or ritual chariot ride.

Known as khira mohana due to its almost white appearance back in the 11th century, it thus became customary to offer this chenna sweet dish to Goddess Mahalakshmi as prasad,especially on the last day of the Rath Yatra, also called Niladri Vijay.

How did the sweet dish reach out of the temple’s periphery given that temples kept their recipes well-guarded is unknown. But folklore has it that it was one of the priests, who began teaching people the art of milk curdling and making

on every door, in order to get hold of that recipe. However, in spite of his on-field research, he failed to acquire the recipe of the rasgulla.

Every home he visited gave him a different recipe and a different technique to work with. Unable to replicate the result, Harold left the country with10 boxes of rasgulla and with the hope that he would eventually be able to recreate the dish. Whether he ever succeeded in doing so remains a mystery.

hub. The rasgulla produced here are brownish in colour due to hard baking compared to the white ones prevalent in Kolkata, are sold throughout the state. Pahala Rasgulla, the other variant of rasgulla that Odisha is famous for is the one from Salepur (yet another rasgulla making hamlet in Odisha near Cuttack). Bigger, softer,creamier with a velvety cream like appearance, this variation of khira mohana was developed by alocal confectioner, Bikalananda Kar. The technique of steaming the cheese balls and then allowing them to slowly rise in the sugar syrup was a technique that was mastered by him. The Odias believe that this is how the modern-day rasgulla originated.

Nabin Chandra Das first established a sweet shop in Jorashanko in 1864. But he went out of business soon and after two years, he opened another establishment in Bagbazar.

Determined that he would not peddle run-ofthe-mill sweets, he wanted to invent a sweet that would solely be his creation. Das tried to boil chenna balls in sugar syrup, but they would just disintegrate.He finally resolved the problem by using reetha and creating bubbles that would lend a sponginess to the chenna balls. After sustained effort, he was able to master the art of holding the balls together, and thus was born rasgulla. His customers loved it.

Bhandar of Sobhabazar further fine-tuned the delicious sweet. The story goes that Bhagwandas Bagla, a wealthy non-Bengali merchant residing in Kolkata, travelled with sweet across India, resulting in new regional variations.It became rasbari in Rajasthan, rajbhog in UP, rasmalai in Benaras and even the official'cheese dumplings' treat in the offices of the East India Company. In 1930, the rasgulla was canned and exported to different countries

by KC Das and gained popularity across the globe.

Here is an interesting anecdote about the deep fondness British colonial rulers in India harboured for the rasgulla.

William Harold was a famous British cook who was sent to India to help with the warefforts. His dishes were so delicious that a high ranking officer, who tried one of dishes,ultimately promoted him to be his personal cook. One day, the officer ordered William to fetch the recipe of the rasgulla, a local dish he ate and fell in love with. Back then, written recipes were very few and very between, so William had to physically walk from home to home, knocking

Inspite of well-wishers advising him to patent his creation, Das then taught the intricacies of the art to various sweetmeat makers because he believed that his creation would become famous only if it was available across the country."

Das’s invention became a huge success among Bengalis. Legend has it that Pashupati Bhattacharya, a famous medical practitioner of Bagbazar, who used to carry Das's rasgulla whenever he visited Rabindranath Tagore.

Once, the shop had run out of stock when Bhattacharya arrived.

As a result, he had to purchase the sweet from a nearby shop. Tagore felt the difference at once and asked the doctor to bring rasgulla from Das's shop only.

rasgulla after he saw villagers throwing excess milk. Interestingly, for the villagers of Pahala (a hamlet in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar) this came as a blessing in disguise. This tiny hamlet was in fact home to more cows than humans, and milk was always in excess. With the villagers quickly learning the method of making chenna (curdled cheese), Pahala soon emerged as Odisha's rasgulla

With so much tradition and history invested in it, Kolkata is unlikely to give up its claim as the iconic sweet's birthplace. Ever since both the governments asking for a geographical indication in 2015, the sweet has found itself at the centre of an interesting tug of war. Odia litterateurs say the sweet is mentioned in many works that were

The other popular tale is that the famous Haradhan Moira, sweet-maker of the Pal Chowdhurys of Ranaghat, inventing the rasgulla by accidentally dropping some chenna balls into bubbling syrup.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, two confectioneries -the Mullicks of Bhowanipore (this later became Balaram) and Chittaranjan Mistana

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written well before 1868. For instance,the ancient Odia dictionary 'Purnachandra Bhasakosha' talks of a cheese sweet in jaggery syrup.

Odisha is also citing Pundit Suryanarayan Dash’s Sahitya Akademi award-winning 'OdiaSahityara Itihasa', which mentions 'Dandi Ramayan' and its pointers to Odia food including rasgulla. Some Odia enthusiasts have even called for observation of RasgullaDiwas, coinciding with the Rath Yatra of the three revered deities of Puri's Jagannath Temple.From chenna to rasgullaon the other hand, West Bengal is preparing a detailed dossier on historical evidence compiledin collaboration with K C Das, the sweet chain founded and run

by Nabin Chandra Das's descendants. Their key argument, also pointed out by food historian KT Achaya, is that Bengalis learnt how to make chenna from the Portuguese and were the first to experiment with it for their sweets. Elsewhere in India, the separation of the chenna from the milk was thought of as disrespect since milk was offered to the gods. In short, the jury is still out on who owns the sweet. Maybe it was invented in Bengal and taken to Odisha. Maybe the Odiya cooks of Bengali households bought it to Bengal.

Given the lack of records, it is impossible to tell.

However,one thing is more certain: given its history, and also the fact that it is now almost a pan-India food, any geographical indication claims that either Odisha or West Bengal might make on the rasgulla would be just a little unfair and unnecessary.

After all, the best thing to do with a rasgulla is to eat it!!!!

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DuPont announces launch of DuPont™ Danisco® YO-MIX® CURD Cultures for the Indian market Desired texture and traditional taste in curd, buttermilk and lassi for a reliable industrial production

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market,” says Sujith Sathyadas, Marketing Manager, DuPont Nutrition & Health, South Asia.

uPont Nutrition & Health will address consumer trends in the dairy space with innovative ingredient solutions at the 45th Dairy Industry Conference and International Trade Fair in Mumbai, Maharashtra from 16-18 February.

At the event, DuPont will launch its much-awaited YO-MIX® CURD Cultures series which ensures a reliable industrial scale production of Indian curd, lassi and buttermilk in desired texture and traditional taste.

Capturing latest trends in health and nutrition, this new range of cultures caters to the diverse needs of Indian market in fresh fermented dairy products.

Speaking about the launch, Parth Patel, Business Director, South Asia, DuPont Nutrition & Health says, “To address the fast-growing market demand, producing retail curd on an industrial scale and maintaining consistency through shelflife can be a challenge for manufacturers. The YOMIX® CURD Cultures Series from the DuPont™ Danisco® range have been developed to meet key challenges that curd manufacturers are facing.”

He adds, “The dairy space in South Asia market is diverse with a strong demand for fresh ideas, indulgent recipes and innovative products. DuPont has a broad portfolio of food ingredients and

exceptional dairy application knowledge. We are able to assist product developers with innovations for all varieties of dairy products like ice creams, frozen desserts, varieties of cheese, milk shakes and fresh fermented dairy.”

“The Indian dairy industry does not only consist of the large milk cooperatives. There are also innumerable small-medium dairies that exist in tier 2 cities. Everyone wants to grow and make the best value added dairy products for their customers that meet their regional need and taste. I think that’s where we will add value, help them differentiate, innovate and commercialize products faster to

“We have developed a broad range of starter cultures for traditional Indian fermented products like curd, lassi and buttermilk, which will enable manufacturers to maintain consistency in product quality, improves production efficiency, fast fermentation time and value optimization in recipes.

These are unique culture formulations for higher phage resistance together with biodiverse culture species for a variety of tastes and textures matching consumer preferences across different regions in India,” says Karuna Jayakrishna, SeniorApplication Specialist, DuPont Nutrition & Health, South Asia.

Delightful dairy offerings made from betterfor-you dairy ingredients At the trade show, DuPont will present a wide range of specialty food ingredients to help dairy food manufacturers develop distinguished dairy products. Visitors will be able to sample a wide

array of tasty products made with DuPont™ Danisco® range of ingredients at Booth C-44: Fresh fermented dairy – Sample products formulated with YO-MIX® Culture series, the first broad range of starter cultures offering remarkable solutions for traditional Indian curd, lassi and buttermilk with a fast fermentation time.

Traditional Kulfi – The traditional Indian frozen treat made with DuPont™ Danisco® emulsifier and stabilizer blends, promises a richer, denser and creamier texture.

Cheese Bites – Flavored with Indian taste buds in mind, DuPont will showcase its dairy ingredients like CHOOZIT® Cheese Cultures, GRINDSTED® Stabilizer Systems and MARZYME® Powder Coagulant for varieties of cheese applications for an improved functionality and delectable taste.

Smooth Milkshakes – Enjoy the richness of sumptuous taste in milkshakes made with RECODAN® tailored ingredient system. It helps you develop innovative products with low fat milk maintaining desirable properties such as rich mouthfeel and creaminess with no compromise on stability and texture.

National seminar & Alumni Convention at Milk City, Anand

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Anand, the Guest of Honour, threw light on the fact that various dynamic changes are bound to happen to the Indian dairy industry in the coming years. The contribution of Amul to the country by introducing improved packaging and innovative products at affordable price, was highlighted by him. He acknowledged the importance of recommendations by the distinguished alumni which would help the industry and policy makers in the future prospects.

National seminar on ‘Dynamism in Dairy Industry & Consumer Demands’& 12th Alumni convention was organised jointly by SMC College of Dairy Science, its Alumni Association and IDA Gujarat Chapter on 4-5th February, 2017. Dr.J. B. Prajapati, Principal and Dean SMC College of Dairy Science, welcomed the dignitaries, delegates from India and abroad, professionals and technocrats from dairy industry. He briefed about, academic, research and extension activitiesof SMC College.

The chief guest of the function, Shri. Dilip Rath, Chairman, NDDB, Anand, gave an overview of present scenario of dairy sector and remarked that India contributes to 18% of world milk production, at the growth rate of 6.5%. He cited that growing market of dairy product has two major challenges to be addressed namely low productivity of milch animals and poor market access by dairy farmers.

He briefed on different initiatives taken by NDDB through various programmes like National Dairy Plan to address these issues. He said that mechanization of indigenous product, addressing nutritional issues and continuous focus on R& D are needed to meet growing demands of varied consumer spectrum.

On this occasion, Shri R. S. Sodhi, Managing Director of GCMMF Ltd., Anand was conferred with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’in appreciation of his outstanding professional contribution to dairy industry. He dedicated his award to his mentor Dr. V. Kurien, to 3.6 million dairy farmers, his team at GCMMF and to his family. He emphasized that we have to make

dairying more attractive and commercially viable to ensure that future generations continue with the same occupation.

On the eve of 12th Alumni convention the graduates and post graduates of the 1991-and 1992 batches were honoured by their Alma mater for their twenty five years of contribution to Dairy fraternity in particular and to the society at large.

On this occasion distinguished alumni, Shri C.P.M. Thulsiram, Manager Qatar Dairy; Shri H. R. Dave, Deputy Manager & Director (NABARD); Mr. Hardik Mehta, Independent Film Maker; Mr. Joshi Harshadkumar R, Mahi Milk Rajkot’ Mr. Meenesh Shah, Group Head Co-operative services, NDDB and Mr. Kumar Gaurav, Vice-President, YES Bank Ltd., were honoured by the Alumni association of

SMC College Of Dairy Science, AAU, Anand.

Dr. J. R. Patel Memorial Charitable Trust Award were conferred on Dr. M. J. Solanky, Former Director of Research, Kamdhenu University, Amreli; Dr. A. J. Pandya, Retired Professor & Head, DDPO, SMC College of Dairy Science, AAU, Anand and Shri S. S. Gokulkrishnan, Manager Quality Assurance, AMUL Dairy Anand for their outstanding contributions to dairy education and dairy industry.

Mr. Patel Harshketu Jagdishbhai and Mr. Patel Harshil Dipakkumar received the ‘Alumni Association Best Student Award’for B.Tech Dairy Technology programme, for the year 2015 and 2016 respectively.

Dr. K. Rathnam, Managing Director, Amul Dairy,

Dr. K.B. Kathiria, Director of Research & Dean PG Studies, AAU, Anand, the Guest of Honour congratulated the batch of 1991 and 1992 for their esteemed contribution to the Indian dairy industry.

He appreciated the global presence of our alumni.

Dr. N.C. Patel, Hon. Vice Chancellor of Anand Agricultural University, Anand, delivered the presidential address. He stressed upon the conservation and reutilization of water in the industry. He also referred to adulteration issues concerning the safety of milk.

More than 300 delegates from India and abroad attended this seminar. Scientists and students showcased their research findings through poster presentations.The seminar had3 technical sessions addressed by eminent speakers from dairy industry and academia, followed by an industrial forum.

A souvenir on ‘Dynamism in Dairy Industry & Consumer Demands’ and career profile were released on this occasion.Dr. A. G. Bhadania, President Alumni association proposed vote of thanks.

Indian packaging firms investing to meet requirements of the dairy sector To 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”.

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

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100 crore aseptic packaging plant in collaboration with Tetra Pack and Uflex’s Rs 580 crore aseptic plant.

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 30 days from two from two-three days now.

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Schreiber Dynamix Dairies inaugurated their Rs 250-cr infant nutrition unit in Maharashtra

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airy products manufacturer Schreiber Dynamix Dairies inaugurated their first state-of-the-art, fully-automated infant nutrition plant at Baramati, Maharashtra, at an investment of Rs 250 crore. They plan to meet the entire investment through internal accruals and want an infant nutritional products pan-India distribution. Later this facility will be expanded to manufacture nutritional products for men and women. The US-based dairy giant Schreiber Foods holds a majority stake in Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Pvt Ltd.

The facility was inaugurated by Mike Hadded, President and CEO, Schreiber Foods, Francois Salamon, President, Schreiber International and Amitabha Ray, CMD, Schreiber Dynamix Dairies. India’s largest customer brand and dairy company Schreiber Dynamix manufactures value added product including cheese, yoghurts, juices, powders for leading food and beverages players like Abbott, Britannia, Coca Cola, Danone,

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Domino’s, McDonald’s and Mother Dairy and so on.

Chairman and Managing Director of Schreiber Dynamix Dairies, Amitabha Ray said “In line with our company’s mission of being the world’s leading customer brand dairy company, we at Schreiber Dynamix continue to invest in high quality milk through our fully integrated network of 400 bulk coolers across various parts of western and southern India. The new infant nutrition facility would distribute products throughout India to meet the daily requirement of nutrition among children and adults.”

Hadded said “Schreiber Dynamix has been catering to the Indian dairy market for over two decades now.

The continued patronage of our customers has encouraged us to build and invest in this new facility.

Through this plant, we will be able to expand our supply of high quality and food safe nutritional powders in India and other parts of the world.”

President of Schreiber International, Francois Salamon said “India is a growing market with huge potential and we are sure that investment of over 100 million dollars in the past decade will help us cater to the growing demand. We are also continuing to explore further investment opportunities.”

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Dairy farmers protesting; Bega acquires Vegemite, spray milk powder on EU HQ Kraft rights

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ustralian dairy company Bega Cheese to purchase the bulk of Mondelez International's trans-Tasman grocery business that includes leading Vegemite brand, for A$460 million. Bega’s will fully fund the deal A$500 million banking facility and is expected to boost earnings by A$40-to-A$45 million and revenue by A$310 million in the first full year of operation, Bega said. Bega's ASX-listed shares jumped 8.7 per cent to A$4.87.

Sales of A$1.2 billion was recorded by the dairy group as on June 30, 2016, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of A$65.4 million. Mondelez's New Zealand operations include the Cadbury factory which was part of a global takeover in 2010. The local holding company earned profit of $9.2 million in calendar 2015 on revenue $291.3 million, of which $68.3 million of sales were to Mondelez Australia and $19.4 million to Cadbury Enterprises.

The acquisition will give Bega the global

trademark rights for Vegemite spread and ZoOSh salad dressings, a transitional royalty licence for several Kraft products including peanut butter and cheese until the end of the year, 6.3 hectares of land and buildings in Port Melbourne, and a licence for Dairylea and Snackabouts brands. The cream cheese brand wasn't included in the sale. Bega said it will provide new cash flow and growing businesses that mirror its existing structure, and greater diversification to its existing dairy foods and nutritional businesses. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

Executive chairman Barry Irvin said in a statement, “This acquisition will be value accretive in its own right, strategically important and company making. These iconic brands alongside the Bega brand are strong building blocks to enable Bega Cheese to become a great consumer goods business.”

Dairy Queen to enter South Korean market

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he restaurant chain owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Dairy Queen is exploring international boundaries by expanding in South Korea, with a plan to open 50 locations there in five years. The company is teaming with M2G USA Investment Inc., which is also a partner in the ownership of Taco Bell restaurants in the U.S. and Korea, as per a statement from Minneapolis-based Dairy Queen.

A spokesperson said Dairy Queen has been

expanding globally with more than 2,200 locations outside U.S. and their recent growth has been focused in nations known for hot weather, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The company also opened locations in Taiwan and Vietnam in recent years and often tweaks menus to appeal to local cultures, offering ice cream flavors such as green tea with red bean. In the Middle East, the chain rolled out beef kofta, a spicier, gyrotype sandwich. The Korean stores will start with traditional Dairy Queen menus.

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airy farmers in Europe protesting against falling prices sprayed tonnes of milk powder over the EU s headquarters as agriculture ministers held talks there. Many farmers from Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Lithuania used a powerful spray on the back of a tractor to turn the European Council building snowy white. The cause for protests was a decision by the European Commission, the executive arm of the 28-nation EU, to gradually put back on the market milk powder stocks that had been withdrawn.

A member of farm campaign groups Via Campesina and MAP, protestor Henri Lecloux said “It’s a sharp reminder that the main problem has not been resolved.” The European Commission decided at the end of November to put on sale a

Serac is launching the SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready an ultra-clean solution easily convertible into aseptic

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ager to offer manufacturers a maximum of possibilities in terms of investment, Serac proposes a new ultra-clean packaging line that can easily and at lower costs be converted into an aseptic line.

• Easier cleaning through optimized design and volumes • Simplified and safe maintenance with an easy access, most often out of the working zone • Reduced footprint

Mainly dedicated to dairy products, the SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready anticipates the development of UHT milk drinks packed in HDPE bottles.

Minimum Investment for aseptic upgrade Specifically designed to be easily converted into an aseptic line, the SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready only requires a few changes to be upgraded. It will be necessary to replace the existing tank with a sterilizable one and to install systems to clean and sterilize both the circuits and the cabin surfaces.

Cabin doors will also be exchanged for a model that includes glove compartments. All other technical requirements for aseptic packaging are already integrated.

SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready Maximum safety and flexibility for ultra-clean packaging Serac, a specialist in the packaging of sensitive products for over 45 years, proposes the SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready high-performance filling solution in terms of hygiene and food safety.

The line benefits from all Serac’s knowledge experience in this field (weight filling without any contact between the neck and the filling nozzle, easy-to-clean filling zone, centralized cleaning system) and from a reinforced hygienic design which makes this equipment usable for the packaging of all refrigerated dairy products, including ESL (extended shelf life).

John Gainor, President and Chief Executive Officer of International Dairy Queen Inc., said in the statement. “We are looking forward to working with M2G USA Investment to bring our renowned menu, signature treats and quality service to the Republic of Korea.”

Biodegradable packaging for dairy products

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he project BIOBOTTLE, developed within the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme has been coordinated by AIMPLAS and has a budget of one million euros. Seven companies and technology centres from five different countries have taken part: VLB (Germany), OWS (Belgium), CNR (Italy), VIZELPAS and ESPAÇOPLAS (Portugal) and finally ALMUPLAS and ALJUAN (Spain).

The packages for this kind of products are currently manufactured from polyethylene, although it is easily recyclable, their shelf life ends mostly in landfills, because of the odour problems that this product’s wastes cause. Given the huge amount of milk products consumed in the European Union, it is so interesting to develop biodegradable and compostable packages.

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Using sterile blown HDPE bottles in which necks are cut just before filling, the line eliminates internal cleaning of the bottle with disinfectant solutions. This is an asset for manufacturers who want to spotlight a production process with as few chemical products as possible.

The objective of the project was to achieve that the new biodegradable packages manufactured with the biopolymers developed within the project complied with the mechanical and thermal aspects required for these applications, as well as they passed the microbiological tests without affecting the product’s organoleptic properties. The results are monolayer bottles and caps and multilayer bags able to resist temperatures up to 95ºC.

Dairy farmers protest against falling prices sprayed tonnes of milk powder over EU headquarters. small portion of milk powder stocks that had built up for more than one year in member states, or six per cent (22,150 tonnes) of 355,000 tonnes that had been withdrawn.

The SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready has also been designed to offer maximum performance and flexibility in production and is adapted for markets with increasingly wide product ranges: • Neck transfer of bottles makes it easy to fill different sizes and shapes • Fast tooling changeovers with a «plug and play» system which avoids mistakes and adjustments

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This scalable line also offers more flexibility in production tool management by allowing a quick reaction at lower costs to strategic developments such as production reallocations or launching of new product ranges An ideal solution to stay current with the development of dairy products packed in bottles The number of refrigerated dairy products packed in bottles is still growing strongly on a worldwide scale with the development of drinking yogurts, fermented milks, pasteurized white and flavored milks, coffee creamers.

Bottles are also increasingly used for non-refrigerated products, especially in small and medium sizes (white, flavored, or supplemented milks, soya milks, infant milks). UHT milk drinks packed in small bottles perfectly meet consumers’ need for on-the-go consumption of these products (at school, at gym, at work) since they offer them a reclosable and easy to handle solution.

By investing in a SAS 5 SB Aseptic Ready packaging line, manufacturers provide themselves with the possibility to stay current with this longterm trend and potentially seize new opportunities through a quick upgrade of their production tool towards the packaging of UHT products in bottles that do not require a cold chain.

An expert in filling solutions for dairy products, Serac is committed to providing manufacturers with flexible and scalable solutions that fulfill the highest standards for hygiene and adapt to their product, process and packaging particulars.

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Food safety easier for producers with new approach to aseptic packaging

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Mr. Paul Mellbin Managing Director Ecolean South East Asia

ith rising populations and limited water sources throughout the Middle East and Asia, manufacturing food and beverages can be challenging.

“Liquid food products in aseptic packaging for ambient distribution are an excellent way to fulfill these new needs”, says Paul Mellbin, Managing Director South East Asia for Ecolean, a Swedish packaging supplier. “However, there are challenges in production, in distribution and environmentally handling post-consumer waste.”

Ecolean’s Air Aseptic packaging system is taking the burden away in part with its e-beam technology. The technology eliminates the need to use hydrogen peroxide to sterilize the packaging material, reducing the need for water and helping manufacturing plants with little to no infrastructure, waste management and water treatment, to produce a product in a sustainable,

lightweight aseptic package.

What makes Ecolean unique, however, is instead of leaving the sterilization up to the food producer’s responsibility and keeping the technology in a filing machine, Ecolean integrates e-beam into its packaging material plants—along with the capital overhead and safety responsibilities.

“The Ecolean Air Aseptic packaging system offers

manufacturers some very unique benefits,” says Mellbin. “As a flexible stand-up pouch, it’s strength and material properties ensures the product stays safe from production through distribution to consumption. In addition, the fact that the system is printed, formed, sterilized by e-beam and sealed at an Ecolean facility significantly reduces the need for energy, chemicals and utilities, creates the direct and indirect cost savings manufacturers need to provide affordable and safe food products in the market.”

Once sterilized at the Ecolean plants, readyto-fill reels of the packages are individually wrapped and protected before they are shipped to food producers around the world. Upon arrival, producers can store the packages without any special requirements and simply remove the plastic and feed it into the filling machine when needed.

“The sterilization process eliminates the need for dairies and beverage companies to invest in e-beam technology and moves a considerable part of the

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aseptic process back into Ecolean’s production plants so it can monitor and control conditions,” says Anna Annerås, Marketing Director, Ecolean.

“With the Ecolean system, producers only need to handle sterilizing the outside of the package, filling of the product and final sealing—Ecolean takes care of the rest.”

In addition to the sterilization process, Ecolean’s packaging material also helps address other challenges, such as transportation.

The flexible packaging material uses up to 50 percent less raw materials compared to other packaging formats, including cartons, cans, and glass bottles. So little, in fact, that an empty oneliter Ecolean aseptic package only weighs 14.3 grams, helping to save shipping costs.

Ecolean is able to achieve such a lightweight and minimal packaging material by using very thin layers of polyethylene, polypropylene and barrier material. The company uses calcium carbonate, also referred to as chalk, as a mineral filler (up to 40 percent by weight) to further reduce the use of plastics and add stiffness to the material. This creates a self-standing, yet flexible, package that lays completely flat when empty.

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Vitamin D fresh milk launched

by Asda

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sda Vitamin D milk has launched fortified fresh milk from Arla, to help customers attain their daily allowance of Vitamin D. The launch is in response to increased consumer demand for products with additional dietary or nutritional benefits. Vitamin D milk was developed by Arla, the farmer-owner dairy company, and contains two microgrammes of the vitamin per 100ml. A normal serving is 250ml so that’s half of an adult’s recommended daily intake in one glass of milk.

One-fifth of the people in UK have low-levels of vitamin D. Public Health England advise that it is needed daily to help keep the bones, teeth and muscle healthy and that anyone over the age of 1 needs 10 microgrammess of Vitamin D per day.

For many, their daily dose of Vitamin D comes from exposure to sunlight, but due to longer nights and darker days, levels of the vitamin can significantly reduce during the winter months.

Nutrition Specialist at Arla Foods UK, Lise Larsen said “This new, vitamin D enriched milk, provides an excellent dietary supplement all year round, but particularly at a time of when vitamin D levels are at their lowest across the UK population. We’ve found with other products – like Arla Protein that consumers welcome the opportunity to supplement their diet through tasty dairy products.”

Senior Director for Chilled at Asda, Richard Dent said “Asda and Arla collaborated to develop the Vitamin D milk to offer customers an easy and accessible solution to help combat Vitamin D deficiency, particularly at a time when intake is at a seasonal low. It allows our customers the freedom to make convenient health choices while doing their weekly shop.”

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Lifting the seal on dairy packaging

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eat seal liners with ergonomic pull tabs offer convenience for containers, according to Darren Dodd, Selig Group’s marketing & service director.

Induction Dr. Darren Dodd heat sealing has had an impact on the reliability of milk containers and their ability to prevent product leakages, maintain product freshness, extend shelf-

life, and provide visible tamper evidence in recent years. Induction heat seal liners incorporating ergonomic pull tabs are meeting growing customer demands for reliable, leak-free, and convenient packaging for dairy products. Today, the majority of milk is supplied to the UK retail market in high density, polyethylene, screw-capped bottles with easy-to-remove, leak-free foil seals. Yet only 15 or so years ago, this leak resistance, which is now taken for granted because of the widespread use of these seals, could not be guaranteed.

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Indeed, leaking milk container closures accounted for as much as two per cent of the industry’s product wastage, equating to approximately 56 million litres of milk lost annually through leakage because of rough handling in transportation and storage. Quite apart from the financial impact of this waste on the dairy industry, it was also becoming a customer relations nightmare.

The arrival of the induction heated foil seal solved the problem virtually overnight, but producer, consumer and retailer demands for high quality dairy product packaging

that is environmentally sound, reliable, quick to apply and easy to open, has remained a challenge for manufacturers operating in this highly competitive market. On the one hand, the producer wants a seal that is reliable, tamperproof, and quick to apply on a fast-moving production line. On the other side, the consumer is also seeking a reliable seal that maintains product freshness, but is quite concerned that the seal can be lifted easily from the container without having to resort to various kitchen utensils.

Additionally,the consumer wants a seal that has clear directions as to how it is removed, while at the same time catering for those among them with poorer sight and limited dexterity. When it was introduced in 2011,Selig’s Lift‘n’Peel easyopen induction heat seal liner won the European Aluminum Foil Association’s Alufoil trophy in two categories: consumer convenience and product preservation. Constructed using a twin polymer and aluminum foilstructure,this induction heat seal provided tamper evidence and was both easy to grip and to remove from the bottle.

The Lift ‘n’ Peel easy open,half-moon pull tab of today consists of a twin construction of polyester that has been designed to be easy to grip, while remaining flexible and strong. It is now firmly established in the UK dairy industry, and later versions have since been introduced to enhance branding and promotional opportunities, via the introduction of ten-colour printing on both the seal’s surface and the pull tab, while the underside

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of the seal canal so be printed for special offers,competitions or prize draws.

The process of applying the liner to the container to achieve a hermetic,tamper evident, easily removable seal is accomplished by using an induction heating machine.

However, there are several key process conditions that must be met and maintained throughout the filling operation in order to guarantee successful container sealing on a fast-moving dairy filling line.

The process An induction heat seal liner is a highly engineered, laminated structure.Available as a one-piece construction, when bonded, it leaves no residual part of the liner bonded to the closure, unlike two-piece liners, which are initially bonded to the inside of the closure.

The two parts of a two-piece liner enclose a wax bonding layer and, when separated on heating, one part stays bonded to the closure, with the other bonded to the lip of the container. Both single and two-part liners are bonded by means of induction heat sealing,which is a non-contact method involving close control of three key parameters: pressure, heat, andtime. Pressure is needed for the liner to have an even seal to the lip of the container opening and this is achieved by the torque heads of the capper when placing the closure onto the filled container. Heat is applied via a magnetic induction process, which raises the temperature of the seal’s aluminum foil liner by means of eddy currents. Timing is crucial for a successful seal.

The timing intervals include the period when the closure passes beneath the induction coil and the

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following cooling period.

Sealing properly It is important to get the size and power of the induction seal equipment right, as it must produce sufficient heat around the induction liner in order to seal effectively for a given conveyor line speed. Measuring the temperature or temperature rise profile of the liner at the seal interfaces is not a practical proposition although it may be possible to calculate the energy delivered to the foil using real-time current and voltage measurements, and therefore come up with a statistical profile of the process.

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As a result, it may be more appropriate to engage with induction heating equipment supplier sat an early stage, so as to run timing and power trials, preferably at the supplier’s premises. It is worth noting here that, however well controlled the induction heating process, statistically there will be occasions when the sealing fails.

Due to imperfect container rims and this is something that can never be blamed on the induction equipment or the liner. The induction seal liner needs sufficient dwell time under the coil so as to be heated to the correct temperature for the polymer sealing surface to melt, and subsequently bond to the rim of the container.

Moreover, achieving a satisfactory bond between the seal and the rim of the container will be determined by the cooling time interval, as the bondcanonly develop properly on cooling. This is a critical stage in the process, requiring smooth handling of the containers to avoid any relative movement of the seal before it has fully bonded to the container. Once these process parameters have been established for a given linespeed,modern induction heat sealing equipment, coupled with the use of well-engineered liners, will ensure consistent and accurate results.

Overall, induction heat sealing is not just for the big producers and packers– the start-ups and smaller scale enterprises can take advantage of semi-automatic,even hand-held, induction machines as well, to apply state-of-the-art liners that will inspire both consumer confidence and loyalty.

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Integrated automation for the dairy industry The Saudi Arabian dairy company ALMARAI is the leading manufacturer of Dairy products in the Middle East. In 2014 the company entered into the nutritional foods category thanks to its Infant Nutritional facility near Riyadh. Acting as the general contractor, the GEA Group installed and commissioned the production equipment and ProLeiT AG, based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, was commissioned with the development of the automation software. The solution is based on Plant iT; special modules for both the continuous and the batch processes control the entire product flow in compliance with a standardised order list from the ERP system. The SAP system monitors the quality and the inventory of the raw materials, enables part processes and posts the finished product.

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ou have to set market trends to win customers. Increasing dairy industry requirements in terms of regulatory demands, quality assurance, water consumption, plant utilization, traceability and sustainability demand new approaches. The trend is towards highly automated processes from raw milk intake through processing to dispatch, as well as from the plant production control level to the business system and back. Integrated solutions are required to meet the demands of the integrated dairy. But the development of intelligent automation solutions for dairy industry companies demands more than just system know-how. Industry experience and knowledge about complex structures and processes in a dairy or cheese making environment are just as important.

Thanks to more than 20 years of experience in process automation for milk processing companies, the German solution provider for the process industry ProLeiT knows how to meet the extensive requirements of the dairy industry.

Integrated solutions with Plant iT With its in-house developed process control system Plant iTProLeiT boasts a proven solution for the integrated process automation of dairy and cheese making facilities. Plant iT is a modular process control system with fully integrated MES functionalities for all process areas in the dairy industry. The industry specific product features dairy processing know-how combined with cutting-edge information technology, enabling data transparency from the operational to the planning level and at all stages of value creation. The

seamless integration between Process Control and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) provide production managers with new opportunities to overview and control the entire process chain from raw material delivery to the packaged product.

Schematic presentation of processes in an industrial dairy plant via Plant iT Plant iT is scalable enough to be implemented initially upon a single unit or completely across the dairy, making it suitable for both greenfield and brownfield dairies. For brownfields, irrespective of existing systems and requirements, Plant iT can process information from all process and packaging areas and assumes integrated process management thanks to proven and defined interfaces. Plant iT can initially integrate “islands” without full re-automation by interlinking the controls and workflow in order to, for example, specify order parameters as well as record, analyse and send actual values to an ERP system in a condensed form.

ALMARAI cannot be compared to a European dairy which sources its raw milk from local farmers. The climate in Central Saudi Arabia demands short distances and on-time delivery.

ALMARAI is therefore responsible for the whole value creation process: from the production of feed and the production and processing of milk to delivery of the finished product to retailers.

Hundreds of thousands of cows are kept in super farms boasting the latest equipment.

Production begins with the receipt control of raw

ProLeiT usually applies its Plant LiquiT module, specially developed for continuous processes, to control recipes in dairy plants. However, the production at the infant nutritional facility demanded a large number of batch processes.

These processes can be best controlled with Plant Batch iT, ProLeiT’s recipe control for batch processes. Both recipe controls are 100% ProLeiT developments – just like all Plant iT basic systems and modules. The orders from the ERP system (SAP) are processed from a common list by the respective responsible module.

The ProLeiT developers have also created the

Plant iT in action: infant nutrition from the desert Numerous companies around the world, e.g.

ALMARAI, Danone, Bauer, Müller, Coca Cola (Tara), Friesland Campina or Pepsico (WimmBill-Dann), rely on ProLeiT and its process control system for the dairy industry.

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Process screen of Plant iT for spray towers All the materials used in the process are recorded in the inventory audit of the SAP system and the semi-finished and finished products are re-posted.

The reporting capability ensures the full tracking of production.

Furthermore, Plant iT can ensure compliance to quality parameters, the calculation of material consumption according to the order list and complete traceability of the entire production process in line with statutory regulations. Plant iT additionally supports IFS certification.

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handheld scanner masks for each sub-process to ensure that operators place the correct raw material in the correct position at the correct time. Each process is logged to facilitate subsequent tracking.

The additional module Plant Direct iTVisuRecorder records all the processes and signals in real time. The source of faults can be quickly detected using the process image history.

Three highly redundant servers are part of the automation system hardware. However, technically speaking, the entire system could run on a single central production server. PROFIBUS is used to network the controls and connect the frequency converters, but numerous field devices are also integrated via ASI Bus. Possible faults at ASI devices can be detected easily.

Before a process commences, checks are carried out to ensure all the relevant frequency inverters are in automatic mode.NijasPampadiyi, project director automation at Almarai IPNC, has nothing but praise for the plant construction: “Due to the flexible combination of the basic systems Plant LiquiT and Plant Batch iT, we needed considerably less steps than are usually required for projects of this size. This resulted in clearer mapping, easier programming of the sub-processes.”

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Increasing the Efficiency of the Dairy Animals

The positive impacts that follow on productivity, profitability and the environment.

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t is important to understand India’s position in the world dairy industry before attempting to consider how it’s overall efficiency can be improved.

Dr. Trevor Tomkins Chairman Dairy farming is a very smart dairy major sector within the world’s global agriculture.

It frequently receives unjustified criticism but also sometimes justified criticism. In this paper we will try to address these issues. Dairy farming if done efficiently has the potential to achieve major benefits for the population at large, the environment of the planet, and the prosperity of those directly involved in the industry. The worldwide dairy industry currently produces more than 770,000,000 metric tons of milk a year with an aggregate value worldwide of over US $355.5 billion. It is the top single largest agricultural commodity worldwide.

worldwide with the global transport industry.

That report was seriously erroneous and was fully debunked by Dr. Frank Mitloehner from the University of California – Davis. Livestock is not the major contributor to greenhouse gas production worldwide but the dairy industry was singled out as being a major culprit particularly in emerging markets where there is very low productivity per cow. FAO published a full retraction of their initial conclusions in 2010.

In India, today there are approximately 140 million dairy animals producing approximately 140 million metric tons of milk per annum and this relates to an average daily yield per cow of less than 3.5 liters. If one looks at sophisticated dairy industries in Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, cows are producing over 35 liters of milk per day and in some cases almost twice that amount. There is no reason why productivity can’t be moved to high levels here in India. Many of the issues also relate to the fact that in India today the feed efficiency of the dairy animal (described as kilograms of milk produced per kilogram of feed

dry matter intake) are less than 0.9 kilograms feed per kilogram milk whereas in the US the average is now above 1.5 kilograms of milk per kilogram of feed.

Milk and dairy products are highly nutrient dense foods providing protein, energy and micro nutrients. Milk is the fifth largest supplier of energy and the third largest supplier of protein and fat to the world’s population. The highest growth in demand is occurring in the Asia Pacific region and current production levels will not meet the increased demand in the next five years.

India is the world’s largest milk producer but is the least efficient with over 80% of all the dairy animals farmed by small scale producers who don’t have access to modern farming practices and modern farming technology. For the most part they don’t have access to the amounts of capital needed to build or expand and many operate only in informal markets without access to fair and formal markets. Also in India there has been widespread contamination and adulteration of milk and this in itself is a reflection on not only bad farming practices but also improperly maintained and regulated standards. If milk contamination and adulteration, including the widespread use of antibiotics continues, there will be a backlash from sophisticated consumers which puts the whole dairy industry in jeopardy. If the industry can move to being much more efficient it has the ability to provide high returns for livestock keepers and provides a regular income throughout the year. It is also a business where women can excel both on and off the farm.

The dairy industry in India has been very widely criticized because of the extremely low milk yields per cow with the concomitantvery high Green House Gas (GHG) production per liter of milk produced. Methane is 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and part of this criticism is indeed justified but better farming practices, access to appropriate capital in form of loans for farmers together with access to markets with shared value along the value chain, could do much to change this situation rapidly. Part of the criticism in terms of GHG emissions relate back to a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO and part of United Nations) that was published in 2006 – Livestock’s Long Shadow. This report fueled the debate about the negative impact of livestock on the planet and compared the livestock industry

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Table 1: Comparison of Efficiency of the Indian and US dairy industries The principal problem facing the Indian dairy Cont, on pg no. 32

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industry is that dairy animal nutrition is extremely poor. Dairy animals are seriously underfed and what they are being fed is of very low digestibility and deficient in both digestible energy and digestible proteins. In turn that is compounded by extremely poor infrastructure for keeping dairy animals. We now understand that cow comfort is a very critical component of improved dairy efficiency. We also understand today that very poor milk quality relates not only to lack of machine milking but also to lack of rapid cooling of milk once it is produced. And then there are the problems of very low management, very low use of real records and managing with data.

Finally, poor nutrition and management leads to poor reproduction and so dairy animals are not calving once a year and heifers are not calving at 24 months of age. All of which drag down the efficiency of the industry.

A not unfamiliar scene as one travels the country.

Animals are kept in unsanitary conditions and seriously underfed as one can see by looking

at body condition.This situation of poor infrastructure and nutrition is in part exacerbated by the lack of access farmers have to capital to be able to invest in modern infrastructure and technology. Financial institutions need confidence in the security of their loans but without a farmer’s ability to produce high quality milk to produce a guaranteed income, financial institutions are wary about expanding their loan portfolios. Another net result is that young people are not encouraged to enter the dairy industry because they don’t want to work in hard conditions with low incomes as previous generations have done.

Finally, there is very limited formal market access in many parts of the country. It is suggested that less than 30% of all milk produced is sold through formal markets. It’s not uncommon to see very badly contaminated and dirty milk being processed in ‘bathtub’ operations with very bad lack of hygiene standards and this in itself puts consumers in major health risks.

Curd being prepared in unhygienic conditions Mitigating against the problems All the problems described can be mitigated against

The essence of the Economic Farming Unit (EFU) is that it should be low cost and simple to manage and operate. Cows should have comfort including shade and protection and be protected from mud during times of heavy rainfall (cows wallowing in mud and being hand milked is a sure opportunity for very significant mastitis problems). Cows should have proper feeding bunks, there should be machine milking and rapid milk cooling. Milk should be cooled to 4 degrees C within one hour of milking and cows should have plentiful access to fresh, clean water. if there is a concerted effort. The concerted effort starts with understanding that the efficiency of the dairy animal depends on it being fed a balanced ration which consists of the appropriate amount of digestible energy, digestible protein and micro nutrients. There is a plethora of well researched information which now has moved feeding the dairy animal from ‘art’ to very precise science.

In 2001 the publication Nutrient Requirements of the Dairy Cow summarized the current state of

science. The author of this article was privileged to be part of the authorship of that publication.

The critical key performance indicator (KPI) to understand is Feed Efficiency. We must maximize the kilograms of milk produced per kilogram of feed consumed so that we spread the maintenance requirement of the dairy animal over the largest possible amount of milk that the animal can produce. The best herds on efficient farms in the US and Europe are now doing over 1.7 kilograms of milk per kilogram of feed. Here in India it is likely less than 1 kilogram of milk per kilogram of feed although the data is limited. As milk yield increases of course the amount of methane produced per liter of milk reduces dramatically.

The key to helping make these changes is also a properly constructed infrastructure that allows cows to be kept in comfort and to be machine milked.

Appropriate infrastructure and machine milking also has an additional benefit in that banks now see tangible and appropriate assets which when managed properly will produce significant returns.

The concept that banks like is that of Economic Farming Units. An Economic Farming Unit is one that produces an above GDP income. Here in India the optimum sized Economic Farming Unit for a family is somewhere in the region of 24 cows and such a unit can be built and stocked with reasonable quality breeding stock for less than INR 2,900,000 ($45,000 USD). Of course smaller units from 6 cows to 12 to 18 also can produce very high quality milk but it is more difficult to achieve levels of disposal income with such units.

Example of a relatively low cost Economic Farming Unit Animal Nutrition 70% of the success of a dairy farm relates to the

prices are high that one should cut back on feed and produce less milk. All that does unfortunately is lower the efficiency of milk production and at the same time reduce profitability. The graph in

quality of the nutrition of the cows. If a cow is to be fed a balanced ration one must first of all know the analysis of the feed itself in terms of its nutritional component. Currently it is very difficult to find the appropriate numbers for common feedstuffs and it is also difficult to find nutritionists who have the ability to balance rations. The ideal components of a good ration are that a highly digestible forage content should be between 60 and 70% and this can be silage, good quality hay, green chop or under some conditions grazing.

Ideally the dairy animal should be fed a total mixed ration (TMR) and the animals should have feed in front of them 24 hours a day.

Figure 1 below shows very clearly that as you increase milk production, the feed costs increase but the overhead cost hardly changes but the overall profitability of the operation increases significantly. This is a fundamental point that must be understood by the dairy farmer and the

An ideal total mixed ration looks like a perfect birds nest and prevents cows sorting components It’s also essential that there is always sufficient feedstuffs available so that the farmer has adequate reserves during the dry season. Silage is the perfect way of conserving fodder and it is not difficult to produce.

Energy Conservation Another key addition to an efficient modern dairy farm is the conversion of manure into biogas and in turn the biogas used to power a generator to produce the electricity needed for the small farm.

Biogas Digester Methane has 20 times the GHG warming potential of carbon dioxide, but when burned to heat water or to generate power, its warming potential is reduced by a factor of 20.

Profitability It is also very critical to understand that the profitability of the dairy animal or the dairy farm is totally related to the volume of milk produced and sold. It is often wrongly believed that when feed

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Figure 1More Milk = More Profit Putting it all together In Table 2 below we show clearly what is possible here in India. In 5 years’ time it is estimated that the demand for milk here will exceed 200 million metric tons a year. If that number is to be achieved, then there has to be a substantial shift in the yield per cow. It is the author’s conjecture that by increasing the yield from 1 ton per cow per year (3.3 liters per cow per day to 7.5 liters per cow per day or better to 17 liters per cow per day which is perfectly possible) that 200 million metric tons of milk could be produced by almost a quarter of the number of dairy animals. This would in itself make a very substantial difference to the current high levels of greenhouse gas emissions by the dairy industry but more important it would solve many of the other problems related to milk quality, feed efficiency and the overall profitability of the dairy industry. So the challenge to the Indian dairy industry is to start to move the industry to Economic Farming Units. At the same time address the issues of feed efficiency by developing scientific feeding programs. There should also be attempts to clean up milk quality.

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s we move towards the end of 2016, milk supply volumes from the largest seven dairy export regions have fallen by an estimated 2.6m tonnes, compared to the second half of 201 S. In the same period, exports from these regions will have fallen by a staggering 4.km tonnes.

Milk production around the world in 2H 2016 is in poor shape. Europe’s production has tightened not only due to low prices, but also in response to the

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Global summary efforts of the European subsidies, which if farmers deliver on their commitments should remove a millions tonnes of milk from the market. In New Iealand, the poor start to the season has affected farmers’ ability to respond, with this season’s peak production period being 6% down on last year’s level. Production growth is also struggling in Australia, where the market is still reverberating from the price falls at the end of last season. In South America, Brazilian production has started to recover from the large production drop-off seen

in late 2015/early 2016, but the second half of 2016 is still likely to see a 1.5% decline on last year’s levels. Argentina has been far worse, with rising costs and severe flooding in 2016 forcing many producers to quit, meaning double-digit production decline continues. Farmers in China have also continued to struggle, with indicators suggesting the departure of small and mediumsized farms has been significant. Decline in production in Inner Mongolia (responsible for 21% of Chinese production) was reportedly 16% for the first three quarters. The exception is the US, where strengthening producer margins have meant that it is the only major export region able

to compensate for tightening global supplies, with exports up 9% in Q3.

While stock build was a major feature earlier in 2016, demand in export regions has remained positive. This is particularly the case in the US, where low unemployment, low Oil anticipated economic stimulus added to robust consumer confidence, fuelling demand for cheese, butter, and cream products.

The result of the tightening global production in FH 2016 is that stockbuilding has ceased and prices have started to rise sharply, with butterfat prices rising more sharply than protein.

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As these prices filter through to farmers, reduced cow numbers and production conditions are likely to cause a lag in response, creating further upward pressure on price.

A key factor will be what happens to the accumulated sell-side stocks, in particular skimmed milk powder in Europe and higher- than-normal levels of cheese in the US. Despite likely higher levels of exports to China as we move into the new year’s very low tariff—rate quota, demand from other important regions is likely to remain subdued.

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The European Commission, encouraged by strong local spot prices, has decided to start selling stocks before the end of the year.

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Milk Quality Experts from 22 Countries attend NMC Annual Meeting

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early 400 milk quality, mastitis and udder health researchers, dairy producers and dairy industry partners attended the 56thNational Mastitis Council (NMC) Annual Meeting held Jan. 28-31, in St. Pete Beach, Fla. Twenty percent of this year’s attendees represented 21 countries other than the United States. The event upheld its tradition of offering a platform for international discussion and sharing mastitis research and other research on milk quality innovation and expertise.

“The NMC Annual Meeting continues to provide a forum for the global exchange of information regarding milk quality, udder health and mastitis prevention, treatment and control,” says Mario Lopez, new NMC board president, annual meeting program chair and DeLaval technology manager milk quality animal health. “This meeting of international industry members helps the dairy industry move forward in communicating the virtues of milk, importance of producing and marketing quality dairy products, and communicating with consumers.”

This year’s discussions included sustainable dairy food systems, value-added opportunities for milk, genomics, mastitis prevention, optimizing udder health through facility design, mastitis and environmental interface, and dry period mastitis prevention and control. In addition to the general session presentations, attendees had the opportunity to take 12 different short courses and three workshops, with more than 225 people enrolled in the additional learning opportunities.

NMC recognized several milk quality experts during its annual meeting. Robert Harmon, University of Kentucky professor emeritus received the NMC Award of Excellence for Contribution to Mastitis Prevention and Control.

He chaired the NMC Research Committee from 1983 through 1998. His 1994 Journal of Dairy Science manuscript, “Physiology of mastitis and factors affecting somatic cell counts,” is considered a foundation reference for the field of mastitis research and has 782 citations.

In the National Dairy Quality Awards program, NMC honored six dairy operations as Platinum winners. Judges select top dairy producers to receive this honor based on quality milk production indicators, such as somatic cell count and bacteria count, along with milking routine, systems of monitoring udder health, treatment protocols and strategies for overall herd health and welfare. These top-quality milk producers included: Bailey Dairy (Mike, Jean, Brent, Brock and Nelda Bailey), Tomah, Wis.; Country Aire Farms (Tom and Mike Gerrits), Kaukauna, Wis.; Simon Dairy (Larry, Therese, Brent and Emily Simon), Westphalia, Mich.; Tollgate Holsteins (Jim and Karen Davenport), Ancramdale, N.Y.; University of Wisconsin-Marshfield Agricultural Research Station, Marshfield, Wis.; and VisionAire Farms (Roger, Sandy and David Grade, and Travis and Janet Clark), Eldorado, Wis. For the 10th consecutive year, NMC awarded travel scholarships to four outstanding graduate students to attend the NMC Annual Meeting. This year’s NMC Scholars were Sefinew Mekonnen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Kruthika Patel, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.; Rienkje van Hoeij, Wageningen University,

Wageningen, The Netherlands; and Amy Vasquez, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. NMC initiated the NMC Scholars program to support the development of mastitis research and milk quality professionals from around the world.

NMC thanks its annual meeting sponsors who contributed to the program’s success. Diamond sponsors were Boehringer Ingelheim, Elanco Animal Health, GEA, Merck Animal Health, Merial Ltd. and Zoetis. Platinum sponsors were DeLaval, Inc., Ecolab, Inc., Foremost Farms USA and Land O’Lakes, Inc. Gold sponsors included Alltech, Central Life Sciences, Dairy

Farmers of America and Hypred. Silver sponsors were ABS Global. Inc., Ambic Equipment Ltd, BouMatic, Christian Hill Dairy, Fight Bac/Deep Valley Farm, Inc., Grande Cheese, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, PortaCheck, Inc. and Udder Tech, Inc. Sponsoring this year’s milk breaks were Sutter’s Quality Foods and Consorzio de Parmigiano Reggiano.

Boehringer Ingelheim sponsors this award that recognizes an NMC member for sustained contribution to mastitis prevention and control through research, extension or education, clinical practice or service to producers.

Most thought that the Commission would wait until the price strengthened .further and the subsidies they are paying to reduce production come to an end. Many are questioning if the Commission is able to sell the year-old powder it is offering to the market while demand for protein remains weak.

The problem is likely to become more apparent as the new year progresses and farmers respond to higher farmgate prices, limiting the level of any SMP and CWP price rises.

As we move into 2017, therefore, we see prices of butterfat products continuing to be elevated, with cheese and butter prices continuing to climb, but with more stagnant protein prices.

As the year progresses and production grows, commodity prices will start to moderate, limited by the headwinds of a strong US dollar and probably continued low oil prices.

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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

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

Dr. Harsev Singh CEO Reliance Industries,

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

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

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