From Forecast to Fact: 2025 Lessons, 2026 Dairy Outlook
As we step into 2026, it is worth pausing to reflect on how the Indian dairy sector navigated the challenges of 2025 and how closely reality tracked the forecasts I outlined in the first blog of last...Read More
India–NZ Dairy FTA: Safeguards or Silent Slippages?
The recently concluded India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) marks an important milestone in bilateral trade, while carefully ring-fencing India’s sensitive dairy sector. Under the agreement, c...Read More
Vision 2047: India’s Dairy Development Roadmap
As India moves steadily toward Vision 2047, the dairy sector stands at a strategic inflection point. From being a food security instrument in the decades following Independence, dairy has evolved into...Read More
Global Dairy Dynamics: Innovation, Sustainability & Inclusion
The International Dairy Processing Conference (IDPC) 2026, organised by the Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) at Yashobhoomi Convention Centre, Dwarka, New Delhi on 7 January 2026, will serve as...Read More
IDFA Celebrates Final Passage of Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 by voice vote, delivering final congressional approval for legislation that will restore whole and 2% milk to...Read More
India’s dairy sector enters a decisive decade
While going through the agenda of this upcoming dairy event "International Dairy Processing Conference (IDPC) 2026" curated by TPCi, I found the choice of sessions extremely relevant and timely for th...Read More
More Milk, Less Money: India’s Dairy Crisis
With the release of the BAHS 2025 summary report, I felt compelled to deep dive into its findings and reflect on the real progress and challenges facing India’s dairy sector. Over the last six years,...Read More
India Milk Prices: Cost Shock and Procurement Pressure
Milk prices in India face upward pressure as rising feed costs and procurement hikes reshape farm economics. Insight on dairy procurement, feed costs, and market outlook. Official government and coope...Read More
Stop Blaming, Start Claiming: Livestock’s Carbon Credit Future
This week, I had the opportunity to attend an Agri Carbon Masterclass conducted by CII FACE. The deliberations, case studies, and discussions presented during the session were both insightful and thou...Read More
India Powers the Gulf’s Dairy Revolution -Gulf Food 2025
As Gulf Food Manufacturing prepares to open its doors from November 4–6 in Dubai, Indian dairy product and equipment manufacturers have a unique opportunity to explore one of the most promising region...Read More
Planetary Health Diet and Dairy: Choosing More Than Two
I remember reading the EAT–Lancet Commission’s Planetary Health Diet report for the first time in 2019. It was being hailed as a global roadmap for feeding 10 billion people sustainably by 2050. At fi...Read More
Why India Must Turn to Dairy as a Nutrition Anchor
India’s recent Nature Medicine publication (ICMR‑INDIAB survey) shines a powerful light on what has long been suspected: our diets are dangerously imbalanced. Among 18,090 adults studied, 62% of daily...Read More