Paneer, Meat, Papad Will Cost You More From July 18.
The tax rates on certain goods and services will rise from July 18, including some new products brought into the the tax net, under the Goods and Services Tax (GST), according to the finance ministry after the GST Council meet. The GST Council has accepted the recommendations of a panel of State Finance Ministers and […]
CavinKare has launched its Cooking and Table Butter range
It is priced at ₹68 for 100g to ₹330 for 500g The Chennai-based FMCG major CavinKare has launched butter under its Cavin’s brand. It comes out with two variants – cooking and table butter. Manuranjith Ranganathan, Director, Retail, CavinKare, said that with the dairy segment expected to grow rapidly on changing dietary preferences, this would […]
GST rates levied on healthy dairying : buttermilk, curd, lassi and paneer
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Tuesday decided to remove a host of tax exemptions and hike rates for an even larger number of mass-consumption items. It approved a proposal to impose a 12% tax on hotel rooms costing below `1,000 per day and a 5% levy without input tax credit on hospital […]
The ‘Utterly Butterly ‘ Story Of India’s 75-year-old Iconic Brand Amul
It was nearly 76 years ago when the seeds of Amul were sowed in India in 1946. Amul was formed as part of a cooperative movement against Polson Dairy in Anand, Gujarat, which procured milk from local farmers of Kaira district at very low rates and sold it to the then Bombay government. Everyone except the farmers benefited from […]
Innovative dairy products cater to growing consumer emphasis on health
It can be hard to keep up with the latest health and diet fads. One minute you’re opting for fat-free everything in the supermarket, the next you’re told to up your healthy fats because in fact sugar is the real enemy. Eggs are in, eggs are out; carbs are bad, carbs are good – it’s all […]
Dairy farmers in AP cautioned against brucellosis among livestock
Vaccine to be given to four to eight month old calves District Collector P.S. Girisha on Monday said dairy farmers should be encouraged to get their livestock vaccinated against brucellosis. The Collector was launching the “Brucellosis Vaccine “ poster as part of the National Livestock Disease Vaccination Programme undertaken by the Department of Animal Husbandry. […]
70 % samples test +ve for tick-borne diseases among dairy animals
Livestock farmers are a worried lot as their animals are suffering from tick-borne diseases — theileriosis, babesiosis and anaplasmosis — which are dangerous for dairy animals, particularly for crossbreed animals. A report of the District Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (DDDL) of the Animal Husbandry Department here shows a grim picture that around 70 per cent animals […]
Govt planning to remove gst exemption on dairy products in phases
The Group of Ministers (GoM) formed for GST rate rationalisation met on 17th June 2022, making some key proposals. It shall be placing an interim report before the GST Council, scheduled to meet on 28th and 29th June 2022 at Chandigarh. Sources to media publications claim that the interim report mentions that any of the […]
Amul’s AI success: Bovines impregnated in 1st attempt
The joy of motherhood is universal irrespective of type or breed. But sometimes it even leads to many disappointments as well. But for the Amul dairy, it was good news all the way when its trials to turn bovines pregnant in first attempt of an artificial insemination (AI) cycle achieved grand success. This has been done through […]
Gujarat firm develops low-cost instant milk chilling unit
Dairy producers can now get their milk chilled at the procurement centres and prevent it from deterioration in quality and being spoilt due to increased bacterial counts. Cloud-based dairy equipment maker Prompt Equipments Private Limited, based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, has developed an economical instant milk chilling unit—MilkoChill—that can be set up at the milk collection […]