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Around 2400 delegates including 600 farmers attend 44th DIC at NDRI karnal

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he 44th Dairy Industry Conference was organised by the Indian Dairy Association (NZ) during Feb 18-20, 2016 at NDRI, Karnal based on the theme ‘Make in India: Dairying 2030.’ The chief guests were Dr N.R.Bhasin, Shri. T. Nanda Kumar, Shri R.S. Sodi, and Dr. Harjinder Singh.

Around 2318 delegates were registered inclusive of 600 farmers. Twelve technical sessions were held during the conference and six eminent speakers who shared their thoughts on various topics were Dr V Prakash, Director of Research, Innovation and Development, MVP, JSS, Mysore, Dr Harjinder Singh, Director, Massey Institute of Food Science and Technology, Massey, New Zealand, Dr Manohar Garg, Director, Nutraceuticals Research Group, Australia, Dr Mc Sweeney Paul, Prof. University College Cork Ireland, Dr Nico Van Belzen, Director General,

International Dairy Federation, The Netherlands, Dr Nagendra Shah, Prof. Food Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

The eynote speaker was T Nanda Kumar, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Anand and a significant feature of the event was the four sessions held exclusively for farmers.

On this Occassion Dr. Kurien Award was presented to Shri ParthiBhai G Bhatol Ex. Chairman of the GCMMF for his outstandin service to Indian dairy. industry also fellowships were awarded to Dr. R.Rajendra Kumar, Dr, Bhupinder Singh, Shri N.B Marathe, Dr. Padmanabha Reddy, Dr. P.N Thakkar, Dr. H.K Desai, Shri Ravi Shankar and Shri K.L Arora A Special Dr. V Kurien memorial oration was delivered

by Dr. S.Ayyappan Seceratry DARE & DG, ICAR. Young Scientist, best poster presentation awards were given along with felicitation of women dairy farmers.

The evening concluded with a cultural programme.

The valedictory function was delivered by Dr Nico Van Belzen, International Dairy Federation, The Netherlands and Dr Nagendra Shah, Prof. Food Science and Technology, Hong Kong who were the guest of honour and other members such as Dr A K Srivastava , Director was also present on the occasion.

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‘Dairy Times’ Bi-Monthly Newspaper launched during DIC

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airy Times, the dairy Bi-monthly supplement was launched at the 44th Dairy Industry Conference (DIC). The Dairy Industry was organised by the Indian Dairy Association (NZ) at NDRI Karnal, Haryana. The first Issue was brought to the audience by Dr. J V Parekh and the team of Advance Info Media and Events, Mumbai.

The Bi-Monthly supplement was inaugurated

by Dr NR Bhasin, President, IDA, R S Sodhi, Managing Director, Amul and other dignitaries on the dais. Around 2400 attendees from the dairy industry participated in the event. The 44th DIC was held in National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal. Previously, IDA had organised such

exhibitions on dairy and dairy Products processing which saw participation of giants from the industry from India and abroad.

Dairy Times is the only newspaper in the entire South-Asia.The target readership for the newspaper will comprise dairy and dairy products manufacturers apart from large number of allied sectors from processing to packaging, dairy ingredients to raw materials and from automation to food safety industries.The launch received a huge response from the industry.It’s Editor-InChief is Dr J V Parekh and Group Editor is Firoz H Naqvi.

45th DIC is expected to take place in Mumbai ,next year.

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Odisha's 'Milk Mantra' in talks with Samara Capital to raise Rs 200 cr

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ilk Mantra Dairy Pvt. Ltd, an Odishabased company, is in talks with private equity firm Samara Capital to raise Rs.200 crore to fund its expansion, according to two officials. The company, whose products include milk, buttermilk, curd and milkshakes under the Milky Moo brand is backed by Fidelity

Growth Partners, which will exit through the new fund-raising round. The promoters will also divest some stake to raise growth capital for the company. The new investor will acquire a significant minority stake in Milk Mantra, one of the officials said, on condition of anonymity. Milk Mantra has hired advisory firm KPMG India to find potential investors, another official said, also on condition of anonymity. The firm’s revenue was about Rs.100 crore in FY15; the deal is expected to be signed at a valuation of Rs.500 crore, the second person added. With this funding, Milk Mantra which already markets ready-to-drink milk beverage MooShake in markets such as Bengaluru, plans for a pan-India presence. In 2014, Milk Mantra raised series C funding of Rs.80 crore, led

by Fidelity Growth Partners India and Aavishkaar India II Co. Ltd. The transaction provided an exit to angel investors and Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund. When contacted, Sri kumar Misra, the company’s managing director and chief executive officer, refused to speak about the fundraising plans. Mails sent to Fidelity and Samara Capital spokespersons remain unanswered. A KPMG India spokesperson, too, declined to comment. Vineet Rai, chief executive officer and managing director, Aavishkar Inc., a venture capital firm focussed on India’s rural areas and underserved parts, said it had no immediate plans to exit Milk Mantra. Founded in 2009, Milk Mantra collects milk from a network of more than 20,000 farmers across more than 500 villages. In 2014, it acquired Westernland Dairy in Sambalpur, to get access to western Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh markets.

The firm currently has two processing plants at Konark and Sambalpur districts in Odisha.

Demand for milk in India is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 5% from 138 million tonnes (MT) in 2014 to 200 MT in 2022, according to the National Dairy Development Board, this has drawn attention of several international firms and private equity investors. “Strong demand prospects in Indian dairy, driven by formalisation of the basic dairy products and growth of the value-added dairy products, will continue to attract private equity and strategic investors. Companies with strong milk procurement infrastructure and direct farm engagement will be the intended targets for acquisition and partnerships. These companies will also attract premium on the valuations,” says Shiva Mudgil, senior dairy analyst and vice-president, food and agribusiness research and advisory at Rabobank. Earlier this month, GroupeLactalis SA, the world’s-largest dairy player, made its second buyout in India by acquiring the dairy division of Indore-based diversified public listed Anik Industries Ltd for Rs.470 crore. Anik Industries’ dairy division markets products such as spraydried milk, ghee, skimmed milk powder and whole milk under Anik and Sourabh brands. In 2014, the $18-billion Lactalis had acquired a 100% stake in Hyderabad-based Tirumala Milk Products Pvt. Ltd from its founders and private equity firm The Carlyle Group in a deal worth $270 million.

IDFC Alternatives’ $28.8 million investment in Parag Milk Foods Pvt. Ltd in 2012; a $25 million investment in Prabhat Dairy Ltd by Rabobank’s India Agribusiness Fund and French development finance institution Proparco in 2013; and Cargill Ventures’ $20.3 million investment in Dodla Dairy Ltd in 2012 are among the larger deals that have been concluded in the sector.

AERC reviews potential for dairy industry in the east

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allabhVidyanagar based Agro-Economic Research Centre (AERC) will study the status of dairying in the eastern states of the country. The study will also assess the potential to improve socio-economic status of the milk producers of selected states of the country.

Based on a request made by the Anandheadquartered National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of Government of India has sponsored the study with AERC being designated as lead institution to carry out the coordinated study in the states of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, 27 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

In this regard, an all India workshop was held at AERC recently which witnessed participation by directors and representatives of AERC Jorhat, Bhagalpur, Waltair, Jabalpur, Allahabad, VishwaBharati and officers of NDDB. "Like the Government of India's programme -

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Bringing Green Revolution in Eastern India - a similar focused programme for the dairy sector could also be considered," NDDB chairman T Nanda Kumar, said while inaugurating the workshop.

He hoped that outcome of the study would be helpful in formulating appropriate policy leading to accelerated dairy development in the eastern region of India.

"The spatial growth in milk production in the country has not been evenly distributed. NDDB analysis suggests that eastern part of the country has not kept in pace with the growth achieved elsewhere in the country. This appears paradoxical as eastern region has relatively superior resource endowment like availability of fodder, water, irrigation, manpower, etc required for promotion of milk production," a release issued by NDDB stated, adding that it believes that a focussed programme for accelerating growth in milk production in the eastern region should be implemented.

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India seeks New Zealand's aid for Dairy Industry processing industry had been enabled to obtain 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI).

rime Minister Narendra Modi sought New Zealand's co-operation in the dairy industry during a bilateral meeting with his recent New Zealand counterpart John Key .

Discussions between the Indian and New Zealand prime ministers also involved trade issues.

"The prime minister talked about our interest in having dairy technology from New Zealand," external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup informs.

Modi's meeting with Key was held on the sidelines of the fourth and final edition of the biennial Nuclear Security Summit, the first of which was held in 2010.

"As you know, New Zealand is one of the world leaders in food processing. Prime minister said that India was one of the world's largest producers

of milk," Swarup says Modi said that when it came to processing milk, India was not too good and New Zealand could find a very good market in India, as the food

"The New Zealand prime minister said that they had concluded a very successful FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with China, some years back and he was very keen on signing an FTA with India as well," Swarup says.

The two prime ministers also discussed the promotion of tourism between the two countries

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given Bollywood's interest in New Zealand.

Modi also told Key that more and more Indian students should be encouraged to study in New Zealand as they felt safe there.

He then said that New Zealand could follow Australia's example of attracting Indian students.

Modi arrived in New Zeland on the second leg of his three-nation tour on Wednesday night from Brussels where he attended the 13th IndiaEuropean Union (EU) Summit and held a bilateral meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.

Leaders of 53 nations and four international organisations are attended the Nuclear Security Summit.

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Pricing Trends in Dairy Products: 2016 Domestic milk and milk products price:

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airy farmers of Telangana urged the government to increase the production capacity of the Vijaya dairy and introduce more welfare programmes for dairy farmers.

Amul opens two milk processing units Archana Aroor, Mumbai

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ujarat-based giant Amul is planning to open two milk processing units in Kanpur and Lucknow respectively, this year.

These units are expected to be operational within six months.“We are setting up two milk processing units with Lucknow and Kanpur as our locations,” R S Sodhi informed Beverages and Food Processing Times Magazine.Sodhi explained that the setting up of milk processing units was on the sidelines of company’s continuous investment plans every year adding that the total investments

Telangana Govt urges to ramp up Vijaya Dairy output

for each milk unit was around Rs 200 crore.

Not only this, Amul is also eyeing to open milk processing units in certain other districts in and around Gujarat such as Amreli. “Every Year we have plans to invest continuously around Rs 600800 Crores as part of our expansions,” he added he said for further that the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) had around 60 milk processing units spread across the country.

And he stressed that the company was expecting Rs 23, 000 Crore in sales by the end of financial year and the rise in revenue was due to increase in volume.

Progressive Dairy Farmers Association President M Jitender Reddy told media that the state required 40 lakh litres of milk every day in which Vijaya dairy is able to procure and market only four lakh litres of milk. “The production of Vijaya dairy has remained the same for the last 10 years,” he said.

Jitender Raddy said that in the last 10 years, private milk competitors had occupied the market and left Vijaya dairy in a pathetic condition. "If the situation is allowed to continue, then the government will soon have to shut down Vijaya dairy's operations,” he said.

The dairy farmers appealed to the government

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to show some concern to the sector and provide subsidy on electricity and feed for animals. Jitender Raddy said that young people were running away from dairy profession. “With the poor standards of dairy farming, no youth is showing interest to invest in this sector,” he added.

The members pointing out at the corrupt practices of some of the local officials of Vijaya dairy said that in a few procurement centres in rural areas, officials were procuring milk from nonlocal farmers and providing incentive meant for local farmers.

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Amul to help JKMPCL improve infra, apply cooperative model

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ujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), that owns the milk brand Amul, will be facilitating Jammu and Kashmir Milk Producer's Cooperative Limited (JKMPCL) in upgrading its infrastructure to process additional milk at its plants, besides helping it to emulate the cooperative model for its working to improve livelihood of dairy farmers.

Interacting with a Press Information Bureau led media delegation from Kashmir Valley, Dhiraj Kumar Choudhary, Manager Technical and Projects at Amul said that since 2004 they had been sharing their technical expertise with JKMPCL owned plants at Srinagar and Jammu to run them on profitable lines.

He said that additional machinery would soon be in place at both the plants located at Chashme shahi in Srinagar and Satwari in Jammu to increase the processing capacity of the plants.

“Apart from this they are expanding their milk collection capacity in Kupwara district in Kashmir as well as Rajouri in Jammu. This will give better remuneration to the dairy farmers in these areas,” Choudhary said .

He added that the aim of this up-gradation was not only to make available hygienic milk to the consumers, but also to implement the cooperative pattern of Amul, which ensures dairy farmers getting better price for their produce.

Choudhary said that the purpose of Amul Cooperative model since its inception was to end the influence of middlemen to determine the price of milk and give the farmers or dairy owners a say in pricing of milk. Amul Cooperative model was founded by Dr Verghese Kurien in 1946. “We may be processing a minuscule amount of milk in Jammu and Kashmir as compared to what we do at Gujrat, but this has made a significant contribution to the farmers as private players too are now offering them better remuneration for their milk,” he said.

He added that Gujarat type of collection system was presently operational in Jammu and Kashmir where automatic testing equipment has been added at the centres and prices are paid the farmers according to quality of the milk.

“The model that has been put in place in Jammu and kashmir will itself take care of needs of farmers.

We are also offering veterinary consultation to dairy farmers and providing them feed too,” he added.

Anil Bayati OSD at the Amul Fed dairy, one of the largest milk processing plants of India situated at Ghandignar, said that the milk generation potential of Kashmir was significant given its cold climate.

He said that contrary to the decline of milk in summers across India, Kashmir witnesses a surge and given that if production was increased this milk could be utilised aptly.

He said that the federation would also explore possibilities of utilising the fresh fruits as well as nuts produced in the state to be used for a wide range of products produced by Amul.

The officials said that increasing milk production was vital to tackle the malnutrition in children.

Indian Dairy Co's cheer for cheese export to Russia

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ndia’s long-winding negotiations with Russia for accessing its large market for dairy products may finally ended with the Russian quality control department, FSVPS, agreeing to the independent disease control mechanism adopted by the dairies wanting to export, earlier the Indian officials from the Commerce Ministry, together with top Indian dairy companies such as Amul and Parag, had convinced Russia’s FSVPS to focus on quality control measures adopted by Indian dairies and its effectiveness instead of number of cattle

owned by them, in a meeting between FSVPS officials and the Commerce Ministry Indian side explained in detail the disease control and vaccination programmes followed by veterinarians working for dairies in their catchment areas.

The Russian officials were also expected to consult their agriculture university on the safety and efficacy of these measures. They were asked to verify and see for themselves that the areas and services by the vets have been disease-free. .

Cap on cattles goes Interestingly, Russia, which had put the condition that it would source cheese from only those dairies that owned at least 1,000 cattle, had agreed to India’s condition that the requirement of a captive cattle farm be reviewed after six months as most dairies did not have such farms.

But the Indian government had second thoughts and wanted the issue of captive cattle farms settled before any export happened as it feared that the matter may not be addressed later.

All the above issues were finaliy resolved in a recent meeting.

India is trying to grab a share of Russia’s annual imports of food items from Western countries, which is to the tune of $40 billion. Since Moscow has banned import of most food products from the West because of acrimony over the on-going Ukrainian crisis, New Delhi wants to cash in on the opportunity.

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Merial and Zoetis inks pact for dairy products in India

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erial, the animal health division of Sanofi, and Zoetis India Limited, a subsidiary of Zoetis Inc, have entered into an exclusive marketing and distribution agreement for medicines and vaccines for Dairy cattle in India. Merial will market and sell Zoetis’ products, including global/local brands such as Bovical, Lutalyse, XnelDectomax and vaccines like Rispoval and Spirovac. The products will be marketed by Merial India in April 2016. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

“The newly added products complement Merial’s existing ruminant business in India, which includes vaccines, therapeutics and nutritionals. It increases our presence in the important dairy segment and expands our current product offerings. We now have a robust portfolio that has strong customer loyalty, making us a key player in the rapidly growing India ruminant market,” says Sandeep Karkhanis, Country Manager, Merial India. “For Merial, this agreement reinforces the strategic importance of India and the animal health market in the country. We plan to keep our focus and investment in product innovation, acquisitions and alliances, growth areas and services to meet the evolving needs of our customers, Karkhanis adds.”

In India, Merial has a diversified local portfolio of over 50 brands comprising vaccines, therapeutics and nutritional products for ruminants, poultry and pets.

Ketan Dhamanaskar, Managing Director, India, GM South Asia, Zoetis adds, “This agreement helps both companies use the strengths of our product portfolios and market strategies to grow in a more effective way. Zoetis’ leading dairy brands and innovative vaccines, combined with the strong distribution reach and presence of Merial in India, will enable us to make these products available in

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the most efficient manner in the Indian market.

As a result of this arrangement, Zoetis India Limited will also be able to focus its field force and resources on building a stronger presence and market leadership in the Poultry and Companion Animal sectors in India, which grew at 18.6% and 12.8% respectively in 2015.”

India is the world’s largest milk producer, with 16 per cent of global production. Therefore, presence in the ruminant business is strategically important for Merial in India as it constitutes 54 percent of the animal health market in the country.

In 2014, the ruminant health market in India was valued at € 240 M. The Dairy sector continues to be a major livelihood source for rural India and a significant contributor to the country’s agricultural economy. As per the industry estimates, the share of value added dairy products in the milk and milk derivatives segment is growing by around 25% every year and it is expected to continue to grow at the same rate until 2019.

India is the sixth largest chicken producing country in the world with annual production of more than 2 billion broilers and is the third largest egg producing country with 4 million+ metric tons eggs produced in 2015. The India poultry market is expected to grow at 14.4% in the next five years.

Consumption of poultry meat and eggs also witnessed bourgeoning growth at 2.7 to 4.2% year on year in the past 5 years and is expected to grow at an accelerated pace in the next five years.

Companion animal is a small but rapid growing market in India, with a total estimate of 15 Million dogs and cats, growing at 9%-10% Year-on-Year, coupled with the increasing pet owner spending, India companion animal market has potential and it is poised to grow in the next five years.

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Budget 2016: Organised dairies Experts voice-for white to add capacities revolution in eastern states

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rganised dairies are considering capacity additions in view of the Budget announcement on an allocation of Rs 850 crore for dairy-related projects and the government’s ambitious target for electrifying all of India’s villages by 2018. Better milk production coupled with availability of power will boost rural demand and that is motivating dairy players to boost processing capacities.

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o increase production of milk in the country, there is a need to extend the famed White Revolution from the northern parts of the country to the eastern states, experts say.

"President Pranab Mukherjee has mentioned the need for bringing Green Revolution in the east, this will create animal feed and can help in extending the White Revolution in the region," states National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Chairman T Nanda Kumar.

He said that both milk production and consumption are very low in the eastern states, “However, with the support of state governments, these hurdles can be overcome by creating strong veterinary services, 24/7 power supply, good infrastructure like roads and facility to keep frozen semen for better breeds," he adds.

NDDB has taken up Jharkhand and Assam as model states for raising milk production and has

become successful, he mentions.

Echoing similar view, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federations Managing Director R S Sodhi said milk cooperatives in Gujarat remained the only industry in the world which gives back almost 80 per cent of the market price of milk to the farmers as against 30 per cent globally.

Other milk cooperatives in the country also ensured the farmer gets a return of around 70 per cent of the market price, he asserts.

"This way the farmer earns more and it is incentivised to produce more milk. It helps meet the rapidly growing demand for milk, thanks to the nutritional needs of much of India and the gradual shift from cereals to milk products on account of growing affluence," he adds.

He said that the move from unorganised to organised was very important as it would ensure better price realisation for farmers and also enhances quality.

Mahindra & Mahindra launches milk in Indore

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uto-to-aerospace conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra has launched milk in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, expanding the offerings from its agricultural divison that already sells pulses, fruits and oilseeds.

The company said that it would sell milk under its Saboro brand in Indore for some months, before launching the product in capital Bhopal and other big cities of the state. It will eventually enter other dairy products, according to a top executive.

"Our Saboro milk, which comes in four variants, will be sold in the range of Rs 35-50 a litre," says Ashok Sharma, CEO-Agri and Africa and South Asia Operations at M&M. "We will provide assurance of cream and nutrition, which came out as the two biggest requirements during our research with customers in Indore. Also, all our milk variants are specially fortified with Vitamin A and D," he says.

M&M's agricultural division has seen sales of

pulses and oilseeds grow 50% since launch in 2015. The division, which has also become one of India's biggest grape exporters, expects to clock a turnover of Rs 900 crore in the current fiscal.

The company said that it had put in place a technologically advanced milk collection supply chain around 70 villages near Indore where it was working directly with farmers. The milk will be processesd in Indore. "To begin with, we will process 10,000 litre of milk a day and take it to 50,000 litre a day," says Sharma.

India's milk production is estimated to increase to 146.31 million tonne in 2015-16. The per capita availability of milk has increased to 302 gm, according to the agriculture ministry.

Unbranded milk and dairy segment accounts for 75-80% of India's Rs 4-lakh crore dairy market, according to industry estimates.

NDRI develops DNA-based kits to detect adulteration in milk & ghee or the firsttime the scientists at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) have claimed to develop two DNA-based kits for determining adulteration in ghee and milk.

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NDRI, said a team of scientists headed by Dr Sachinandan De, Principal Scientist of Animal Biotechnology Centre, NDRI, had developed the two kits.

Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh launched the two kits at the NDRI auditorium recently.

He asserted that the kits would give the results in less than eight hours and it could even detect the minor mixing of products.

While the first kit will help detect the mixing of cow and buffalo ghee and butter, the second kit will help identify the milk of cow, buffalo, sheep, goat or camel.

Dr De said that under the process, the nucleic acids were isolated from milk somatic cells, which helped determine the DNA of the animal.

Apart from the two DNA-based kits, the NDRI also released three other products - Nutrimix, Aloevera Whey Drink, and Mishti Doi.

Giving further details, Dr AK Srivastava, Director,

Dairies process about 20 per cent of India’s milk production (146 million tonnes) at the moment.

With the rise in rural demand, an additional processing capacity of two-five per cent might come up as there is a potential for an additional three to seven mt processing capacity for dairy, entailing an investment of a few thousand crores, explained an industry official.

The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) had announced a plan to invest Rs 5,000 crore to set up 10 processing plants that would take its processing capacity to 32 millionmlpd litres per day (mlpd) from 15 mlpd.

R S Khanna, chairman, Kwality Limited, a leading dairy player with a portfolio of value-added dairy products, felt the move to boost productivity coupled with the target to achieve 100 per cent rural electrification by 2018 would mean higher consumption as well. “With better roads and power, rural demand for value-added dairy products is set to increase. As such the sector now accounts for nearly 70-75 per cent of the country’s cold-chain infrastructure. With power reaching villages, and options to install deep freezers, rural consumption of products like ice creams is set to rise,”Khanna says.

He said 50 per cent of India’s milk production remains in its villages, and of the remaining 50 per cent that is sold, the organised sector processes only 20 per cent.

Crisil said in its analysis that the organised channel would invest around Rs 15,000 crore by financial year 2018 to shore up capacity to around 105 mlpd, or a 40-per cent jump over FY15.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitely had also said that to make dairying more remunerative to farmers, four new projects would be taken up; first, the ‘Pashudhan Sanjivani’, an animal wellness programme and provision of Animal Health Cards (‘Nakul Swasthya Patra’); second, an advanced breeding technology; third, creation of ‘E-Pashudhan Haat’, an E-market portal for connecting breeders and farmers; and fourth, a National Genomic Centre for indigenous breeds.

These projects will be implemented at a cost of Rs 850 crore over the next few years.

R S Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF says, "New measures will boost dairy productivity."

He said as such average productivity per animal per day in India was around four litres, which is lower than in countries like New Zealand and Australia, where it is around 20-25 litres per day per animal.

Sodhi further added that the move to connect breeders with farmers through an e-market would mean that the role of the middlemen was reduced, and in turn, would offer more value deals for farmers. "States like Gujarat are a big market for cattle, and breeders from Maharashtra and Punjab come here to sell cattle. The benefit goes to traders, but now, farmers are likely to benefit."

India ranks first in milk production, accounting for 18.5 per cent of world production, achieving an annual output of 146.3 mt during 2014-15 as compared to 137.69 mt during 2013-14, a growth of 6.26 per cent.

Get more mobile milk testing vans : HC to state

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sking if four mobile milk testing vans were sufficient for the entire state of Maharashtra, Bombay High Court directed the state government to procure more such vans to curb the rising problem of milk adulteration.

A division bench of justices Naresh Patil and A Sayed said "This is very disturbing.

The government will have to come up with a policy to increase the number of mobile vans, which will have to be fitted with GPS system to help track their whereabouts at the earliest."

The court was surprised to know that only one mobile van was deputed in Mumbai. It said, "For a city like Mumbai, where the population is over a crore, how can you have only one van? The number has to be increased."

The direction was given during the hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by retired Colonel Chandra Shekhar Unni, through his advocate Gunratan Sadavarte. He claimed that the authorities were not acting as per law and milk drinkers, especially the children, were at a major risk.

The petition relied on a survey conducted by NGO Mumbai Grahak Panchayat, which claimed that of the 33,000 surveyed families, around 46 per cent received below-standard milk. The petition prayed that the authorities exercised the Legal Metrology Act of 2009 and took action against the errant suppliers.

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Meanwhile, the court also directed the food and drug administration (FDA) to inform about the steps taken by the government to curb adulteration of other edible products such as oil/ghee and fruits.

The FDA filed an affidavit enumerating the steps it has taken to curb milk adulteration. Among the many steps is a helpline number to receive complaints about adulteration and on a pilot basis, deployment of mobile testing vans.

It further stated that during 2014-15, it had collected 1,827 samples of different classes of milk, of which 381 were detected to be adulterated.

The authority then launched prosecution in 47 cases and collected a fine of Rs14.57 lakh from the offenders.

Stating that fruit adulteration was prevalent everywhere, the court asked the government to inform on the next date of hearing the steps taken to prevent it.

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Back ward linkagesof Dairy Industry A need h voluntary efforts-Dr. Gokhle

1. Preamble Development of Dairy Industry necessitates careful consideration of the factors involved in back ward and forward linkage. The back ward linkages include study of different components of dairy husbandry and Dr. Suresh B Gokhale Director Research BAIF ssociated factors for augmenting economic milk production of dairy animal. Forward linkages include concentrating on improvement of aspects related to handling of post production of milk and include milk collection, transportation, quality maintenance, preservation, processing for milk products, marketing and the associated areas. In dairy developed countries, larger land holding and average herd size per farming family makes situation comparatively different than that in India. In these countries, cow besides being looked as an instrument for effective and economic land use, concentration on production of milk/beef and their products dominate the approaches to production, processing and marketing. In Indian situation however, Indian dairy industry has to necessarily consider incorporation of buffalo milk besides that of cow since the volume of buffalo milk is more and important than cow because of more fat content in milk.

2. Importance of livestock and dairy:As an Agro-based country, where nearly 70% of the population lives in villages, more than 75% own livestock which is more equitably distributed than land and other resources, 65% families depend on agriculture for their livelihood of which 70% are small and marginal farmers while 1518% being landless. Livestock is closely linked with livelihood and socio-cultural aspects of rural families and play multiple roles in the livelihood systems. Contribution of livestock to family income ranges from 20 to 50% and poorer the family, greater is the contribution which can be as high as 90% during the period of draft/crop failure.

In desert and dry tropicl pockets of the country, insufficient/seasonal supply of cereals and other agricultural products compel farmer community to depend on cow milk and milk products for survival.

Considering variation in geo climatic and agro ecological situations in the country, choice and suitability of type of animals has significant bearing on required quantity of milk produced as an input to dairy industry. Factors like limited feeding resources, small land holding per farmer family, water scarcity, rain fed agriculture, non availability of grazing land, high cost of concentrate ingredients, low market price for milk etc will have adverse bearing on the quantity and quality of milk produced for dairy industry besides occupying an important source of economic sustainability for livelihood of farming community.

In resource rich areas, ample availability of green fodder and concentrate ingredients make it possible to fully exploit genetic potential of the dairy animal and thus is looked and exploited as commercial proposition. Obviously the choice for the type of dairy animal in such situation would be different.

3.Need and scope of voluntary efforts Since significantly large fraction of world population of poor people live in India, major factor influencing the successful implementation of rural development is motivation of poor families to ensure their active participation. The Voluntary Organization or Non-Government Organization (NGO) in general, focuses their voluntary action and service to address the problems of the common people or to help them face challenges. Organizations with strong voluntarism and professionalism, can implement the program efficiently. "Dedication of the volunteers and staff, their relationship with the

community, flexibility in the programme and innovative approaches to solve the problems, can result in greater success" . Agencies having deep roots in rural areas can serve the community more effectively (Paul Choudhary, 1990). Farming community especially small and marginal farmers and landless labors maintaining dairy animals by traditional methods adopting poor feeding and at no cost maintenance get poor production and reproduction performance of their animals leading to loss to the family, community and ultimately the country. Since the existing facilities from public institutions are not easily available and accessible to the door of farming community, further, even if such facilities are available, they are often for a specific area and to a specific limit. Voluntary institutions because of their flexibility of operation and capacity to take on the spot decision can play a significant role in assisting rural community to cope with their needs. As an example of voluntary organization contributing significantly to the dairy husbandry components in the country, following case study of BAIF is being deliberated.

4. Back ground and History of BAIF Emphasis on need of comprehensive integrated village development given by Mahatma Gandhi during pre independence period continued even in post independence period. Amongst few eminent Gandhian followers following Gandhian approach of village development was Manibhai Desai, who primarily was assigned odd jobs (like cleaning toilets, sanitation work in cholera affected areas etc.) by Gandhiji. After his initial working at Wardha in Maharashtra state of India, Gandhiji in 1946 asked him to continue leading a naturopathy centre to improve quality of rural life.. The center was established by Mahatma Gandhi himself at Uruli Kanchan near Pune in Maharashtra. With a mission to address four challenges (livelihoodAnna, Literacy- Akshar, Health- Arogya and Moral values- Aacharan) of rural development approach, Manibhai continued contributing to over all development through naturopathy center,. after getting about two decades of experience on standardization of preventive health care principales he went on searching for sustainable livelihood approaches using natural resources (like land, water, livestock and vegetation) as a backbone for improving health of improving apart from literacy through establishing rural schools thus creating an opportunity for integrated solution to poverty, illiteracy and rationality to village development. Dairy cattle and buffaloes formed an important input in this system approach. The philosophy of an independent voluntary organization was conceived and it was established in 1967 giving the name as (Bharatiya Agro- Industries Foundation) BAIF 5. Primary program During the decade of 1980s when familial agriculture depended largely on land operations using bullock driven implements and agriculture operations dominated by use of bullocks, the need of rearing of cow was a necessity, every family therefore was (and sill is) maintaining cow for efficiently converting crop waste from farm produce to get the manure for land improvement.

No attention was given to improve the genetic potential of these animals for milk production.

The primary intervention of cow improvement at rural family level therefore was taken up with a view to generate additional milk in the family to improve family nutrition status, The first hand of experience rearing and maintenance promising milk producing Indian cattle breed like Gir indicated that the large gap of milk requirement of the society cannot be met by traditional breed improvement, It was therefore decided to adopt frozen semen technology to produce improved genotype calf from low milk yielding mother. In order to make available adaptable genotype of the improved exotic breeds like Holstein and Jersey, an exotic farm was established at Uruli Kanchan by importing 100 pregnant heifers each of Holstein

and Jersey from Denmark and soon aftger adding another 100 Holstein breed heifers from Canada.

Simultaneously, frozen semen of selected sires of known genetic potential from exotic Breeds were imported from Denmark, Canada, UK New Zealand etc. to use them on village local cows (yielding 1.5 to 2 liters of milk per day) to gain an experience of how the progeny born out of them behaves in the tropical climate of India. It was experienced that few selected sires from the stock produced crossbred progeny giving an average of 6 to 8 liters of milk /day. It was for the first time in the country that such an advance technology was provided at village level and that too at famer door. Required R&D of course was taken up at village level to search solutions for the problems encountered in implementation of such an effort.

An approach initially started with few families around Uruli Kanchan , yielded positive results on successful artificial insemination results within an year and the message was spread fast through farmer community to different areas within state of Maharashtra and then to other states like Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

Addition of milk because of the larger number of crossbred females coming in milk improved the milk availability to farmer family members and society at large to help improve their nutrition.

Besides home consumption of milk, additional surplus milk produced could be sold either in the market or through Cooperative dairy societies thus increasing their economic status. During the initial / primary phase of the program, the activities were restricted to cow breeding only.

6. Diversification strategies:After initial success and significant response from the farmer beneficiaries, the program activities were spread in other states like Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh Jharkhand, Bihar etc.

Looking to the success in cow breeding, farmers were enthused and they started demanding services from the organization for their diversified needs like providing services for improvement of buffaloes, sheep and goats in addition to cows, fulfilling their needs for advice/ intervention on soil/land quality, fodder production, water harvesting storage and management, for handling issues in tribal areas (including those on health, education, income generation etc), post production harvest and processing technologies for cereals, horticultural fruits etc., organizing women Self Help Groups, strengthening them and promoting their cooperatives etc. taking up developmental research programs and search for appropriate technologies to cater village level problems/difficulties etc. This holistic approach has not only helped in delivering developmental services to village level communities but also the models developed through the process have also attracted overseas developing agencies expressing their willingness to participate in the endeavor and explore possibilities of replicating the models in other countries.

7. Present status A. Dairy Animal Improvement Program Many technologies initiated are reaching to maturity and are getting stabilized to help boosting milk production in the operational area besides helping improving quality of life of the village communities involved. The dairy animal development program now is being operated in 14 states of the country covering 95565 villages across 249 districts and providing services to 5892045 farmer families and covering their 3972983 dairy animals for their breeding through Artificial inseminations through its 4195 field extension centers of the organization. During the year 2015, the achievements in terms of number of Artificial Inseminations carried out were nearly 4 million achieving success rate of 55.96% on physical examination, "2.08 million cows and buffaloes have been noted in milk, producing 2.96 million tons milk/annum valued at Rs. 7030 crores. Most

of the participating farmers now are prepared to pay for the charges for the services they get from the organization highlighting sustainability of the programme beyond the sponsorship."

Dairy production technologies like progeny testing, early detection of pregnancy in animals, Embryo production and transfer, adoption of sexed semen, screening dairy bulls against important genetically transmitted diseases and regular testing for their health status, conservation of native breeds of cows and buffaloes, tolerant to heat and stress; Participating national research programs in research of livestock aspects etc. are being continued for quality up gradation of Dairy Husbandry component for strengthening successful dairy industry.

In order to understand difficulties of farmer milk producers, Pilot Milk marketing studies have been undertaken in Etawah and Agra districts in Uttar Pradesh. The response of the producers was very educative and the activity has progressed with higher volume and 12-13% higher price realization. Goat development has been well adopted by the farmers in BAIF programme areas of Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Odisha, benefitting 1.0 lakh families. Looking to the PPR disease as a major threat to goats, BAIF has taken the lead to organize a National Forum to develop a strategy to address the challenges.

As an achievements in supporting activities, breeding and promoting cultivation of superior fodder varieties adaptable to changing climate; Semen freezing laboratory at Urulikanchan accredited by Government of India under "A" category. "BNH 10 - the Hybrid Napier variety of fodder bred by BAIF has been recommended by Government of India for cultivation in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states."

B. Natural Resource Management For successful dairy farming, Backward linkage actiites cannot progress in the desired direction unless availability of water is assured. The watershed development programme undertaken by the organization incles a wide range of activities from soil and water conservation to developing clean potable water resource development. Presently on-going 62 Watershed Development projects spread over 34,337 ha in 142 villages, benefitted 23477 families, while improving ground water table, biodiversity and micro climate and motivating farmers to introduce tree based farming on marginal lands. "So far, 721 watersheds have been completed covering 3,55,922 ha in 1210 villages, benefitting 1,96,126 farmers in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states" . These farmers have enhanced their crop production by 35%, valued at Rs. 700 crores per annum.

Highlights of the watershed program are: i.In Guna district of Madhya Pradesh, high value vegetable crops and good crop husbandry practices were introduced to improve the soil and crop productivity, benefitting 219 families. ii. In Andhra Pradesh, deepening of 11 community ponds enabled the farmers to enhance the agricultural crop yield and fish harvest. iii.In Maharashtra, diversion-based irrigation canals benefitted 970 tribal families to introduce multiple cropping with high value crops on 720 ha area. Water impounded upto one metre height in the rivulets, was diverted through contour channels. iv.In tribal regions of Gujarat, 8 community lift irrigation schemes were launched to facilitate irrigation. v. In Karnataka, support for roof top rainwater harvesting for drinking was extended to 773 families, where the only source of ground water was contaminated with fluoride. With this new source of drinking water, most of the people (Contd... on Pg .12)

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EVENT REPORT

SMC College hosts seminar on 'Human Resource Management in Dairy Sector'

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airy sector is one of the largest employer.

Developing human capital is a challenge in the external environment. National level talent demand and supply mapping for future year need to be addressed efficiently. Therefore it is the right time for the academia and industry to come together and take stock of the man power situation in the dairy sector. In this regard the Dairy Business Management Department of SMC College of Dairy Science had organised one day National Seminar on 'Human Resource Management in Indian Dairy Sector' on March, 17, 2016, sponsored by ICAR. The event witnessed participation of 250 delegates from academia and dairy industries. Dr. J. B. Prajapati, Principal & Dean SMC College of Dairy Science, in his welcome speech mentioned about the 55 years of contribution made by college to Human resource in Dairy sector. The guest of Honour of the function Dr. K. B. Kathiria, Director of Research and Dean P.G. Studies, An and Agricultural University, Anand remarked that human resource management was very crucial in any sector. He also added that Anand being the

health of human work force and remarked that clarity of assigned job was very essential which would ultimately ensure the quality. Appreciation and motivation should be given due importance and creative ideas should be welcomed irrespective of cadre of job. Dr. A.K. Makwana, convener of the seminar proposed vote of thanks.

hub to Dairy organisations like NDDB, GCMMF, AMUL, IRMA, Vidya Dairy and SMC college of Dairy Science, occupied a prominent place in India’s dairy map. He also added that Anand Co-operative pattern had received national and International attention and appreciation. He stated that our country had huge human potential but the proper management of these Human resource was very important for the development of our nation.

Pankaj Shah, Managing Director, Baroda Dairy, the Chief Guest of the function recalled that earlier electricity, fuel and water were considered crucial component for an industry, but now time has come to focus more on human resource management, an inevitable component for any industry of present time.

He stressed on the importance of proper rapport among managerial and different levels of work forces and of proper appreciation based on performance.

The compendium of research articles was published in the form of book with ISBN number. The seminar had five eminent speakers, Sujit Kumar Bhuniya, General manager, HRD, NDDB, Anand, Prof. Saswata Narayan Biswas, Professor, IRMA, Anand, Dr. Preeti Shulka, Assistant manager (HR & CSR), AMUL dairy, Anand, Dr. J. V. Parekh, International Dairy consultant, Mumbai, Dr. K.S. Prasasd, GHPIBM, S.P. University, V. V. Nagar, Anand and A. K. Makwana, I/C professor & Head, Dairy Business Management, SMC College of Dairy science, AAU, Anand. The deliberation in the seminar have come up with important key point to make dairy science education more effective in the country and also for effective management of human resources in the dairy sector.

Dr. N. C. Patel, Honourable Vice Chancellor, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, in his presidential address endorsed the importance of hands on training in industry. He said that role of human resource management was to train and uplift the man power so as to extract the best out of them. He also stressed the importance of ensuring personnel and psychological

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suffering from fluorosis have significantly recovered now from their illness. vi. BAIF has been functioning as a State Resource Organisation (SRO) for Integrated Watershed Development Programme, Rural Infrastructure Development Fund, Western Ghats Development Programme and as a Resource Support Organisation (RSO) of NABARD for building the capacities of village level institutions and project implementation agencies involved in NABARDsponsored Holistic Watershed Development Programme in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, through technical guidance and training of 1047 field functionaries.

Watershed activities of these types help in improving quality of life particularly through reduction in hardship of women and significant reduction in water borne diseases, while ensuring food security.

C.Agri-Horti-Forestry (Wadi) intervention as a precursor of dairy husbandry Large hilly and forest area of the country is occupied by tribal families migratory in nature and having life style of moving family nature.

They therefore do not maintain dairy cattle aand even if they maintain, they do not own them. In order to bring them to main stream of the society and settle them for leading stationary settled life, providing interventions suiting to their traditional nature, activities incorporating land and forestry components need to be provided. Unless they get involved in soil and forest based activities, opportunity of getting them settled cannot be imagined and unless they are settled they will not rear dairy animals for their future survival in stable life. " Taking this in consideration, organization took a strategy of approaching state/central Government to allot one hectare land to each tribal family in forest and designed a program model incorporating 0.4 hectare area to horticulture fruit trees, 0.4 hectare for growing cereals and 0.2 area for his hut, keeping cow and growing one vegetables for family use." The model when practiced was found effective and useful and a very good precursor to the intervention for dairy husbandry activity, The program is accepted as a model at country level and is recognized as Wadi Model. Following progress has been recorded i. The wadi programme is currently operating in 829 villages benefitting 31249 tribal families across the country. ii. In addition, 1,69,895 tribal families have already established their wadis, spread over 68,000 ha in 4805 villages in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. iii. The programme included establishment of drought tolerant fruit tree species as the main crop while cultivating food and cash crops in the interspace thereby ensuring food security, right from first year. iv. The programme has introduced various innovative activities to improve the bio-diversity, and employment.

v. Prior to establishment of wadi, most of the families were underemployed, earning Rs. 12,000-15,000 per annum, which has now enhanced to Rs. 40,000-45,000. vi. Many innovative farmers have established high value cash crops, fruit plant nurseries and livestock husbandry to increase the income substantially.

The increased value of the agricultural produce through the wadis is estimated at Rs. 570 crores per year. vii. The wadi programme in Madhya Pradesh is benefitting 6818 tribal families spread over 263 villages. viii. Under new interventions, bamboo, tassar silk production and lac cultivation have been introduced in Maharashtra. ix. In Gujarat, tuber crops like yam and a wide range of seasonal vegetable crops are being cultivated in the inter-space. x. As an additional income generation activity to tribal community, Tassar silk production programme under Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP) being implemented in three tribal districts of Maharashtra with focus on training of women in silkworm rearing, is covering 5800 families. xi. In Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, fishery has been undertaken by the tribal families in the areas having water bodies amidst wadis. In Chhattisgarh, collection of minor forest produce and mushroom cultivation have been undertaken to increase the income. xii. In Rajasthan, a facilitation was taken up to ensure active participation of SC, ST families for taking up sustainable livelihood activities under MGNREGA and NRLM programmes implemented by the State Governments benefitting 67333 families. xiii. Forward and backward linkages through value chain development for increasing the profitability, through the producer company VAPCOL, linkages with financial institutions and tie up with market have been initiated as an integral part of the wadi programme. xiv. Support for cattle and goat breeding, deworming, vaccination have also been provided to generate supplementary income. xv. Empowerment of participant families, particularly women, formation of SHGs and producer groups, focus on health particularly malnutrition, maternal and child health care and facilitating educational facilities for children are the other dimensions of the wadi programme.

BAIF has been recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India. With the support of UNDP, a framework is being developed to assess the needs of different tribal populations and to map specific opportunities in different locations. The endeavour is to improve the productivity of the wadi through development of strong value chains and improve the quality of life of the participant families, while conserving tribal heritage and values. The best practices developed and documented are being

disseminated extensively for the benefit of all the tribal communities.

D. Climate-Resilient AgricultureAs a majority of the farmers are smallholders, deprived of irrigation and vulnerable to threats of climate change, following initiatives were taken to promote sustainable agriculture: i. Conservation of native varieties of food crops such as paddy, sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, maize and a wide range of pulses and oilseeds; ii. Selection of short duration drought resistant crop varieties and improved method of cultivation such as Systematic Rice Intensification (SRI) and extending the SRI concept to other crops; iii. Promotion of water conservation practices such as micro-irrigation, shelterbelt plantations, green manuring, mulching, multiple cropping, treebased farming and increased use of biofertilisers and biopesticides. iv. Desert Development Programme was initiated in 2007 in Barmer district of Rajasthan, Rapar block in the Little Rann of Kutchh with a research base at Nanodara near Ahmedabad.

The activities in Barmer included installation of underground tanks to conserve rainwater, cultivation of fruit crops such as ber, pomegranate and Indian glueberry (Gunda - Cardia dichotoma) and seasonal crops such as millets and vegetables.

So far, 250 tanks have been constructed and efficiently used for boosting up the productivity of agriculture and livestock husbandry benefitting 540 families. Over 487 orchards have already started fruiting during the third year. Silvipasture development through introduction of fodder species such as khejri, BAIF Bajra, Dhaman and Sevan grasses and promotion of goat husbandry have also been undertaken to improve the ecosystem while supplementing the income. v. In Kutchh, 200 families have established date palm plantation. Dairy husbandry through improved management of Gir and Kankrej breeds of cattle and Banni buffaloes has also been undertaken to provide supplementary income making use of available forage resources. vi. At institutional Research Farm in Gujarat is focussing on developing good agricultural production practices for desert areas. vii. The Centre for Development of Fragile Hill Areas in Champavat, Uttarakhand is promoting agroforestry, tree-based farming and vegetable production under protected conditions to overcome the harsh weather stress. Use of low-cost bambooframed poly houses for cultivation of vegetables could improve the yield by 100% benefitting 242 families. 301 families have taken up tree-based farming with lemon, apricot, plum, apple and peach. Water resource development, dairy cattle improvement, fodder production and sericulture are the other initiatives. viii. With the support of Government of Maharashtra, conservation and multiplication of native varieties of crops and native breeds of livestock have been initiated in different agroclimatic regions across the state. The Government

of Maharashtra has further extended support for dissemination of appropriate technologies such as portable soil testing kits, farm mechanization equipment for small holdings and grain storage bags, improved crop varieties, water management applications (water box, water harvesting structures), renewable energy applications (solar pump, solar dryer, biogas) to improve agricultural productivity and quality of life. ix.BAIF has been serving as the Regional Resource Agency for the National Environmental Awareness Campaign for the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Daman, Diu and Jharkhand. In Maharashtra, out of the 2002 proposals received from 36 districts on the theme "Combating Desertification", 1164 were approved by the Ministry. In Jharkhand, 544 applications were received of which 334 were selected.

E. Quality of Life i. Health:Community Health is an integral programme of all the activities of BAIF particularly in wadi programmes implemented in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Major initiatives undertaken recently are: a. Awareness about malnutrition in tribal districts of Gujarat and Maharashtra through strengthening of SHG members, demonstration of nutritious cooking and training on hygiene and sanitation, health camps on malnutrition, reproductive and child health care, first aid and linkage of patients with public health services; b. Awareness on safe drinking water, clean home, recycling of waste water and solids, nutritious food, promotion of kitchen garden, etc; c. Training of 200 traditional healers (vaidus) for operating herbal treatment centres in the tribal hamlets; d. Installation of 43 water filters operated without electricity in schools and remote hamlets in Gujarat and Maharashtra benefitting over 43,000 people, particularly school children. e. Counselling for mentally sick patients through promotion of 63 traditional health guides to provide counselling and medical facilities benefitting 14,000 people in 41 villages; f. Promotion of appropriate tools and devices such as solar / LED lamps, solar drier, water lifting and transportation devices, facilitation of school children through provision of bicycles and linking the participant families with various Government schemes like Jan Dhan Yojana, Health Insurance, etc., were also undertaken to improve the quality of life of participants. "It is concluded that unless the grass root activities for dairy animal are individually and jointly considered for assuring the sustainable livelihood of the rural farming community, the increment in the milk production cannot be assured to the desired level." Efforts in addressing different societal issues like economic, cultural, climatic, agricultural, educational etc. in comprehensive and integrated fashion can boost the targeted milk production essential for successful dairy Industry in the country.

Mother Dairy sets up Rs 75 crore processing plant in Ranchi

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other Dairy has announced the setting up of a 25,000 tonnes per year integrated food and vegetable processing plant in Ranchi with an estimated investment of Rs 75 crore.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das laid the foundation stone for the proposed integrated processing plant to be constructed in the Nagdi Block of Ranchi.

This would be Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt Ltd's first Fruits and Vegetable (F&V) processing plant in the eastern part of India and second overall.

"The total capital outlay for this project is estimated to be Rs 75.65 crore and the government subsidy as per Jharkhand industrial policy will be about Rs 14-15 crore," Mother Dairy said in a statement.

Mother Dairy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), sells its horticulture products under Safal brand.

"Mother Dairy (SAFAL)'s entry will not only expand the market for fruit and vegetables, but also improve and stabilise prices for farmers in the region. Mother Dairy (SAFAL) will strive to improve the economic well-being of the farmers," NDDB Chairman T Nanda Kumar said.

"The first phase of the project (freezing line) is expected to be operational by December, while the pulp and concentrate processing line will be operational a year later," Mother Dairy said.

The freezing line will have the capacity to produce 5,000 tonnes product of finished per year which will mainly include peas produced in the state.

The pulp and concentrate line will have a capacity of 20,000 tonnes products of finished per annum and this will largely include tomato processing,

mango and other fruits.

"With huge production of fruits and vegetables, Jharkhand has immense potential for processing of various fruits and vegetables. Through this state of the art facility, we will strive to explore better opportunities for almost 50,000 farmers and their produce," S Nagarajan MD Mother Dairy said.

The company operates one fruits and vegetable processing plant at Bengaluru which has a capacity of 15,000-18,000 tonnes per year.

business segments are -- milk, dairy items and edible oils under the brand 'Dhara'. It is the single largest seller of milk and dairy products in NCR.

Mother Dairy earns half of its revenue from horticulture segment by the sale of fresh fruits and vegetables, followed by the sale of pulp and packed food items, including jams and sauces.

Besides horticulture, the company's other three

The company has 400 Safal outlets in Delhi-NCR. Safal outlets are being operated on the franchise model, where the company provides basic infrastructure.

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NEWS

Prabhat Dairy ties up with Future Consumer Enterprise

Mother Dairy targets India’s tea-drinking states for 'Dailycious'

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n 2015, Mother Dairy had launched a dairy whitener product, 'Dailycious' to foray into the Dairy Whitener category, which is ruled

by Amul and Nestle. The dairy giant now plans to penetrate in the eastern and north-eastern states by offering the product at lower price points compared to some existing players. It has chosen the eastern states to launch the product as this zone is milk-deficient and consumes it on a big scale.

As per several reports, the dairy whitener market in India is worth Rs 2,000 core growing at 15% annually. The eastern states contribute to 45% of the total market. Mother Dairy initially aimed at 5% market share of the market. Presently, two popular dairy whitener brands include Amulya from Amul and Everyday from Nestleare there in the market.

In order to push the brand and connect it with its audiences, Mother Dairy has launched a TV commerical ad to promote 'Dailycious' in West Bengal and Assam markets. The Television Commercial (TVC) launched to promote 'Dailycous', is dubbed in Assamese and Bengali, apart from Hindi - to target the tea drinking States of West Bengal and Assam. The first of the two-film campaigns conceptualised by Ogilvy & Mather is already on air and the second will release later this year.

The TVC features a newly-wed couple, with actor Radhika Apte playing the wife. A simple slice-oflife situation forms the plot. At night, she reaches the bed to find him engorssed in a book. Before she sets the alarm, Apte asks her spouse if he will have his morning tea at 7 am. Without looking up, he agrees. The film cuts to the morning with the lady getting out of bed at 10 minutes past seven, surprised to see him missing next to her. She's in for a pleasant surprise, as he walks to the bedroom tea tray in hand, apologizing for the delay. She bursts into laughter as the ice is broken. The product is introduced with the promise of making special moments magical, as they sip their cups of tea in bed.

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nder this agreement, Prabhat has offered to provide them processed milk and milk products made available in retail packs under the brand name of Nilgiris as per the required quality standards, packaging and specifications.

Future Consumer Enterprise Ltd a FMCG company of Future Group has tied-up with Prabhat Dairy to take its Nilgiris brand of dairy products to a wider market. Under this agreement, Prabhat has offered to provide them processed Milk & Milk products made available in retail packs under the brand name of Nilgiris as per the required quality standards, packaging and specifications.

Tirumala (Lactalis India) has contracted Prabhat to supply them Sweetened Condensed Milk in tubes of different sizes under the brand name of "LACTEL SSHUP" again under their specifications and branding.

Mr. Vivek Nirmal, Managing Director, Prabhat Dairy says “I am happy to be associated with Future Group and Tirumala (Lactalis India) to supply them the required products with best of the best quality standards, packed as per their specifications & branding.

We are already a well-established dairy ingredients supplier and contract manufacturer for institutional clients like Britannia, Abbott, ITC, Mondelez etc.”

Prabhat Dairy Limited is an integrated milk and dairy products company in India catering to institutional as well as retail customers.

The Company produces fresh, dry, frozen, cultured and fermented dairy products, including pasteurized milk, flavoured milk, sweetened condensed milk, ultrapasteurized or ultra-high temperature

Subhashis Basu, Business Head, Value-Added Dairy Products, Mother Dairy, says, "At Mother Dairy, we have always been proud to be a part of the daily lives of millions of consumers and dairy whitener is one such category that starts the day of many of our consumers. Over the period, this connect has established our presence with our audience; however this season we wanted to strengthen the bond and this new TVC is a perfect platform to take the thought forward. I am confident that the new campaign will make perfect appeal to grab the mind share."

Ajay Gahlaut, ECD, Ogilvy India, adds, "In communicating the 'Dailycious' Dairy Whitener from Mother Dairy, we decided to centre our stories around the all-important cup of tea - partner to countless Indian stories every day. A wellmade cup of tea can infuse magic into everyday moments, much like the effect of the goodness of Mother Dairy 'Dailycious' Dairy Whitener on the tea itself."

The campaign will be supported by print, radio, digital and BTL activities in the target markets.

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(UHT) milk, yoghurt, dairy whitener, clarified butter (ghee), Cheese, Paneer, Shrikhand, milk powder, ingredients for baby foods, lassi and chaas.

Prabhat has 2 state-of-the-art manufacturing units at Shrirampur (Ahmednagar) and Turbhe (Navi Mumbai). They have established automated production facilities at their Shrirampur and Navi Mumbai facilities equipped with advanced technology which ensures operational efficiencies including lower production losses, strict quality control and ability to process large orders.

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ISRO assists big co-operatives for better dairy biz

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airy farming is the latest addition to the list of traditional businesses that are achieving higher efficiency and productivity through technology.

Big cooperatives are taking the help of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to track the milk system at village-level more efficiently.

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has taken the help of satellite imaging to track the animal population, fodder status, and land use patterns. Recently, an NDDB project won an award at the Geosmart India 2016 for developing an ‘internet-based dairy geographical information

ISRO had earlier developed crop production forecast technology for major food crops, using remote sensing techniques. However, fodder crops are normally grown sparsely and on very small plots, according to NDDB Official.

“This makes the job of discrimination of these crops through remote sensing quite challenging,” he adds.

The pilot project at Banaskantha estimated the area under green fodder crops in the district (81,000 hectares) and fallow areas as well as cultivable wastelands (57,000 hectares) with 77 per cent accuracy level. It also pointed that around 35 per cent of the villages in the district have more than five per cent wasteland which could be developed to grow fodder.

system or IDGIS. IDGIS is a visualisation tool which enables identification of villages and integrates human census, livestock census, land-use and land-cover of villages in all the major milk producing states. A senior NDDB official said around 500,000 villages had been covered, helping milk unions plan their village-level activities more efficiently.

Anand-based NDDB has also joined hands with ISRO’s Space Applications Centre and completed a pilot study of the fodder growing areas in Banaskantha district of Gujarat, using satellite imaging. Implemented at a mass scale, this would help policymakers address scarcity of fodder.

The project assumes significance when pitched against the current fodder growing pattern in India.

While India is the largest milk producing country in the world, around 80 per cent of dairy farmers are small and marginal and contribute to 70 per cent of total milk production. They, however, do not own much land. According to estimates only five per cent of the country’s farmland is devoted to fodder farming.

The aim of the study was to generate data that could help in using available fodder optimally, This would help in planning the fodder supply chain in case of any shortage in a particular area.

Fodder prices have nearly doubled in the past 10 years and fodder shortage is estimated to rise to 400 million tonnes by 2025. This study will now be scaled up on the national level.

Britannia plans to venture into dairy biz

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ritannia Industries is gearing up for a fullfledged play in the estimated Rs 85,000 crore Indian dairy market as part of its overall strategy to be a total food company.

The company will seek board approval within a couple of months for its expansion in dairy segment, which could entail a minimum investment of Rs 300 crore in the initial phase.

"We want to be a total food company and to be a total food company, we can't ignore the large dairy segment. The dairy segment in India is almost Rs 85,000 crore," Varun Berry, Managing Director, Britannia informs.

Elaborating on why it made sense to be a fullfledged player in the dairy segment, he says: "We sell dairy products worth Rs 400 crore and for our bakery business we buy dairy products worth Rs 300 crore. Overall, the consumption and sales is almost Rs 700 crore, which is a fairly large volume.

When asked how the company was preparing to enter the segment, Berry says: "We have reached a very interesting stage where we have got a fairly good grip on what we need to do to make the plunge in dairy. We just want to make sure that we get all the details together before take this proposal to the board, which will be in the next couple of months."

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The company has also roped in dairy expert, Sharad Garodia, who has joined the company as Business Head, Dairy Operations. He had earlier worked for 16 years with Schreiber Dynamix, one of the leading dairy product manufacturers in India.

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"He is helping us validate all the assumptions.In the next couple of months we should definitely be ready with the plan. I am pretty bullish on it but it has to pass a few tests because it is going to be a fairly large investment, Berry adds.

When asked about investments, he says, "The first phase will be about Rs 300 crore. In the next two or three months we will be able to take a decision on it."

The company had said that its board had approved a plan for demerger of the manufacturing and retails sales divisions of its subsidiary Daily Bread Gourmet Foods (India) to be merged into itself.

The step will help it in optimum utilisation of resources, achieve cost saving and economies of scale, among others.

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Commenting on the company's dairy strategy, Berry says: "Our first step will be establishing the back end, making sure that we have a fully integrated dairy business, right from collection of milk to processing.

"First stop up will be to bring part of what we sell in-house and then once we have done that we will look at how to innovate and enter into new categories."

In the phase one Britannia Industries will focus on value added dairy products that it already sells.

"Cheese will be a big category," Berry asserts.

Besides cheese, the company already sells fresh packed milk, dahi, flavoured yoghurt and accompaniments such as ghee.

When asked about plans for flavoured milk, where Coca Cola has also entered with its Vio brand, Berry said it will "certainly be a part that we would like to get into but not in the phase one".

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Why milk prices have fallen by Rs Keventers milks its retro legacy 10/litre for farmers Cooperatives The promoters of the nonagenarian brand of milkshakes are leveraging its heritage to attract young consumers saddled with excess stocks as private dairies slash procurement.

By Harish Damodaran New Delhi

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ince April-May 2014, milk realisations for farmers have collapsed by around Rs 10 per litre.

Maharashtra farmers are currently selling cow milk, with 3.5 per cent fat and 8.5 per cent SNF (solids-not-fat) content, to private dairies at roughly Rs 16 per litre, compared to Rs 26 oneand-a-half years ago. During the same period, farm-gate prices in northern India for buffalo milk, containing 6.5 per cent fat and 8.5 per cent SNF, have dropped from Rs 39-40 to Rs 29-30 a litre.

The blame for this can be laid primarily on “global” factors. Prices of skimmed milk powder (SMP) at GlobalDairyTrade — the fortnightly online auction platform of New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative, the world’s No. 1 exporter — averaged $ 1,792 per tonne on Tuesday. The corresponding rate on April 1, 2014 ruled at $ 4,126 per tonne, which itself was below the record $ 5,142 for the same period the previous year.

The above unprecedented global crash has done three things to India’s dairy industry.

First, it has brought exports to a standstill, with SMP shipments from the country plunging from a peak of 1.3 lakh tonnes in 2013-14 (valued at Rs 2,717.56 crore) to 34,490 tonnes (Rs 681.69 crore) in 2014-15 and a paltry 8,130 tonnes (Rs 155.73 crore) during April-November 2015.

Second, low export demand has impacted domestic SMP prices too. These have declined from an average ex-factory level of Rs 240-250 per kg in April-May 2014 to Rs 140-150 now, even as fat (ghee) prices have remained stable at Rs 300-310 per kg. Lower powder realisations have affected the operations of private dairies — especially those in the North and Maharashtra whose revenues are mainly from commodities, as opposed to branded liquid milk sales.

When SMP and ghee were selling at Rs 250 and Rs 300 per kg respectively, a dairy would have grossed Rs 3,270 or so from processing 100 litres (103 kg) of cow milk with 3.5 per cent fat and 8.5 per cent SNF. After deducting Rs 300-350 of processing and packaging costs, they could pay up to Rs 2,950 for milk delivered at the plant. This price, at the farm-gate, would have worked out to about Rs 2,600 or Rs 26 a litre.

But at Rs 140/kg for SMP and Rs 300/kg for ghee, the gross revenue from the same 100 litres of milk would be just over Rs 2,300. Netting out Rs 350 of processing-cum-packaging costs and an equal expense for transport of milk from the farm, thus, effectively leaves Rs 16 per litre — which is what Maharashtra’s farmers are receiving today.

Simply put, most private dairies with a predominantly commodity (powder and ghee) portfolio have responded to the global crash either by sharply slashing their milk purchase price or even discontinuing operations in the last one year.

But the sharp cut-back in procurement by private dairies has resulted in a third outcome — diversion of the surplus milk to cooperatives, particularly in the western and southern states where they have a reasonable presence.

During April-December, cooperatives put together have procured 14.1 per

cent more milk over the average for same period of 2014-15. This growth is higher than the 10.7 per cent recorded for the whole of 2014-15 and the less than 2 per cent increase in 2013-14, when private dairies were aggressively chasing milk on the back of the SMP export boom.

The additional milk flowing into cooperatives has led to their accumulating excess powder stocks of over one lakh tonnes, which ordinarily would have been produced for exports. These are, instead, putting further downward pressure on prices. While cooperatives are saddled with too much powder, the only thing that has still kept them going is liquid milk sales, which make up anywhere from two-thirds to three-fourths of their total procurement. Unlike SMP, retail prices of pouch milk haven’t fallen. If anything, they have risen marginally in the last one-and-a-half years.

This has also enabled cooperatives to pay farmers more than what commodity-focused private dairies are giving.

Farmers supplying milk to the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) unions are, for instance, now getting around Rs 21 per litre for cow milk. The cooperative is selling the same milk to consumers under its Nandini brand at Rs 33 per litre.

KMF’s farmers are, in addition, receiving a state government subsidy of Rs 4 per litre, which, on an average daily procurement of 65 lakh litres, comes to nearly Rs 950 crore a year.

But it’s not only cooperatives. Some private dairies in the South like Hatsun Agro Product and Heritage Foods also have a significantly large liquid milk marketing business, insuring them against the commodity price crash that has hit their northern and western counterparts hard.

“My procurement has gone up 25 per cent this fiscal, as against the normal yearly increase of 1213 per cent. All the surplus milk in Tamil Nadu, has been absorbed by me or Aavin (the state cooperative federation), while others (including private commodity players) are finding the going tough”, says R.G. Chandramogan, chairman of the Chennai-based Hatsun Agro, which owns the Arokya brand of liquid milk.

Liquid milk apart, the other consolation for the industry is ghee prices holding up, partly due to the government clamping down on butter oil imports after a couple of traders brought in an estimated 4,000 tonnes ahead of Diwali at landed prices of Rs 200 per kg. But the benefits of it would accrue more to buffalo milk, whose prices are, moreover, expected to firm up once the “lean” summer months set in. No such luck is foreseen for cow milk, which has lower fat and is also less prone to production fluctuations round the year.

“It is the buffalo that is probably going to save the dairy farmer”, sums up RS Sodhi, managing director of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Amul).

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cow within a fenced-off area in front of Super Milk Products' registered office on New Delhi's Man Singh Road, set on a fouracre estate owned by the Ram Krishna Dalmia family, is a rustic reminder of company's core product of milk shakes.

For the three promoters of the recently resurrected 91-year-old brand this semirural image may be a world away from their target market of aspirational urban youth. Yet it's not an inappropriate one, since it is Keventers' retro appeal that they are trying to milk as they seek to re-establish and expand the famous milk shake brand.

Last year, the company, floated by Dalmia's grandson Agastya Mihir Dalmia, Aman Arora and hospitality consultant Sohrab Sitaram, made a tentative start by opening its first outlet in south Delhi. That marked the formal re-launch of a brand that R K Dalmia had acquired from Swedish dairy technologist Edward Keventer's estate in 1940. It has been all but moribund since the 1970s, when the land on which the dairy stood was requisitioned for the city's diplomatic enclave. Thereafter, the brand retained a vague recall via several unauthorised standalone outlets offering pre-mixed shakes. For Dalmia, 26, and his college mate Aman Arora, 25, resurrecting Keventers was part of a discussion of what to do after their Delhi Street Football venture wound down.

"Once the factory closed, some of our distributors continued without our permission. The quality of the shakes deteriorated over time," says Arora, who is Director and Head of Marketing. So there were two issues involved: one was providing a standardised offering and the second was whether to get into manufacturing or retail services.

That was when Sohrab Sitaram, 40, who has worked with the Taj hotel chain, came on board and the plan took shape in 2014. The model is to provide a standardised look for the outlets that would be provided with the milk, via a tie-up with Mother Dairy, flavouring syrups, from an in-house R&D outlet, and customised glass bottles, through an exclusive tie-up with a vendor.

With a start-up capital of Rs 2 crore - the Dalmia family owns 80 per cent, Arora and Sitaram 10 per cent each - the new incarnation of the old Keventers opened shop in Select CityWalk in March 2015, followed by a kiosk in Promenade, part of DLF's upscale mall complex in Vasant Kunj, in June 2015, when Super Milk Products was registered as a company, and Mall of India in Noida in January this year.

The idea was to retain the brand aesthetics without diluting its heritage. "We had a certain brand pedigree, so we couldn't be too modern, and the question was how to retain the legacy and build on that," explains Sitaram. The company hired Som Sengupta of Zeppelin Design and Environment for the makeover.

Aman Arora, Agastya Dalmia and Sohrab Sitaram

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are relaunching the Keventers brand The more radical element of the exercise was creating the look and feel of the kiosks on modern high-street lines. The "old-school" values were conveyed through random knick-knacks scattered in the kiosks like an old-style telephone instrument and a Minolta camera but also more subliminally through small but significant tweaks to the packaging and logo design.

The old, squat Delhi Milk Supply bottle acquired a sleeker line. The cursive flourish and font of the original logo were retained but the term "Since 1925" was added at the top, the tagline "The Original Milkshake" appeared at the bottom, and the outline of a milk bottle was placed within the logo. Heritage is the lynchpin of the Keventers branding strategy in a business in which the entry barriers to competition are extremely low.

That is why the milk bottle lies at the heart of the new Keventers' brand values.

"We're trying to make the bottle a collector's item," says Dalmia. A smaller 300 ml size will shortly be added to the current 500 ml standard.

With the youth as the primary target, social media remains the preferred mode of communication but newspaper and billboard advertising is also being considered. Serving at weddings and events is part of the branding exercise and that business now accounts for about 10 per cent of revenues. The partners are also working on adding newer, contemporary flavours to the classic four of vanilla, strawberry, butterscotch and chocolate.

Currently, Super Milk has five operational kiosks and another six are coming up under a franchisee model, including at the giant Epicuria food mall in Nehru Place. Over this year, it aims to open 35-40 outlets, including in Jaipur and Hyderabad.

Arora explains that the franchise model, which started this year, is extremely scalable, requiring the franchisee to have 100-120 square feet of space and involving a modest cost of Rs 18-19 lakh (including a one-time fee of Rs 4.5 lakh). If the location is right, it is possible to break even in six months. Super Milk provides the vendor management service - staff hiring and training and marketing support. Right now, the promoters say they are flooded with requests and are exploring options outside India too, Kenya and Indonesia being immediate options. In a sense, Keventers is milking the opportunities of globalisation too. (courtesy newspapers)

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Development of synbiotic lassi containing honey:

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rom the Editor’s desk Indian Dairy Industry: Poised for an upswing activity!!!

Friends!!!Currently, the Indian dairy industry is different as compared to many years ago.

Looking at the current situation, the dairy boom is on its way with a push to agri-sector analysing the recent budget announcement.

The provisions seem to be futuristic as the industry has gained the focus on technology, research on genome of indigenous breeds and e-commerce platform for connecting breeders with farmers.

The improved breeding will deliver increased productivity and improve farmer profitability.

E-commerce will help us improve transparency and eliminate middle men, while genomics for local breeds will ensure sustainable dairy farming with local resources.

Interestingly, Budget-2016 has provided Rs 850 crore in next few years for spending on the 'Pashudhan Sanjivani', an animal wellness programme and provision of Animal Health Cards ('Nakul Swasthya Patra'); second, an Advanced breeding technology and creation of ‘E-Pashudhan Haat’.

Needless to say, India is one of the largest milk producing countries and milk forms the third gross income of the rural India. Growth of milk production has averaged to around 4 per cent in the last three decades; it certainly attracts investments to ensure long-term growth and stability of the industry.

Seeing attractive investments in the country’s organised dairy sector, as rightly mentioned by one of the leading global rating agencies a year ago, the industry foresees augmentation to around 1,050 lakh litres per day (LLPD) with an overall capex infusion of around Rs 15, 000 crore in the next three years. The industry is all set for ‘Cream run’ through 2018 focussing particularly on value-added products.

Not only but, it also seems that expansions in the sector will be strategically planned to ensure that there is geographical diversification that strengthens milk procurement. The revenue share from the organised segment could rise to 25 per cent by 2018 from 19 per cent in 2015, according to a report named ‘Cream Run.’ Additionally, money is not a problem for dairy-giants of the industry. Some of them who are continuously making headlines in the market are Amul, Mother Dairy, Vasudhara Dairy, Tirumala Milk, Bhagyalaxmi Dairy Farm and Modern Dairy. The companies in this sector which have considerable exposure to the dairy business are Hatsun Agro Product, Heritage Foods, Modern Dairies, MilkFood, Umang Dairies and Vadilal Enterprises.

Amul pumping up every year Rs 600-800 crore as part of expansions and investments for enhancing the milk processing units, Mother dairy diverting its attention to a television sting, all seem to rebounding and positive days ahead for the industry.

Furthermore examples could be ----agri-business unit of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd that has reportedly ventured into the dairy market with Saboro brand of milk pouches, enabling the company to directly procure milk from the farmers availing better returns for their produce.

Investments seem to be on way with an initial corpus of Rs 5 Crore to set up its collections centres in villages. It is eyeing for about 5 per cent of the dairy business in Indore market that is estimated to be around Rs 260 Crore market.

Amidst all, dairy start-ups seems to be emerging to find its niche in the market such as Freshmen's Valley, which is reportedly eyeing a revenue of Rs 400 crore in the first two financial years of its operations and planning to launch its dairy products within a couple of months.

Undoubtedly, the sector is increasingly becoming attractive for private equity players, as it is ranked among the top 10 sectors monitored closely by PE players. From accounting for just 2 per cent of total PE investment a decade ago, the Indian dairy sector is now attracting over 6 per cent on a much larger base. Over Rs 900 crore have been invested in the sector, since 2010.

Increased disposable income and quality consciousness among the consumers along with greater preference for branded milk and milk products would drive the growth for organised dairy players, who would see faster growth in the next three years as against 22 per cent seen in last five years.

The demand for milk and milk products is increasing, the productivity is also rising and the development is mirrored in the consumption which is driven by the population growth and the growing per capita incomes.

Well! the extent to which this is the case has to be examined in detail.

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ongratulations to Dr. JV Parekh and the Advisory Board on producing a much needed newspaper to cover the rapidly growing Indian dairy industry.

The worldwide dairy industry is continuing to grow rapidly and the Indian dairy industry is very much part of that growth. The need to produce high quality milk for our growing world population is so imperative. India has so many of the essential components for an industry that will not only Dr. Trevor Tomkins President, VentureDairy, U.S.A

produce very high quality milk in the future, but will also move to an efficient milk production base.

As times progress the opportunity to improve nutrition of milk-producing animals and with it improve the sustainability of the industry will be marked signs that the Indian industry can compete in world markets.

I wish the newspaper much success.

ising levels of health consciousness among the consumers are providing ample opportunities for the food scientists to create and market new functional Dr. J B Prajapati Chairman,Vidhya Dairy foods. In such a scenario, Synbiotic foods represent a huge growth potential for the food industry and may be explored through the development of innovative ingredients, processes, and products. Among the dairy products, yogurts, kefir, and cultured drinks represent the major categories (Granato et al., 2010). In addition to being a very nutritious substrate for the fastidious lactic acid bacteria (LAB), the milk product matrix and its bioactive components can support the probiotic functions in the gut through antimicrobial, immunemodulatory, anti-carcinogenic, and prebiotic properties. Also, the growth of probiotics in food matrices is found to be enhanced in the presence of bioactive ingredients such as prebiotics, vitamins, minerals, etc (Sanders and Marco, 2010).

Lassi is a popular lactic acid fermented milk beverage of the Indian subcontinent. It contains appreciable amounts of milk proteins and phospholipids along with various metabolites produced by lactic acid bacteria. Its therapeutic aspects may be partly due to the effect of lactic acid and antibacterial substances and partly due to the creation of favorable condition for the growth of beneficial intestinal flora which play a key role in controlling the microbial population in the intestine (Prajapati and Nair, 2003). As regards honey a number of studies have proved it's prebiotic potential in terms of increase in viable count of probiotic lactobacilli (Dhewa and Goyal, 2009) and bifidobacteria (Mei et al.,2010; Macedo et al ., 2008) when used along with skim milk (Riazi and Ziar, 2008). Honey contains 4-5% fructo-oligosaccharides which may serve as prebiotic agents (Chow, 2002).Lassi can be one of the most appropriate vehicles to carry scientifically proven probiotic bacteria and honey can be a natural source of prebiotic.

Considering this hypothesis in mind, the present investigation was planned to develop a novel synbiotic dairy product.

Materials and Methods The cultures, Streptococcus thermophilus MTCC5460 and Lactobacillus helveticus MTCC5463 were obtained from the Dairy Microbiology Department, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand, They were maintained by propagating in sterilized reconstituted skim milk (10% total solids) and stored at 5+2ºC.Toned milk was purchased from a commercial dairy plant.

High quality sugar, free from impurities was purchased from local market. Processed honey from a specific reputed brand was purchased from local market.

Standard procedure for probiotic lassi making with minor modification of the procedure adopted

by Patidar and Prajapati (1998) was used for preparation of synbiotic lassi. Honey @ 3%, 5% and 7% (w/v) was added to toned milk for optimization of level of honey. Optimum rate of honey was decided on the basis of sensory, chemical and microbial parameters of the product obtained. For the preparation of final product, optimized level of sugar and honey were added to pre-warmed (45ºC) toned milk having minimum 3.0 % fat and 8.5 % solids not fat (SNF). It was mixed well and subjected to heat treatment of 90 ºC for 5 min. followed by cooling to 40 ± 2 ºC. Active cultures of S. thermophilus MTCC 5460 and Lb. helveticus MTCC 5463 were inoculated @1% v/v each and stirred well. The inoculated milk was incubated at 37 ± 2ºC till the acidity

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reached to 0.65 % lactic acid. The set curd was immediately transferred to refrigerator to arrest further acid production. After allowing it to cool to 10ºC, the curd was broken by mechanical stirrer to get synbiotic lassi. The product was then filled in polyethylene cups and stored at refrigeration temperature (5±2ºC) for shelf-life study. Probiotic lassi (without honey) served as control throughout the study.

Storags Studies of synbiotic lassi Synbiotic lassi samples along with probiotic lassi were stored at refrigeration temperature (5 ± 2°C) to decide shelf life and to study the storage related changes in the products. Synbiotic and probiotic lassi samples were analyzed periodically for sensory, chemical and microbiological parameters.

The products were subjected to sensory evaluation by an expert panel of nine judges for colour and appearance, flavour, body and texture and overall acceptability criteria. Fresh products at 0 day and the stored products (7, 14, 21 and 28 days storage at 5 ± 2 °C) were brought to 10 °C before giving for judging. The score given by them on 9 point hedonic scale (9 liked extremely to 1 disliked extremely) were taken to determine the acceptability level of product. The products were analyzed for chemical parameters such as titratable acidity, moisture, fat, ash, total carbohydrates and total protein (FSSAI, 2015), Free Fatty Acids (FFA) and Tyrosine Value (Vanetti, 2009). the pH was determined by electronic pH meter (Model CYBERSCAN 2100, EUTECH Instruments, Singapore).Lassi samples for microbial analysis were prepared by aseptically transferring eleven grams of sample to 99ml sterile phosphate buffer to obtain 1:10 dilution. Subsequently, 1 ml of the said dilution was used for making further dilutions in 9 ml phosphate buffer. Suitable dilutions were prepared and poured in a set of sterile petri dishes in duplicates. Microbial counts were determined as per standard procedures. Lactobacilli count on MRS agar, Streptococci count on M17 agar, Yeast and Mold count and Coliform count (IDF, 1981) were estimated. The media and chemicals were purchased from Hi Media, Mumbai, India.

All chemicals used in this study were of analytical grade. Optimization study data were analyzed by Completely Randomized Design (CRD) as per the methods described by Steel and Torrie (1980).

Storage study data were examined using Factorial CRD. The values for microbial counts were log transformed before analysis.

Results and Discussion The product added with 5% level of honey showed slightly higher lactobacilli and streptococci count than products with other rates of addition.

Lactobacilli count ranged from 8.76 to 9.03 log CFU/g whereas streptococci count varied from 9.24 to 9.60 log CFU/g in the products.

The pH of the product ranged from 4.40 to 4.46 while the titratable acidity was 0.66 to 0.74% LA. The results are in agreement with those of Chick et al., (2001) who studied the lactic acid production in skim milk added with 5% honey and other sweeteners (fructose, sucrose) and reported that honey or added sweetener did not affect the acid production. The result also corroborated with those of Varga (2006), who reported that incorporation of honey at 1% to 5% (w/v) in yoghurt did not significantly influence the pH and lactic acid levels of the product.

Sensory evaluation of the synbiotic lassi samples on 9 point hedonic scale revealed that the sensory scores for products with 3% and 5% honey were at par, but were significantly (P<0.05) higher than control and lassi with 7% honey. Even though, lassi with 5% honey gave highest flavor score, statistically the effect of honey concentrations on flavor score was not significant for all four treatments. The effect on colour and appearance of lassi samples with different rates of addition

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-Studies on probiotic viability, product characteristics and shelf life of honey were non-significant. However, honey @ 7% and 5% gave significantly (P<0.05) higher score for body and texture. Overall acceptability score of synbiotic lassi was higher but at par for 0 to 5% rate of addition (7.45-7.75) as compared to 7% honey (7.26). Ghadge et al., (2008) reported that buffalo milk yoghurt fortified with 5% honey was more acceptable in terms of color and appearance and scored maximum for overall acceptability compared to yoghurt added with 10 and 15 % honey.

using L. acidophilus and S. thermophilus and stored in pouches as well as in bottles. Such declining trend in pH values of synbiotic yoghurts during storage was reported by Ramchandran and Shah (2010) and Shaghaghi et al .(2013). Tyrosine and free fatty acid contents of synbiotic as well as probiotic lassi increased during storage. This increase was non-significant till 7th day (0.19 mg/5 ml); thereafter a significant (P<0.05) change was noted till the end of the storage period (0.27 mg/5ml).

While Varga (2006) reported that yoghurt sample with 3% acacia honey was found to be optimum for flavor whereas 1% addition gave weak flavor and 5% was too sweet along with strong flavor.

The results indicated that addition of honey at 5% rate is optimum for getting better acceptability and fermentation activities and hence further work was carried out with the product added with 5% honey.

The differences in tyrosine values between control and synbiotic lassi at different storage periods were significantly (P<0.05) different. The gradual increase in tyrosine values in both the products during storage indicated progressive proteolytic action going on in the products. A number of research studies have shown the increase in tyrosine content of fermented milk products dependent on storage time, culture type and protein structure (Kesenkaº et al., 2011, Costa et al., 2015). The free fatty acid content increased from 0.56 to 0.85 and 0.60 to 0.92 μg/g in control and in synbiotic lassi samples respectively during storage of 28 days.

The average FFA content in control (0.70 μg/g) was significantly (P<0.05) lower as compared to synbiotic lassi (0.76 μg/g). Increase in free fatty acid content is indicative of progressive lipolysis in the products.

Storage study of lassi The optimized synbiotic lassi prepared with 5% honey contained 77.92% moisture, 3% fat, 3.74% protein, 13.41% carbohydrate and 0.97% ash.

Both synbiotic lassi and control (probiotic lassi without honey) were packaged in polystyrene cups and stored at refrigeration temperature (5±20C).

Chemical changes during storage Both synbiotic and probiotic lassi showed significant (P<0.05) decrease in pH and increase in titratable acidity throughout the storage period.

The average pH of both the products when fresh was 4.55, which decreased significantly (P<0.05) to 3.96 after 2 weeks and further reduced to 3.93 after 4 weeks of storage. The interaction effect of treatment and storage period among the synbiotic and probiotic lassi was non-significant.

The average acidity increase over the entire storage period was significantly (P<0.05) higher in synbiotic lassi (1.09 % LA) as compared to control (1.02 % LA). The mean increase over storage period was also significant (P<0.05) at all the weeks showing average value of 0.63% LA at 0 d to 1.31% LA at 28 d of storage. However, the interaction effect of the treatments with the periods showed non-significant changes. Patidar and Prajapati (1998) reported a similar increase in the titratable acidity of probiotic lassi, manufactured

Yadav et al., (2007) reported an increased level of fatty acids during fermentation and storage in the probiotic yogurt samples mainly due to lipolysis of milk fat. Vaseji et al., (2012) also reported an increase in levels of butyric acid in probiotic yogurt samples with increased shelf life. Both proteolytic and lipolytic activities going on in the products during storage can lead to changes in the flavour, body and textural characteristics of the product and thus limit its shelf-life.

Microbiological changes during storage A high level of probiotic cell count at the end of product shelflife is must for ensuring functionality of the product and hence maintenance of viability of probiotics during storage becomes one of the main requirements for a synbiotic product. The lactobacilli count was significantly (P<0.05) higher in synbiotic lassi (8.75 log cfu/g) as compared to

control (8.42 log cfu/g) at the end of storage of 28 days. There was a gradual decrease in count in both the products during storage, but the average decrease was non-significant during first week and last week of storage. The average changes in streptococci count of control and symbiotic lassi were comparable over the storage period.

The interaction effect of the treatments with the periods also showed similar changes. The count of streptococci in synbiotic lassi ranged from 8.56 to 7.93 log cfu/g during the entire storage period.

The mean yeast and mold count was significantly (P<0.05) lower in symbiotic lassi (2.01 log cfu/g) as compared to control (2.96 log cfu/g). On an average, the count of yeast and molds in synbiotic lassi increased during storage from 1.55 log cfu/g at 0 d to 2.01 log cfu/g at the end of 28 days. This indicated that yeast and molds grew slowly in acidic products like lassi. Coliforms were absent in both products throughout the storage period of 28 days. Different workers have reported similar trends in the counts of lactobacilli and streptococci strains as well as for yeast and mold counts and coliforms in fermented milk products during storage study.

Changes in the sensory attributes during storage The changes in sensory scores using 9 point hedonic scale by a panel of experts and average score given by them are presented in Table 5. Mean color and appearance score of symbiotic lassi(7.62) was significantly (P<0.05) higher as compared to control (7.28). This indicated that addition of honey improved the colour and appearance of the product. However, during storage,it gradually became dull in both the products showing gradual decrease from 8.08 at 0d to 6.75 at 28d. The flavor of synbiotic lassi was better than control lassi throughout the refrigerated storage. The average score was 7.14 for symbiotic lassi and 6.88 for control lassi. Both the products showed nonsignificant decrease till 14 days of storage and then the decrease was significant (P<0.05)till 28th day. The flavor score fell below 6.00 at 28th day and hence we considered shelf-life of product upto 21 days only. The average body and texture score for control and synbiotic lassi during various periods of storage differed significantly (P<0.05).

Synbiotic lassi had better body and texture score

at all periods with an average of 7.47 out of 9.

This was significantly (P<0.05) higher than the control sample (7.17). This is probably due to the higher binding effect of honey which improved its viscosity. Overall acceptability scores of both synbiotic lassi and control were found to decrease during the storage period of 28 days. The mean score was 7.84 at 0d, which remained at par till 7d of storage (7.61) but reduced significantly (P<0.05) to 7.27 at 14 days of storage. The score further fell down to 6.82 after 21 days and 5.86 after 28 days of storage.

This means that product was liked by experts till 21 days only. The changes that happened in the chemical, microbiological and sensory attributes of the products were non-significant till 21 days of storage. There after a decline in the overall acceptability of the products was observed mainly because of increased acidity causing the products to turn sour and also because of proteolytic and lipolytic changes occurring in the products.

Ghadge et al., (2008) who studied the sensory profile of different rates of addition of honey in buffalo milk yoghurt reported highest score in case of yoghurt added with 5% honey compared to control.

Conclusions Present study resulted in the development of a synbiotic lassi having satisfactory sensory attributes and shelf-life of 21 days at 5±2 ºC. This product could be a potential functional food mainly because it contained 8.81 log cfu/g of viable cell of probiotic lactobacilli and 5% honey v/v that had many reported health benefits. Current study has shown a positive influence of honey on the sensory attributes of lassi apart from survival of probiotic lactobacilli. symbiotic Department of Dairy Microbiology, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat-388 110, India.

Sreeja V Department of Dairy Microbiology, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat-388 110, India. E-mail: sreeja_p70@rediffmail.com

Global dairy crisis and Indian dairy perspective Torsten Hemme, Amit Saha, Prashant Tripathi IFCN -The Dairy Research Network, Kiel, Germany, www.ifcndairy.org

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Chart.1

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orld milk prices in the last ten years showed wide variability around the average of 40 US-$ per 100 kg ECM(Energy Corrected Milk with 4% fat, 3.3% proteins) ranging from 19 to 56 US-$ as shown in the chart 1. We are now in the same crisis like in 2009 with milk prices in 2015 averaging 29.4 US-$ equivalent to Indian Rs. 18.83 per kg ECM. The world milk price is based on the weighted average of three IFCN World Price Indicators: skim milk powder & butter; cheese & whey and whole milk powder.

exporter, while remaining self-sufficient during periods of lower global prices in phase 2.

Indian milk prices have been tracking at an average of 5-6% lower than the world milk price since 2006. However, there has been three distinct phases of variability in the global prices as numbered in chart 1.

The phase 1 refers to high global milk prices; however Indian dairy farmers received lower milk prices than the global level with very less price transmission between global and national prices.

This happened twice during 2007-08 and 2013-14.

The phase 2: This is the period of global dairy crisis,when milk prices declined significantly but Indian prices did not due to trade regulation (tariffs) in 2009 and 2015-16.

The phase 3: Global milk prices are around the

It is interesting to observe that India had a balance of exports and imports of dairy products in the phase 3 when Indian milk prices moved in tandem with global prices. World dairy markets have both opportunities and threats. Understanding the global markets will enable India to make better decisions for its stakeholders in a balanced way.

average level.The Indian milk prices are in tandem with global prices in 2010-13 and there is a very close price transmission of Indian milk prices with world prices.

Chart 2 represents the import-exports and net trade of milk equivalents by India from 2006 to 2016. India has taken the presence of higher global milk prices to its advantage in phase 1 being a net

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NEWS

Amul starts bio-CNG generation plant

Govt to sell indigenous cow milk: Om Prakash Dhankar

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griculture Minister Om Prakash Dhankar has an advice for women to stay slim: “Consume milk of indigenous cow, as it has low fat.” This is how the government is branding the milk of indigenous cow.

“The government is going to sell milk of indigenous cows as a brand in adjoining metro cities as it has ‘A-2’ type of protein,” he said at the 16th biennial animal nutrition conference on innovative approaches for animal feeding and nutrition research at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI).

Dhankar referred to Haryana as a land of milk and curd.

“Desha mai desh Haryana, jit doodh dahi ka khana (Haryana is the land where milk and curd are a staple diet).”

He, though, rued per capita

availability of milk was 800 gram per day. “It should be 1 litre per person per day.” The minister batted for a policy for feed and fodder safety on the lines of food safety.

director Dr K Rathnam.

For every litre of milk that is processed at the dairy, one litre water (two million litre a day) is used for chemical cleaning of plant and machinery.

“The livestock sector is facing scarcity of feed and fodder. In a scenario of animal fodder being diverted to alternative uses, the problem is going to be serious.”

This water has residual milk solids which earlier emitted 2,500 cubic metre of methane per day with 60 to 65 % purity.

Haryana has 1.17 lakh stray animals and nearly 3 lakh cows in gaushalas.

“It is a challenge to ensure availability of fodder for a large number of animals.” The government is going to hold a beauty contest of milch breeds in Rohtak on February 27 and 28, Dhankar added.

Gurbachan Singh, chairman, Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB), said “India is at the top in milk production in the world, but per animal productivity is less; poor nutrition of animals is a major factor.”

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he Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited popularly known as Amul Dairy has become the first in India's food industry to start a fully automated bio-CNG generation and bottling plant to utilise energy from its plant's waste.

Earlier, the dairy union used to flare the biogas into the atmosphere by burning it.

While burning raw biogas some elements like carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide used to get released into atmosphere harming the environment.

But a few months back as part of its green initiative, Amul decided to reutili\se the biogas and adopted medium pressure swing adsorption (MPSA) technology to convert biogas into bioCNG. "We are the first in the dairy sector as also the food industry of the country to design, install and commission such a technology along with our Ahmedabad-based technical partner Atmos Power Private Limited," says Amul Dairy's managing

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Now, the raw biogas from digesters is first collected in double membrane raw biogas balloon having capacity 1,000 cubic metre.

From raw biogas balloon, it is transferred for purification.

MPSA tower is used for further purification and then passed to surge tank for storage of purified bio-CNG having more 93 per cent of methane content.

From surge tank, it is transferred and stored into another double membrane purified biogas balloon having capacity 1000 cubic metre. Finally, it is compressed and filled into cylinders for use.

"Purified biogas is as good as CNG having more than 93 percent of methane content. We have started using the purified biogas at our food complex at Mogar," says Rathnam.

The co-operative has invested Rs 1.75 crore for implementing this technology. "After deducting our investment, we are saving Rs 25 per cubic metre of gas which is a saving of Rs 12 lakh per month and added that the payback period was less than two years. "In the process, we are helping protect environment."

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Therefore, you may send your suggestions or query to the email address in each of the write-ups. We, at Advance Info Media and Events, do not undertake any responsibility of any misleading information in case it appears in any of the write-ups)

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Problems regarding Export of Indian Dairy Products to Russia

he issue of export of Dairy products from the Republic of India to the Russian Federation is pending for a long time and a speedy resolution is required to initiate the export process.

Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Pvt. Ltd. (SDDPL) is one of the two enterprises, which has been cleared by the Russian Government Authorities for export of dairy products from India, subject to the conclusion of a Protocol between the two Governments.

A brief chronological development of the present issue is enumerated below for perusal and intervention: In August 2014, The Russian Government enforced sanctions on the European Union countries and banned the imports, including that of the dairy products. The Russian Government and dairy enterprises in Russia started looking for alternative markets to source their imports.

In Nov 2014, a team of food inspectors from the Russian Rosselkhoznadzor (FSVPS Federal Service for Veterinary & Phytosanitary Surveillance) in coordination with the Export Inspection Council (EIC), Ministry of Commerce,

Government of India, visited number of dairy industries in India. In their inspection report the FSVPS cleared only two firms for export of dairy products to Russia viz., the Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Pvt. Limited (SDDPL) and Parag Dairies Pvt. Ltd. In April 2015, FSVPS posted the names of the above two firms in their website for import of dairy products from India but kept the final clearance under suspension, due to the need for signing of a Protocol between the two Governments. FSVPS also handed over copy of the protocol to be signed.

In July 2015, JS, Ministry of Commerce, called a meeting with all the representatives of the Indian Dairy industries to brief them on the contents of the protocol. The firms, which were not cleared by the Russian authorities, particularly AMUL, felt that the protocol should be renegotiated and certain clauses be added and deleted to facilitate them to enable export.

We as SDDPL had suggested that let the protocol be concluded in the present form and the other issues can be discussed on the side. This will help at least two of the Indian firms to enter the market and rest can subsequently follow.

However, the Ministry of Commerce decided

to initiate negotiations with their Russian counterparts for enforcing certain changes in the protocol.

With the view to resolve the impasse a meeting was organised with the Hon’ble Minister of Commerce on 28 August 2015 who was requested for intervention to resolve the impasse the dairy industries are facing.

Though we had received a note of assurance from the Ministry of Commerce the matter has remained unresolved till date.

The long process of negotiations between the Indian and Russian Governments has adversely affected the export opportunity and the Russian enterprises have now started importing the dairy products from Brazil and Iran.

Negotiation Points In July 2015, the Ministry of Commerce requested the Russian authorities namely, FSVPS to include a clause in the protocol, which would enable the protocol to be rediscussed after six months. The Russian side was initially reluctant but finally agreed to include the provision in Nov 2015.

clause which states that the Indian enterprise exporting dairy products to the Russian Federation, should have captive farms having at least 1000 heads, to be dropped.

This is not only unethical and has been a typical case of shifting the goal post during the process of negotiation. We believe that the whole process now seems to be somehow delayed indefinitely which will finally derail the negotiation process perhaps with an objective that is based on a narrow vision that discriminates the achievement of dairies in the Private Sector vis-à-vis those under the banner of Co-operatives. This is not in the interest of our country.

What we want is that the protocol between Indian and Russian Governments should be concluded ASAP and the two Indian dairy companies be allowed export to Russia which will help the Indian farmers to supply milk for making value added dairy products. The rest of the issues between the Governments could be negotiated and resolved in due course.

(By Commander Amitabha Ray, Managing Director ,Schreiber Dynamix. For any queries, please email:amitabha.ray@schreiberfoods.com)

Then again the Indian side insisted that a particular

Case for revision of specs for ash content in milk powder

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ineral profile of milk depends upon a number of factors like breed of the animals and external factors like season, feeding, management, and health status of the mammary gland. The mineral content of milk is derived from minerals found in circulating body fluids.Milk is a rich source of minerals, especially the bone building Calcium and some other vital minerals and vitamins.

The minerals put together are called Ash content of milk and can be estimated by incinerating the milk solids under controlled conditions , where all the organic matter gets burnt, and the minerals are left behind in the form of ‘Ash’. Among the two species, cow milk has relatively higher ash content compared to buffalo milk.

In a separate study elsewhere, Cerbulis and Farrel (1976) reported the ash, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium contents of milk from different breeds of cows. The average ash content varied from 0.74 percent for Holsteins to 0.83 percent for Jerseys.

The highest calcium and phosphorus contents in milk were reported for Jerseys. Cow milk has almost 50% higher amounts of Chlorides and Potassium - it is deficient in Calcium compared to buffalo milk. Potassium in cow milk is about 1750 mg/100g, while it is 1000 mg/100ml in

Buffalo milk. Similarly, Chloride content in cow milk is 140 mg/ 100ml, while buffalo milk has a chloride content of 80 mg/ 100g. Calcium in cow milk is about 100 mg/100ml, it is 140 mg/100ml in buffalo milk. Thus at any time, the ash content of cow milk is always higher than buffalo milk, compared on SNF basis.

The Indian food regulations maintain that the Ash content in Skimmed milk powder has to be a maximum of 8.2% on SNF basis. While this holds true for buffalo milk, it seems difficult to attain in cow milk. In Western part of Maharashtra, ash content in cow milk powders is naturally high.

In our laboratory, we have tested hundreds of cow milk samples received from various farms and ash content is seen to range between 0.61 to 0.82%. Also ash content in skimmed milk powder ranges between 8.2 to 8.5%. It seems the specs are framed keeping buffalo milk into consideration.

Mineral profile in the two species varies to some extent which leads to variation in mineral contents in the powders made from these milks. Moreover cow milk has SNF of around 8.2-8.3%, while buffalo has above 9.2% SNF.Thus, ash onSNF basis in cow milk powder is above 8.2% .Different literature also explains typically ash content in

SMP as 8.2 to 8.6%.

Nutritionally, Ash constitutes mixtures of minerals and trace elements that are useful for well-being of humans and it is not a negative attribute of milk, unless someone has deliberately added neutralisers or salts to counter developed acidity, for which other tests can be designed. But surely, limiting the ash content in SMP to 8.2% is definitely not fair.

We have tested many milk samples obtained from cow farms in this region, and found Ash content to test around 8.1 to 9.5% on SNF basis on individual basis. On composite bulk milk samples of milk produced in our milk shed, we have observed ash content to be 7.6 to 8.9, with an average of 8.4% on SNF basis. Also we have tested some SMP of different brands from cow milk produced in our region and found the ash content of 8.1 to 8.5%.

There appear to be strong reasons for revision of standards for Ash content in SMP. Some reasons that warrant this revision are as follows: i. The standards appear to be made based on buffalo milk. Cow milk has relatively higher Ash content. ii. The milk drawn from the udder of a cow has also been found to have higher Ash than the prescribed by regulations

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iii. Further SMP can also have added permissible stabilisers up to 0.3% due to technological reasons, permitted by Indian regulations, which further increases the ash content, if added iv. CODEX , which is the internationally accepted apex body for making regulations for various milk products does not have any specs for Ash content. Neither there are any standards for Ash in the ADPI grade powder of the United States, Australia, NZ, Canada etc. The reason is that except for sodium, all other elements are good for health. v. In the Indian regulations, there appears to be a mismatch in ash of WMP and SMP. While the standard for ash in WMP is 7.3%, and that of SMP is 8.2%. WMP contains 26% fat, which is free from ash, and thus 7.3g of ash is permissible in (100-26-3% moisture) or 71g of SNF or 10.2% on SNF basis.Similarly ISI marked Dairy Whitener (DW) has 5.5% ash on dry matter basis. DW has 20% fat and 18% sugar, which do not have any ash.

Now converting the ash of DW, the ash content in SMP should be 5.5 x 96/(100-18-20) or 8.5%.

There is thus a strong need for revision of standards of SMP with respect to Ash content.

(By Dr. Vijay Jailkhani Team Leader, QA, Schreiber Dynamix Dairies. For any queries, please email:vijay.jailkhani@schreiberfoods. com)

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ight weeks of embracing the size and complexity of the China market for dairy products has left Nathan Sheppard excited about the possibilities for exporting fresh pasteurised New Zealand milk into the region.

Eight weeks of embracing the size and complexity of the China market for dairy products has left Nathan Sheppard excited about the possibilities for exporting fresh pasteurised New Zealand milk into the region.

“It’s the most alien world you could imagine in every way – at the same time awesome but very frustrating,” the Lincoln University masters

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“But the size and complexity can also mean opportunity.”

Fresh milk is the second-fastest growing category in China for dairy products with 10% year-onyear growth since 2011, behind drinking yoghurt, and the companies who have entered the market so far are making great returns of about $15/litre at retail. However, after spending eight weeks in the country on a Prime Minister’s Scholarship, Sheppard said it wasn’t for the faint-hearted.

The Chinese market was incredibly complex and segmented, requiring 300 different market strategies that would work on a micro-market level with individual cities, he said.

While it was considered very desirable and healthy in China to feed children and old people fresh pasteurised milk from grass-fed cows, Sheppard said the reality of lack of cold-chain logistics across much of the country constrains the market to the eastern seaboard, but there were plenty of potential wealthy clients in the mammoth cities that make up the region.

“The product is quite vulnerable to a food safety scare in terms of growth of the market, but at the end of the day fresh is perceived as healthier – it’s more desirable to the consumer.”

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“With a fresh product the customs clearance is very important, because fresh milk has a shelf life of only 14 days, so if it’s not there within 10 days the consumer is definitely discounting it.”

Sheppard said the Jackie Harrigan greatest vulnerability was the customs clearance, and success was down to the relationship the importer had with the customs officials.

NZ companyOravida was one of the most successful in the market and managed to land fresh milk into the market within five days, because of close partnerships with Chinese companies.

The importing process was one of the most interesting parts of the supply chain, and Sheppard said while “grey business practices” had largely been stomped out, they still existed in the form of importing agents acting as a third party to speed up the process.

“It’s very different compared to western practices, but everyone operating there needs to understand the implications of these grey areas being common business practices – you can’t have a moral high ground attitude or else you just get thrashed in the market.”

Sheppard said an opportunity still existed to join the boom in the fresh milk market.

“All the risks are heightened with the shortened shelf life of a fresh product, but a big company that can internalise the supply chain could make it work, or else a company with a great brand reputation – a proven NZ domestic brand that has grown well and would be highly desirable for a Chinese partner.”

“You need to have a Chinese partner that values and really wants your brand and that creates some interdependency within the partnership – with an alignment of interests of both parties giving security to the relationship.”

With interdependency the partner would work hard towards covering those vulnerable stages in the supply chain, rather than just contracting someone to provide a service, Sheppard said.

“There are just so many risks if you don’t get the product there within 10 days – an in-market partner has to make that happen.”

Sheppard was keen to learn about the China dairy market for his Masters in Management in Agribusiness and wanted to see the market through a different lens, so opted to study market opportunities for a smaller product, rather than the big three of commodities, UHT and infant formula.

He gained valuable in-market contacts through NZX AgriHQ analyst Susan Kilsby and international trade consultant Ruth Richardson and after travelling and investigating the fresh milk market he spent time learning Chinese in the south of the country, a language that he would love to use in a career within the sector.

Keen to enter the export arena when he signs off his masters study in June, Nathan said he could see a couple of NZ companies, with strong brands both within the country and actively producing fresh milk in China, that would be well-positioned to enter the fresh milk market.

“I think we have a fantastic opportunity with all the Chinese tourists arriving in NZ to make a really strong connection with them while they are here and reinforce our food safety and fresh milk brands – knowledge they would then take home with them.”

“Social networking is very strong in China and that could be a key way of strengthening our fresh safe farm brand to potential consumers.

“It would be an exciting market to be involved in.”

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MILK MAP

Mapping the consumption of milk and meat in India

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ue primarily to religious restrictions, vegetarianism is widespread in India. But very few Indians follow a vegan diet in which all animal products are avoided. Milk and other dairy products, derived from both cows and water buffalos, are avidly consumed across a large portion of the country. Indeed, India is the largest milk producer in the world by a good margin, having recently surpassed the entire European

Union, and Pakistan ranks fourth. Milk is India’s leading agricultural commodity, produced on some 75 million dairy farms, most of which are quite small. Beginning in 1970, the Indian government provided high levels of support for the dairy industry through its “Operation Flood,” which doubled per capita milk consumption in a 30-year period.

But milk drinking and the consumption of other dairy products is by no means uniformly distributed across India. Instead, as the maps posted here indicate, the country has a strong longitudinal gradient in this regard. Milk drinking is pronounced in the northwest but is relatively rare in the northeast, with per capita consumption on the state-level varying by well more than an

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At one level, the east/west dairy disparity in India is easily explained on a genetic basis. In northwestern India, the vast majority of people are lactose tolerant, and hence can drink milk without digestive problems into adulthood. In eastern India, on the other hand, most adults are lactose intolerant. (Some dairy products, however, are generally digestible by those with lactose intolerance; this is particularly the case with ghee, or clarified butter, an essential component of many Indian dishes.) Lactose tolerance in western India may be connected to the Bronze-Age movement of Indo-Europeanspeaking people into South Asia. Although lactose tolerance has evolved separately in at least four different areas of the world, it appears that Europeans and Indians share the same genes that allow milk digestion into adulthood. As was reported in a 2011 Wall Street Journal blog post:

Speaking at the inaugural session of the 44th Dairy Industry Conference on “Dairying in India by 2030: Make in India” organised by the Indian Dairy Association- North Zone, here RS

“Not only that, but by looking at nearby genetic regions we could show that the Indian -13910T has the same origin as that found in Europeans; that it could lead back to the same few people who may have migrated between Europe and India,” Mr.Kivisild said.

“India was an unknown quantity…because cattle had been domesticated independently in India around seven or eight thousand years ago, we were expecting to see uniquely Indian genetic causes,” the study’s lead author, Irene Gallego Romero, said in the statement.

“To our surprise we found that the -13910T mutation was also common in India – especially in those populations with

… According to Brhadddharmapurana, the rohita shaphara and sakula etc. white fish with scales are allowed for brahmins. Jimutvahan mentions oil from illisa as commonly used. However, fish that live in holes or in mud, fish whose head is

Researchers were expecting a similar independent evolution to have taken place in India, the world’s largest milk producer and consumer. But to their surprise, they found mutation -13910T, which originated in Europe some 7,500 years ago, at high frequency in India as well.

Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation cautioned, “India has biggest milk market with growth rate of 5 per cent. Dumping of milk products from Europe, Australia and New Zealand should not be allowed, as it would harm the Indian dairy industry.”

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a tradition of milk drinking,” added Toomas Kivisild, a senior author of the study.

In non-milk-drinking northeastern India, the lack of protein in the diet is generally made up by the consumption of meat, eggs, and fish.

Vegetarian precepts are much weaker among Hindus in northeastern India than among those in the west. In Bengal, even Brahmins—whose dietary restrictions are pronounced—are allowed to eat fish, which can seem shocking to those from western India. The widespread consumption of fish in northeastern India is probably linked both to the abundance of fresh-water fish in this humid region and to the fact that most people here cannot digest milk.

Evidently, fish eating—or at least the consumption of certain kinds of fish—is a long-standing practice among Bengali Brahmins.

Later, restrictions on certain other kinds of meat were relaxed as well. As reported in a 2014 post

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Amul cautions govt against including milk in FTA

ndia is the largest milk producer in the world with an annual production of 146 million tons.

With several countries eyeing to capture a share of the market, experts suggest that the government should not include milk and milk products in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

shaped like a snake’s those that look ugly and those that do not have scales were not allowed for the brahmins.

Snails, crabs, chicken, crane, duck, camel, cow, and pigs were considered inedible by the upper caste, though no doubt at least snails, crabs, chicken, and various kinds of prescribed fish and birds were eaten by the common people.

order of magnitude. The same pattern is found on the maps of both urban and rural consumption. The only major difference between the two is the fact that urban dwellers, being wealthier on average, tend to drink more milk than rural dwellers.

Sodhi listed five major challenges facing the Indian dairy industry — adulteration, lack of value addition by milk processors, controversy over cow and buffalo milk, lack of interest in dairying as a profession, flow of milk and milk products from other countries in the name of FTA. Cautioning against the consumption of loose milk, Sodhi said it could be harmful due to adulteration.

Talking about Amul, Sodhi said the company had been expanding its business out of Gujarat, including Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and other states. “Around 17 per cent of our milk comes from out of Gujarat,” he said.

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Chicken (and eggs of hen) were not popular and in fact is still not popular/not consumed in many Bengali Brahmin families. The reason is historical and has to do with the fact that hen farms/poultries were owned by Muslims and hence Hindus had religious reservations against consuming such items. However, in recent times chicken and eggs have come to be accepted unilaterally across all Bengalis.

The high levels of meat consumption in such Indian states as Goa, Mizoram, and Meghalaya, and Kerala is rooted in the fact that many or most of their inhabitants are non-Hindu (Christian in the first three cases; Christian and Muslim in the last). I am somewhat surprised that Jammu and Kashmir, a majority Muslim state, does not have a higher level of meat consumption. Note also that Chhattisgarh, a poor state in east-central India, has a low level of both milk and meat consumption.

Finally, as the last map shows, India is the overwhelming global leader in milk produced by water buffalos. The Chart Bin page on which the map posted here is found also has maps of cowmilk, goat-milk, sheep-milk, and camel-milk production. (courtesy:This article originally appeared on GeoCurrents)

NDDB to supply flavoured milk to school children

n a bid to deal with nutritional deficiency amongst kids in rural areas, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has roped in 15odd state federations for supplying each school going children with a sachet of flavoured milk daily across the country According to T Nanda Kumar, chairman, NDDB, the milk pouches (200 ml) would be supplied by various state federations to schools especially rural areas on actual cost basis while the respective state government would provide the required funds under the various social sector schemes. Besides, NDDB is seeking CSR funds allocated by the government owned enterprises to carry out milk distribution to rural students.

“Many of the state governments have shown interests in our proposals to distribute milk to children in the schools,” Kumar informs. He said that most of the country’s under-nourished population live in the rural and backward areas and the flavoured milk distributed to children in the schools would provide additional nutrition besides promoting dairy in the region.

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“Having creating a large milk infrastructure in the country through setting up state federations, milk unions and village dairy cooperatives, we decided to set out on a new initiative that will aim to address nutritional issues among children,” Kumar says adding that. NDDB and Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF or Amul) are collaborating in the project.

Under the ‘Gift Milk’ scheme, recently registered NDDB Foundation for Nutrition (NFN) aims at expanding the programme across the country. At present, the (NFN) is doing pilots for distributing flavoured milk at various schools in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana and Delhi. “We would give preference to schools in poorer areas of the country. The programme will provide a transparent electronic platform to connect people who want to participate as donors in the initiative,” he noted.

The Centre funds the Midday Meal Scheme which helps States provide nutritious meal to school children in primary and upper primary government and government-aided education centres.

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INNOVATION

An Ultra-Clean future for India’s Dairies

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ne of the biggest problems that India’s dairy producers are facing is contamination from microscopic airborne Avi Herzog,

contaminants like V.P. Marketing, Ltd. Israel Fischer Planning ` yeast, mould, spores and foodborne pathogenic bacteria like salmonella or listeria. Previously we assumed that low-ph products were low-risk for contamination because many types of bacteria and yeast have difficulty growing in these conditions. But even very lowlevels of contamination can create major spoilage problems that dramatically affect the shelf-life of

a product, and now dairies across the world are having to upgrade their production lines.

Vast amounts of money are being invested to create large clean rooms that maintain a sterile atmosphere inside the entire production environment. This can be an effective way of stopping airborne contaminants interfering with a product, but creating an ultra-clean production environment is expensive to install and extremely costly to maintain. Now, a new and more costeffective way of thinking is being implemented

in the world’s most advanced dairy plants – all thanks to Fischer Planning.

SteriVent® by Fischer Planning is the innovative and comprehensive engineering solution that lets you upgrade your existing production line without the need for expensive new equipment. Rather than creating and maintaining a clean room that surrounds your process tanks, the clever thinking behind the new Fischer Planning technology controls the atmosphere inside the process tanks themselves.This means that dairies in India can now significantly increase their product’s shelflife, whilst also improving its quality, by simply by installing SteriVent® air purifiers on their existing atmospheric tanks.

The SteriVent® system uses a method of high-efficiency sterile air filtration to create an ultra-clean, sterile production line from the point of pasteurization right up to point where it’s packaged.

It filters contaminants larger than 0.3 microns out of the external air, and creates a slight overpressure of about 20 millibar in the tank to protect its inner environment from the risk of exposure to contaminated air. Clean air then displaces the internal gases through the vent and maintains the clean zone throughout the process until the next CIP cycle If you want to upgrade your production line to protect your product from airborne contamination a Fischer Planning Hygiene Specialist can help.

They are dedicated helping the biggest names in the dairy and ESL market convert to an ultra-clean production line, and can help you avoid making the expensive common mistakes many dairy plants in India have been making. First they’ll review your existing line and consult with you on the potential

risks before recommending the most cost-effective way to transfer your existing line to an ultra-clean line from pasteurization to packaging - without unnecessary costs of purchasing costly new equipment.

The benefits of working with a Fischer Planning Hygiene Specialist is that he treats each production line individually and can advise you on how the SteriVent® system can help you minimize product waste, cleaning time and running costs – it requires Design And Build According To :

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as low as 0.2 KW to supply 500 cubic meters per hour of purified air. All of which translates into immediately saving money on capital investment and on operating costs.

The Fischer Planning Hygiene Specialist can also help you plan brand-new production lines. Incorporating the SteriVent ®system into your new line means that there’s no need for expensive new equipment because you can install it on existing atmospheric tanks, a single SteriVent® system can even be used for several tanks if necessary. And the poor air quality found in India is no problem because the SteriVent® ensures that

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your processing tanks are a completely sterile environment– even if they are kept outside. This means that you don’t need to invest in structures to house your tanks and there is no limitation on the size of your production line.

The SteriVent®system has already been successfully implemented in the most advanced dairy plants across the world especially in Europe and the USA.The technology has shown major promise in significantly extending the shelf-life of many dairy and ESLproducts such as drinking milk, cottage cheese and other liquid products.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

NewZeland PM says low dairy prices will rebound as Asian demand recovers from getting their products into overseas markets.

In a few weeks time, New Zealand officials are heading back to China to renegotiate the free-trade agreement with Asia's largest economy struck in 1998, which sparked a surge in the country's commodity exports for products such as milk powder, logs and meat, which he said was "a massive opportunity".

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rime Minister John Key says he's confident dairy prices, which have slumped below the cost of production, will rebound as growing Asian populations boost demand.

Dairy product prices have fallen for five of six auctions on the Global Dairy Trade platform this year, as the European Union signals, it will underpin production even in the face of global oversupply, and amid continuing Russian import bans and weaker demand from China following a build-up of inventories. Prices have remained lower for longer than expected, putting pressure on dairy farmer incomes, dairy debt levels and spending in rural communities. Key told the Platinum Primary Producers' annual conference in Wellington that he was confident prices would rebound on Asian demand.

"I understand dairy is weak at the moment," Key said, however, he said the factors behind the lower prices were "temporary".

"People, as they are wealthier, want protein and that’s happening in Asia," he says. "They are going to come right and they are going to come right because that consumer demand pattern is just enormous, it’s not going to change. There is just massive growth in these countries and they are going to keep going, it’s true in China, it’s true in India, it is true right across Asia."

Key said he was confident agriculture would remain the "lynchpin" of the New Zealand economy, even as it diversified with tourism having overtaken dairy as the country's largest export earner.

He said the government was focussing on removing blockages which prevented agricultural producers

"It works very well for us, but actually, we have outperformed it so well that we want to get even better access," he says.

One of the issues up for negotiation will be the removal of special safeguards that apply to exports to China of New Zealand agricultural products, but which do not apply to Australian exports under the year-old Australia-China FTA. Under most favoured nation clauses in the NZ-China agreement, both countries are entitled to improve the terms of the agreement to the standards applied to subsequent agreements with other nations.

Key told the conference New Zealand was also keen to get access for the country's chilled products.

New Zealand exported $1.21 billion of meat to China in 2015, however, current restrictions allow only frozen products to be shipped, limiting the potential for sales of higher value chilled meat to a growing middle class seeking more westernised food at restaurants, hotels and supermarkets.

The Meat Industry Association has said gaining access for chilled meat exports would open up an "enormous" potential market for the country's $6.83 billion meat export industry.

Key also reiterated that other countries such as China and Korea were likely to join the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) agreement which is ratified by the current 12 signatory countries.

"Other countries are going to line up and join TPP," he says. "It’s definitely my view almost certainly China will join, I think it’s highly likely that you will see Korea join, I think you will just continue to see others joining it in that phase so TPP is going to get bigger."

Land O’ Lakes to charge for over-production base programme, reports the US publication Dairy Herd Management.

The organisation’s base programme says that farmers could produce as much milk as they want, but if the milk could not be marketed, the over quota milk would have to carry the cost of displacing that milk.

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ilk production growth in the Midwestern US is pushing processing to capacity and is driving the move by the US milk processor Land O’Lakes, to charge milk producers for extra milk production. The co-operative has reportedly told its Midwestern state members it would charge producers for extra milk production from 2017.

Land O’Lakes’ producer members in the co-op’s Midwestern dairy region have received a letter informing them that they would join the Eastern and Western Dairy Region in the organisation’s

The co-op operative will use 2016 as the base year, commence operation in 2017 and will be reviewed each September thereafter.

Members producing less than 90% of their new Land O’Lakes quota would be eligible for reallocation in September, which would provide base pounds to other members or to be retained by the co-op.

Another issue is that of raw milk, where Land O’ Lakes has given notice that milk pickups will cease at any farm selling raw milk for direct human consumption, as a risk management action.

Indonesia plays pivotal role for Fonterra’s ASEAN

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ew Zealand’s largest dairy company Fonterra, which owns the popular Anlene brand in Indonesia, launched a packing plant in Cikarang, West Java, last year.

The company is competing against local brands such as Prenagen, HiLo and Ultrajaya. During a recent visit to Indonesia, Fonterra chief financial officer Lukas Paravicini spoke to The Jakarta Post’s Khoirul Amin about his company’s plan to strengthen its presence in the country. Below are excerpts of the interview.

Question: How is Fonterra’s new US$36 million manufacturing plant in Indonesia progressing?

Answer: It is fully finished and operational. We started mid-last year to produce, so we are already at a very good level of utilization and efficiency.

It is contributing significantly already to our Indonesian business by producing our Anlene and Boneeto products. What I think is very interesting is also how we transport best practices of knowhow and how we import that from our other plants around the world. I was very excited to see that our team in Indonesia, in a very short time, has taken those best practices and now runs a factory to the Fonterra standard.

We have still some capacity, so the full capacity [of the plant] would be about 20,000 tons a year.

Right now, we are at roughly 60 percent, which is very good for a six-month-old factory. What is important as well is our operational excellence, which means how well we run, is very high, so we’ve made a very good start.

We have a total of 290 workers and currently about 100 people in the factory. We believe the factory will run by about 160 workers at full capacity in the next six to 12 months.

Question: Why did your company choose Indonesia as the investment destination and how important is the country for your company’s business?

Answer: Fonterra is a large dairy company based in New Zealand. When you talk about dairy, you are talking about global dairy production of about 400 billion liters of milk. One of the largest dairy markets is India, but India consumes everything it produces. So, when you go from the 400 billion liters of milk you then go to the next segment, which is tradable milk, milk that is exported or imported because you do not have either enough milk to consume or you have too much product.

So, that is about 60 billion, that is 15 percent of the total milk and that is the market we are playing You have three regions that have big exports. New Zealand exports 95 percent of its production — roughly 20 billion liters of milk. The European Union, the 28 member countries, is the largest producer, especially Germany, Belgium and Ireland. Europe produces about 150 billion liters of milk, but only exports about 7 to 8 percent, so less than New Zealand’s export […]. Then you have the United States, which produces about 80 billion liters of milk and exports about 5 percent.

On the demand side, you have Russia, China and then a lot of the Southeast Asia region and Africa […] because those regions have difficulty producing quality milk on a large scale. New Zealand, meanwhile, is known for high-quality, pure fresh milk.

Fonterra has a market share of 60 percent of whole milk powder and about 55 to 60 percent of butter.

It is very relevant to play in the market where you trade milk, […] where there is naturally not enough milk and where growth is important. Dairy consumption is very much related to growth of population and urbanization. If you take Indonesia, the number of people that will come to the market and are more mobile and demand tasty but nutritious food will rapidly grow. And Indonesia has been growing in that sense. Clearly Indonesia is a key market for us in the ingredient business to provide what was milked. There is a lot of room in Indonesia. I think per capita consumption here is 12 liters a year, you take Malaysia at 40 liters, Singapore at 60 liters […]

So, Indonesia plays a predominant role in our

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strategy in capturing value in this growing dairy market through not only the ingredients, but also through Boneeto, Anlene, etc.

Indonesia is obviously well-positioned for us to leverage the regional position. Clearly the intent here is to grow in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia.

Clearly there is room for growth and to optimize our production across this region.

Question: Does Fonterra have any plan to expand investment in the country in the near future, for example to develop dairy farms?

Answer: We do. Again, Indonesia’s milk consumption is only 12 liters per capita. With our focus, with our passion for consumers, there will be growth.

Indonesia is a very competitive market because it is a very interesting market, a very growing market, the other companies are also looking at Indonesia […]. So yes, we would look at investing further in years to come in a growing business, and we will definitely contribute to dairy development in Indonesia.

Question: How do you foresee your business in the country this year and what can the Indonesian government improve to better facilitate your business?

Answer: We do not publish forecasts, but we would like to see the market to grow double-digits in the next few years to come.

We focus on the consumer and the brands you probably well know, but one of the segments we are growing very rapidly that is very important for Fonterra is a food service business. It is not always front of the mind but it is a key element to our strategy. I told you about ingredients, the next step is food service and consumer business. Typically if you look at the global business, right now 20 to 25 percent is consumer food business, 10 percent is food service.

I think every country can always work to improve the economic framework, the labor framework for business to better compete and especially for people to develop. Further liberalization and flexibility of labor market will continuously help […], further training, improvements in schooling and the whole education [system]. There is always room for improvement, but as a company we will work with whatever environment there is and develop what we can.

Question: How will Indonesia’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if materialized, benefit your business?

Answer: We look at free trade agreements from a more holistic point of view. I think like many smaller markets you probably have to go back and understand New Zealand history. Today, New Zealand’s dairy industry is absolutely subsidy-free and the most efficient dairy industry in the world.

Fonterra supports the New Zealand government very actively in any free trade agreement effort, be that with the EU, TPP, etc. So we welcome the TPP; it is a very good thing. Having said that, we are disappointed that with the TPP we did not take the opportunity to include the dairy industry in the reduction or abolishment of tariff and duty or barriers. So, the TPP will bring a lot of good things to many countries, but unfortunately we missed that big opportunity to include dairy. There are some benefits on beverages, but dairy was not really included to the extent we would have hoped, so the TPP would have a positive effect in the long run for all countries, including Indonesia, but I cannot really comment because it does not have much dairy. (courtsey: news sources)

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PRODUCTS PROFILE

FUNMEAL INDIA to hit Industrial choco- market “FUNMEAL INDIA” A Chocolate Venture of Lohiya Group is India’s leading manufacturer of finest & high quality Industrial cocoa Products such as

Ronak Lohiya

COMPOUND SLABS / Managing Director PURE CHOCOLATE SLABS/ CHOCOLATE PASTE / CHOCOLATE DIPS /CHOCOLATE CHIPS which are majorly used by food processing industries like ICE CREAM, BISCUIT, BAKERIES, HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & HOMEMADE CHOCOLATES, etc.

Ronak Lohiya, Managing Director, FUNMEAL INDIA says , the demands for chocolates in India is increasing significantly over the last decades and growth tremendous is expected in the years to come. So to meet the demands of chocolates in India LOHIYA GROUP who was manufacturing sodium bi-carbonate, sodium carbonate, caustic flakes, detergents, ultramarine blue for paints, rubber, and plastic etc for last 75 years has decided to diversify its field & set up its new venture “FUNMEAL INDIA” as industrial chocolate unit in India."

Company has closely worked on its process, engineering, R&D and developed innovative processing structure from raw material storage to final product packaging. The system works according to strict food safety standards and by looking forward to this, Company has

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designed a lean organisational structure with well qualified experienced team focussing on safety, productivity, consistency, quality and customers satisfaction.

Company ensures the hygienic and high quality products with state of art manufacturing facilities to provide the best and unique products according to FSSAI and International Standards and to give high quality product the company is sourcing best quality raw material from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Lohiya also shares company’s future plans of setting up their own 'Cocoa Powder' manufacturing unit in India to make its raw material backhand more strong and soon company is planning to set up well-equipped specialised chocolate application lab. Company’s main focus is on to make a strong presence in the Indian market and process is going on to set up three more industrial chocolates units zonal wise all over India.

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TECHNOLOGY

Making the world’s favourite: Cheese

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asta filata cheeses, of which mozzarella is the most widely known type, are Italian dairy specialities known worldwide. In recent years, their increase in consumption has outstripped other cheeses, mainly owing to the increasing consumption of pizza.

One of the reasons for the growth in the

Pasta filata cheeses are growing in popularity. Mario Nino Negri, MD of GEA CMT in Italy discusses production methods consumption of pasta filata cheese is the increasing trend for consumers to care about what they eat: more customers now want products with a fresh, light style with a subtle flavour. Mozzarella, for example, fits this profile perfectly. It is delicious eaten fresh and is essential for many Italian dishes.

It is also a fast turn around product for producers providing an immediate return on the investment in raw materials and production time as mozzarella is ready for consumption immediately without the need for a ripening period. The slogan, ‘Yesterday milk, today mozzarella, tomorrow on the table’ clearly illustrates how quickly the product can be turned into fast cash flow. That said, there are two main different types of pasta filata cheese available on the market. Mozzarella has high moisture

content, is made in different shapes and sold in handy-sized packages.

It is dipped in a preserving liquid giving it a shelf life of around 30 days.

Industrial products, so called pizza cheese, have a lower moisture content, are packed for commercial use and have a much longer shelf life of up to four months. This product is essential for another Italian favourite, the pizza.

Provolone, Scamorza and Caciocavallo cheeses have a lower moisture content and are matured for weeks; Scamorza can also be smoked. This process intensifies the taste of this typical Italian product.

Mozzarella can be made with either buffalo or cow’s milk or by a combination of them. The table below shows the chemical composition of the relative products: Chemical composition and medium energy value for 100 g of product

Production technology The pasta filata cheese production process makes

a clean, sour curd that, with the addition of heat, acquires the characteristic “filanti” features: it can be stretched and moulded for a range of applications.

The main process steps are as follows: • Milk is heated to 35°C-38°C in a cheese making vat.

Rennet is added for coagulation. Depending on the specific recipe different starters or acids– citric, lactic or vinegar – are added for acidification process to reach pH 4.9-5.8. A combination of starters and acids is also common.

• The curd is cut into pieces.

• A second heating process up to 40°C-42°C is necessary for Provolone and Scamorza cheeses.

• The soured curd is stretched at 60°C-62°C with the traditional warm water or with the CMT steam injection process (or a combination of them) to create a plastic and extensible consistency with optimized fibre length.

• The pasta filata is moulded in different shapes and configurations at a temperture of around 60°C. • The product is cooled, smoothly, down to 10°C before packing.

• Pasta filata cheeses are required to be salty; this can be done through direct salt addition or through a brine vat.

Each specific recipe for pasta filata cheeses can change from product to product and from market to market; the different milk compositions, caused by different feeds or milk production techniques, that also affect the final product. Each producer has his own recipe.

Features of Biological Acidification (starters) • Traditional product • Superior organoleptic quality • Protection against contamination • Longer shelf life.

Features of Chemical Acidification (acids) • Reduced acidification time • Industrial efficiency increase (reduced production time) • Softer structure

• Light taste.

Differences The manufacturing technique changes when producing mozzarella compared with pizza cheese.

Fresh mozzarella (bocconcino, ciliegina and treccia) is a very soft cheese with a high moisture content (58-65%). Production requires the use of pasteurized whole milk to which enzymes and rennet are added. This is coagulated at 35-38°C followed by curd stretching.

The cheese is generally lightly salted during stretching phase. Moulding, hardening and packing phases follow.

Pizza cheese has a lower moisture content (4852%) and is obtained from full fat or skimmed milk. The curd is processed at 35-38°C, followed by a maturation period and a stretching process.

Moulding, brining and hardening occur before packaging.

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New technology- filtration forward P roducts such as Greek style yogurts, microfiltered drinks, increased hygiene demands and the drying of dairy has led to more demands on the filtration processes used in a facility. Here, Daniel Vecsey, market development manager, food and beverage at Domnick Parker, answers questions about this part of the process.

Q. What is the fastest growing area in dairy filtration?

The processing of dairy products is continually reliant upon filtration techniques in order to produce products that are not only safe, but also shelf-stable and high quality. In previous years, the biggest area of growth has been concerned with filtration techniques for whey separation, but increasingly producers are looking towards liquid and gas sterilisation to have a greater control of microbial contamination within their process.

Controlling microbial hazards throughout the processing of sensitive food is of greater importance now than ever before.

With a growing consumer base demanding fresh tasting, quality products from brands they can rely upon, processing systems must be maintained at the highest hygienic standards to be successful.

Q. What products seem to be selling best and why?

The increasing requirements for producers to have greater control of microbial hazards has been seen through an increase of sterile gas filtration systems within the dairy industry, such as filtration technology for gas purification in the manufacture of microbially sensitive food.

In addition to sterile gas filtration systems, we have also seen increased sales of filter testing equipment, as producers appreciate the importance and benefit

of hygienic processing, good manufacturing practices and applying the principles of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) to their process.

Q. How has the market changed as the end product mix has changed?

The scope of dairy products now available is huge and novel products containing probiotic and functional components are continually being launched. These novel products present new processing challenges to the dairy industry and manufacturing principles similar to pharmaceutical manufacturing are being adopted to ensure effective microbial control.

Q. What issues should dairy processors consider when looking at filtration equipment?

Food processing and packaging operations are

typically in warm and humid environments, perfect for the growth of microorganisms. Certain species of microorganisms can pose significant risks, not only to product quality and spoilage, but also to the consumer.

Controlling invisible microbial hazards can be costly and inefficient if the risks are poorly understood. One area of critical importance is the risk posed by product contact gases used in processing and packaging operations. Any gas that comes into direct contact with the food or food contact surfaces is deemed critical, and should be sterile filtered to prevent contamination.

The performance of the sterile gas filter system is therefore critically important to prevent contamination.

However, filter performance from products claiming to be sterile can vary from different manufacturers.

So how do users ensure they are using the right filter, and that the process is adequately protected?

We recommend that only filters which have been validated to provide sterile filtrate, under worse case bacterial challenge conditions, should be used to achieve the highest levels of hygienic processing.

Q. What issues are affecting the industry?

Within the dairy industry

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there is still an unacceptably high degree of microbial contamination affecting packaged foods, contributing in some part to the global food wastage issue. This demonstrates that even in modern processing environments, the industry is not perfect and there are still many improvements that can be made, particularly with respect to hygienic processing.

This situation can be compounded by the increasing product diversity, coupled with the threat of new and emerging microbiological contaminants such as heat resistant moulds and thermophilic acid bacteria.

As such, these trends are driving an increasing need for greater microbial control within dairy processing and packaging operations.

By understanding these aspects, the risks of microbial contamination from product contact gases can be controlled and almost completely eliminated from the process.

Source: Dairy Industries international U.K

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Paying more for less production in EU processors decide to order again from the Milk Foundation, the capacity that FC had just built stays empty, costing enormous amounts of money.

It is a very dangerous, but realistic scenario.”

Problem at EU level In recent months, unchecked growth as a pan-EU strategy has caused huge problems and already driven many dairy farmers to ruin, she says. With prices in some cases at just €0.20 per kg of milk, survival is simply impossible for many farms.

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reisland Campina has introduced an instrument for countering further increases in production in the milk market. The idea is for a bonus payment to encourage dairy farmers not to increase or even to reduce their production.

The producers are to be paid an extra two euro cents per kilo of milk if during the period from 1 January to 11 February 2016 they supply not more, or even less, milk. This offer also applies to the German members of the dairy.

Sieta van Keimpema, vice president of the European Milk Board, says, “The dairies, too, are making it clear that unchecked growth in volume is problematic, and there must be instruments to counter it. Friesland Campina (FC) has opted for a voluntary limit on supply, or a voluntary restraint on supply, because that is a very effective way of reducing volumes. It means positive action can be

Dutch dairy giant Friesland Campina is to reward farmers for less production, but the problem is deeper than one processor. Suzanne Christiansen and Henrik von Suhr report taken in the market and distortions prevented.”

Udo Folgart, vice president of the German Farmers’ Association (DBV), agrees. “Such decisions must be taken by dairies in liaison with their members on the basis of entrepreneurial and marketing opportunities. We therefore welcome this step by the company. This approach by Europe's largest dairy cooperative also confirms that in the dairy sector, action is needed to shape the supply relationships.”

He says the current situation is unsatisfactory both for dairies and for dairy farmers: the dairies can,

despite regular queries, not currently estimate reliably the amount so they know how much milk will actually be delivered to them in the future.

And the farmers have no certainty as to the level of the producer price. “The responsibility must be shared between the dairies and their milk producers and be defined by the supplier relationships, which must be designed so that both agricultural entrepreneurs as well as dairies can predict longterm economies. It is about a modern refinement of the delivery obligation and the arrangements of volumes, prices, qualities and about the duration of these agreements,” Folgart says.

However, the Dutch company has not made its decision just to help sort out the market, Siesta van Keimpema says. “The reason Friesland Campina decided to implement this arrangement is because they lack processing capacity. They didn’t implement this arrangement to clean up the dairy market or improve the farmers’ milk price. That is why the arrangement will only last six weeks and has no relation to the current market situation.

I don’t think other dairies will follow Friesland Campina". ” In fact, this move may not even sort out the issue it is meant to, Siesta van Keimpema says.

“FrieslandCampina can face the same problems in a very short time again, because it counts on the delivery of 1.2 billion kg of milk to the Dutch Milk Foundation that it does not process itself.

(The provisions of this arrangement are in English here: http://www.stichtingdmf. nl.) “The danger of this arrangement for Friesland Campina is that if the spot market prices stays low, because of the growing flood of milk and the lack of demand, no dairy will order milk by contract from the Milk Foundation, leaving FC with too much milk that it has no processing plants for. If FC builds more processing capacity to process the milk themselves, but that they always have to reserve for the Milk Foundation, and the other Dutch dairy

“Up until now the Commission has not taken the right steps, because they have decided to abandon the milk sector with the current CAP. The Commission counts on the market instruments available like public intervention and private storage. These measures however, have had no positive effect at all since they were implemented from August 2014 onwards. But, if the Commission will be held by the European Parliament to the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Treaty of Lisbon Article 39, the CAP should, and I quote: ‘Ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, in particular by increasing individual earnings of persons engaged in agriculture; and stabilize markets.“Extra market instruments have to be implemented as soon as possible to follow up on the objectives for the dairy police in the Treaty of lisbon."

“This instrument ought to be applied not just at individual dairies, but throughout the EU and thus managed centrally. Initiative on the part of individual dairies is not enough. It is up to politicians in particular to establish the proper legal framework for this, stipulating a market volume that enables prices to cover producers’ costs.”

Alluding to the passive attitude of EU

Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan, Siesta van Keimpema adds, “The EU politicians must finally act now to stop this development and cannot pursue their ignorant line further. Put into practice a Market Responsibility Programme on an EU level with voluntary restraint on supply as the key element to enable the milk market to finally recover.

Helping volatility The European Milk Board has now developed an instrument that will only be activated in crisis periods, as a crisis instrument. This is called the Market Responsibility Programme(http://www. europeanmilkboard.org/ special-content/marketresponsibilityprogramme. html). To keep the milk price stable in a sustainable matter, other measures have to be taken, described in the following study: http://www. europeanmilkboard. org//emb/ studies.html Source: European Milk Board sector worldwide and you have to conclude that liberalisation in the dairy sector, industrialises this sector as it has changed the other agricultural sectors, leaving producers in a very vulnerable position and strengthening the position of the industry and retail.”

DBV vice president Folgart also thinks that the entire dairy sector is required to confront this issue: “After all, the major political actors have recognized that government intervention does not solve the question of total individual production volumes,” he states. The good news is that the

links in the supply chain are now talking, Folgart says. “The debate on the design of the supply relationship is now initiated.”

Source: Dairy Industries international U.K

“Unfortunately, this situation will continue as long as production and demand are not in balance. In fact, this situation will continue – if policymakers decide to keep looking the other way – first, until enough cows and farmers will have gone out of business. I mention cows especially, because right now what we’re seeing in the EU, a lot of farmers go out of business but their milking cows are taken over by other dairy farmers, so production even keeps growing despite of all the farm closures.

“The situation will not ease over a long period of time: volatility is an element of the free market. Just look at the pork and the poultry

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Organic food more beneficial, study finds

new study in the British Journal of Nutrition shows organic milk and meat contain around 50 per cent more beneficial omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic. In addition to organic milk and meat, the nutritional differences also apply to organic dairy like butter, cream, cheese and yoghurt. The study is the largest systematic reviews of its kind and led by Newcastle University and an international team of experts.

Key findings include: • Both organic milk (dairy) and meat contain around 50 per cent more beneficial omega-3 fatty acids than conventionally produced products organic meat had slightly lower concentrations of two saturated fats linked to heart disease • Organic milk and dairy contain 40 per cent more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) - CLA has been linked to a range of health benefits including reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and obesity, but evidence is mainly from animal studies • Organic milk and dairy contains slightly higher concentrations of Iron, Vitamin E and some

carotenoids • Organic milk contains less Iodine than nonorganic milk.

Speaking about the research, Helen Browning, Chief Executive of the Soil Association said; “This research confirms what many people have always thought was true -what you feed farm animals and how you treat them affects the quality of the food - whether it’s milk, cheese or a cut of meat.

These scientists have shown that all the hard work organic farmers put into caring for their animals pays off in the quality of the food they produce giving real value for money."

“Organic farming methods require all organic farmers to adopt techniques that guarantee nutritionally different foods. Following research in 2014 confirming nutritional differences between organic and non-organic crops like fruit and vegetables – we can now say for certain that organic farming makes organic food different.”

The difference in Omega 3 is because organic animals eat a more natural grass-based diet containing high levels of clover. Clover is used

in organic farming to fix nitrogen so that crops and grass grow (instead of manufactured/chemical fertilisers), and this research has found that clover also increases the Omega 3 concentrations in meat and milk. Under organic standards, organic cows must eat a 60 per cent fresh grass based diet or hay/silage (conserved grass).

Historic research highlighted that organic milk contained less Iodine. However, the industry has taken steps to address this. OMSCo (the Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative) representing over 65 per cent of the UK's organic milk supply, announced that in 2015 organic milk had achieved comparable levels of Iodine to conventional and in 2016, following recent testing of bottled milk, they announced these levels of Iodine have been maintained. Richard Hampton, managing director at OMSCo, said; “We initiated projects to boost Iodine levels and applied these to our farmer members’ enterprises, and by early 2015 we announced that we’d achieved comparable levels with those in the conventional

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xcerpts: Mention some of the products that you cater to the Dairy Industry.

We supply full range dairy ingredients from cheese, Herve Lanoe G.M, FIT

AMF, SMP, FCMP to WPC, WPI, MPC, MPI casein, caseinate, special blends and specialised dairy co-products.

What are your opportunities that you foresee in India?

Sourcing for some export markets.

What are your future plans and the current status of your business in India?

Almost Nothing. It’s hard to sell in India. We had a very interesting prospective in the past for SMP, Butter and Cheese; however, we have a sad story with our Indian partner.

Do you think that Indian dairy processing companies are open for world-class ingredients for their products and brands?

Well! It’s difficult for the time-being to reach the international quality for ingredients and not easy to reach as India does not need to export and she is a protected market. Therefore, there is no need for the Indian dairy industry to improve the quality at EU or NZ standards.

Both the Indian dairy industry and consumers are still experimenting with ‘Cheese’. How do you see the potential for cheese market in the coming years in the country?

Certainly, the cheese segment will have a huge impact in the coming years. We were convinced about it when we gave the advice to our past Indian partner to invest in this segment, instead of casein as he was supposed to do!!!

Your comments on Dairy trade with India in the near future.

It really depends to your internal market. Will you export and Can you import? If India is not acting on the international market, dairy trade will not exist. Trade needs a free market.

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market. Our latest results have shown that one year on from the initial milestone we’re maintaining those levels.”

Richard Smith, Senior Farms Manager from Organic Meat Producers Daylesford Organic, said; “We farm organic red meat on a grass-based, home-grown forage diet which delivers a superb quality. In addition to other benefits of producing food in an organic system, this land-mark paper now also confirms what we've always known; there is also a significant nutritional difference between organic and non-organic.”

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Global-Role of International Dairy Federation

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he International Dairy Federation (IDF, www.fil-idf.org) was established in 1903 by leading European dairy countries. It has since expanded to global membership, its 45 member countries covering approximately 75% of global milk production and more than 80% of dairy product trade.

Dr. Nico Van Belzen, Director General, IDF

IDF represents the entire dairy sector, including farmers, processors, suppliers, public research institutes and (in some member countries) government agencies as well. The organisations that represent IDF in their country are called National Committees. Often a local dairy organisation manages the National Committee; in India, it is the National Dairy Development Board.

IDF’s key role is to achieve global consensus and to represent the global dairy sector, especially towards intergovernmental organisations and other key international decision makers. IDF is officially recognised by FAO and OIE, and also comments on behalf of the dairy sector to WHO. IDF has a long-standing collaboration with ISO to jointly develop global standards related to dairy.

The growing world population needs nutritional security. IDF’s vision is to help nourish the world with safe and sustainable dairy products. To achieve its vision, IDF has defined four key areas it needs to address: nutrition, sustainability, food safety and quality, and standard setting.

In the area of nutrition, IDF supports sciencebased nutrition policies to ensure that dairy is an integral part of the diet for all age groups. This is complemented by the mission for sustainability, which aims to support a vibrant dairy sector committed to continuously improve its ability to provide safe and nutritious milk and dairy products from healthy animals whilst preserving natural resources and ensuring decent livelihoods across the whole dairy value chain. The area of food safety and quality aims to safeguard the integrity and transparency of the dairy supply

chain to ensure safety and quality of milk and dairy products. Underpinning the other three areas, standard setting develops science-based globally harmonized standards, guidelines, codes of practice and related methodologies, to continually improve regulatory environments for the dairy sector.

IDF’s recent achievements in nutrition include publication of a global survey of school milk programmes that was undertaken together with FAO; providing comments to WHO’s sugar guidelines ensuring science-based evaluation of sugars naturally present in milk; and organising a symposium on dairy fat and health. Current priorities include promoting the role of the dairy matrix in supporting optimal health, the important role of dairy in reducing under nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, and engaging in the interface between nutrition and sustainability.

Nutrition experts working with IDF are commenting on the report of the Committee on World Food Security High Level Panel of Experts entitled ‘Sustainable Agricultural Development for Food Security and Nutrition, Including the

Role of Livestock’, aiming to ensure that the importance of dairy for sustainable nutrition security is recognised. They are also commenting on the WHO guidelines for saturated and transfatty acids to highlight positive aspects of dairy fats.

In the sustainability area, IDF promotes the consideration of sustainability not only from the

environmental perspective but also from social and economic perspective. Regarding the latter, IDF publishes annually the World Dairy Situation Report, which provides data on dairy production and consumption as well as other market data from IDF member and other countries, thereby supporting access to effective, transparent and viable markets. IDF is one of the founders and governors of the Global Dairy Agenda for Action and its Dairy Sustainability Framework, which aligns and connects sustainability initiatives to demonstrate leadership and progress of the dairy sector.

Recent achievements include the 2015 IDF Carbon Footprint Guide, a revision of the 2010 document that, contributes to further reduction in green house gas emissions by the global dairy sector. IDF also represents the dairy sector in multi-stakeholder partnerships like the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock and in the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership. Current focus is on the next stage of LEAP as well as on IDF guides on water use and biodiversity.

Examples of recent achievements in food safety and quality include support of risk-based (rather than hazard-based) food safety management, guidance on the prudent use of antimicrobial agents and on how to detect antibiotic residues, and harmonisation of heat resistance studies that allow results of different studies to be compared to support international agreement of risk management of pathogens. Current activities include participating in the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene’s revision of General Principles of Food Hygiene and HACCP and promoting best practices of animal health and welfare management, including prudent and effective use of animal treatments.

Developments in the other three areas often lead to the developments of standards, which can also be initiated independently. Among other uses, standards are essential to facilitate global trade. Recent achievements in this area include protection of the term ‘milk’ in the Codex regional standard for non-fermented soy bean products.

Another example is the recent IDF/ISO Standard for the quantification of lactic acid bacteria by flow cytometry, which allows harmonised use of the most recent, time- and cost-effective methodology in starter cultures, probiotics and fermented products. Current focus is on the adoption of joint IDF/ISO/AOAC analytical standards for infant formula and milk products (fatty acids, iodine and other elements) by Codex, maintaining the differentiation of the Nitrogen Protein Conversion Factor for milk versus soy products in Codex standards, and continued engagement with other standard-setting bodies such as ISO, AOAC International and the US Pharmacopeial Convention.

Today, dairy is one of the most vibrant and strategic sectors, with a major impact on national economies, public health and the environment.

IDF is the leading source of scientific and technical expertise for all stakeholders of the dairy chain.

The organisation is home to over 1,000 experts covering nine areas of work: Animal Health and Welfare; Dairy Science and Technology; Economics, Policies and Marketing; Environment; Farm Management; Food Standards; Hygiene and Safety; Methods of Analysis and Sampling; and Nutrition. For over a century, IDF has shown its commitment to furthering current knowledge and science on a wide range of issues by triggering state-of-the-art projects across the dairy chain.

IDF is proud to include India, the largest dairy producing country, among its members and looks forward to jointly engage in a bright future for the dairy sector.

This Article is Submitted By Dr. Nico Van Belzen, PhD

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The French Dairy Industry,key driver of the French economy

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he Dairy Industry : a key driver of the French economy France is the second largest European producer of milk and dairy products. It has 3.6 million dairy cows and collects 24 Racheline Levi

billion litres of milk Team Expert, Adepta Franc per year that are processed by 700 units whose production value is estimated at € 27 billion.

Out of total production 40%is exported and 75 % of milk is transformed into consumers dairy products French consumption per person per year is estimated to 57 liters of milk, 25 kg of cheese, 30 kg of dairy products, butter 8kg.

The power of the French food industry is based on the French equipment Milk is carving out a special place in our modern society, and thanks to the amazing variety of its derivatives, a prominent place.

Cold chain is an essential function having important energy and financial position, which justifies a thorough reflection on the required performance against the cost involved Conservation treatments implement sterilisation operations, pasteurising, cooling or freezing.

The challenge is to respond to a compromise: provide bacteriological security of the products while preserving their organoleptic qualities.

Pasteurizers and sterilizers thus endow fine regulations to adjust the scales (time and temperature).

The manufacturing steps require a subtle balance between tradition and innovation, quality must be raised to the top without sacrificing taste of the product, know-how and technical ability of industrial equipment must be combined at the

cutting edge technology.

and agrifood projects of the world’s countries, providing a guaranteed and tailor made offer to match the needs expressed.

The preservation of the constituents, compliance with legal requirements, the easy control of the entire chain, visibility, optimal reliability for a sustainable high-quality products are key technologies that guarantee French equipment suppliers.

Manufacturer Packaging contributes to consumer safety, serves to prevent the loss of aroma and taste and to extend food life.

It is also an information support and a strong element of marketing. A crucial element!

The requirements cover health, safety and reliability of facilities. Customised technical solutions are offered by equipment engineering companies and suppliers to meet the specific needs of each company the ADEPTA brings together 240 French companies, genetics and inputs providers, manufacturers of equipment, who have joined their forces to meet in a concerted and comprehensive manner, the agricultural

Lactalis, Danone, Sodiaal, Bongrain, Bel are French groups which enjoy a worldwide reputation.

They are eager to meet the consumers continuous demand who feel themselves very concerned with the quality of the products. They perfectly master the stages of production and manufacturing, and rely on French equipment suppliers.

From the reception of raw materials to the final product packaging, French equipment suppliers offer a comprehensive range to meet the most diverse customer expectations and needs of increasingly sophisticated global agribusiness Each material is unique, each treatment must be adapted; each industrial process incorporates on its startup, constraints that manufacturers of equipment endeavor to overcome The first stages of food processes are designed to meet industrial safety requirements, profitability, and efficiency while respecting the product.

The objectives are to ensure quality, to be adapted to the market demand, to reduce losses.

HS-induced metabolomic affects energy balance of lactating dairy cows: A study

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eat stress (HS) damages the global dairy industry by reducing milk yields and quality, harming health, and damaging the reproduction of dairy cows, causing huge economic losses each year. However, an understanding of the physiological mechanism of HS in lactating dairy cows remains elusive. Here, a metabolomics study using LC-MS and 1H NMR spectroscopy was performed to analyze the metabolomic differences in the milk between HS-free and HS dairy cows, and discover diagnostic biomarkers and changes in the metabolic pathway.

The aforesaid abstract was published in the scientific reports of Nature.com.

According to the overview of the strategy used to identify diagnostic biomarkers of HS in lactating dairy cows, a total of 53 discriminating metabolites were significantly up- or down-regulated in the HS group compared with the HS-free group (P < 0.05).

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These biomarkers were involved in pathways of carbohydrate, amino acid, lipid, and gut microbiome-derived metabolism. Comparing these potential biomarkers with previously identified HS candidate biomarkers in plasma, significant correlations between the levels of lactate, pyruvate, creatine, acetone, β-hydroxybutyrate, trimethylamine, oleic acid, linoleic acid, lysophosphatidylcholine 16:0, and phosphatidylcholine 42:2 in milk and plasma were found, indicating that the blood-milk barrier became leaky and the levels of these 10 biomarkers in milk can reflect HS-induced metabolomic alterations in blood. These novel findings can support more in-depth research to elucidate the milk-based changes in metabolic pathways in HS lactating dairy cows.

Lactating dairy cows under heat stress (HS) experience limited energy intake, because they cannot meet their bodies’ demands to produce milk and maintain health, resulting in reduced milk yield and quality and leaving the dairy cows susceptible to diseases. As a result, large economic losses occur in the dairy industry in many countries, such as China, the US and Germany. HS-induced metabolomic disturbances are directly responsible for these losses. This is particularly important given the trends of increased milk productivity using modern molecular genetic technologies accompanied by the temperature increases arising from global climate change.

An accurate determination of when cows enter HS is complicated because the responses to HS affect not only the energy balance but also water, sodium, potassium and chlorine metabolism. Although the temperature and humidity index (THI) remains the most common indicator for HS, using the THI value of 72 as the threshold of HS onset, it allows only judgments based on the air temperature and humidity, is not an accurate measure of the metabolic alterations in dairy cows under HS, and does not account for cow-specific effects (age and breed), and other environment factors. Indeed, the HS-induced physiological changes in dairy cows are multifactorial. Robust metabolite biomarkers are needed to diagnose the threshold of HS onset, monitor its progression, and provide insights into its physiological mechanisms, thereby enabling the implementation of timely interventions to protect dairy cows from diseases, such as ketosis.

Previous research on the performance of dairy cows focussed on the HS-induced changes in their respiration rate, heart rate, milk yield, somatic cell counts, and protein, fat, lactose, basal non-esterified fatty acids (FA), insulin, thyroid, noradrenaline, glucose, and plasma urea nitrogen levels in milk. However, few studies have addressed the global changes in metabolic pathways, and the mechanisms underlying these changes remain unknown.

Metabolomics represents a powerful platform for acquiring the information from hundreds of thousands of low-molecular weight metabolites in plants, animals, humans and it can be used to provide a global understanding of the pathophysiological alterations stimulated by environmental changes. In dairy cattle, milk can be very conveniently collected, and that provides information on the changes in the lactation mechanisms of dairy cows and can be directly analysed to determine its nutritional quality.

Therefore, milk is regarded as the ideal biological sample for monitoring physiological alterations.

Compared to blood sampling, milk sampling is non-invasive It occurs on a daily basis and thus 'dairy cows’ metabolic states can be observed in real time. As a result, cows can be monitored, their HS state determined and prompt management strategies can be implemented to reduce the impact of HS.

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Mr. Devendra Bhai Shah Chairman, Parag Milk Food Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai Dr. J.B. Prajapati Principal & Dean, SMC College of dairy Science,

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

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

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

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

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