A leaf out of Telangana’s Cooperatives : Collective Action
Farmers’ protest against the farm laws and subsequently their rollback by the government reflect the culpability of the market in the mess that the agricultural profession is in today, and…
How Multistate cooperatives function and why govt plans to amend the law
On Sunday, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah announced that the Centre has decided to amend the Multi State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002 to “plug the loopholes in…
Leverage WTO norms to reform the MSP regime: Phase out the freebies
It’s in India’s own interest to phase out free supply electricity and water and focus on productivity boosting infrastructure The macroeconomic impact of MSP has been neglected in the current…
Dairy sector in India: Can climate change limit its growth?
Only in a matter of three rigorous decades, India transformed its destiny from being a country witnessing acute milk shortage to a country leading the world in milk production, standing…
From Poor Cooperative to Successful Corporative : Ministry of Coop
A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations. They do it through a jointly owned and democratically…
Dairy Sahakar a 5Kcr scheme launched for encouraging dairy cooperatives
With an aim to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘from cooperation to prosperity’, Union Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah and Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying…
Why liquid nitrogen is critical to the Indian animal husbandry sector ?
In an age of extremely long as well as short shelf lives and preservation periods for products, goods and materials wherein logistics, storage, transportation and distribution have been key to…
Animal husbandry needs a proper ecosystem with market linkages
Dairy and poultry need a proper ecosystem comprising reliable animal feed supplies and FPOs with market linkages The global animal feed market is undergoing marked changes that are likely to…
The motivation for food fraud through milk adulteration is economic
Milk and dairy product adulteration came into global concern after breakthrough of melamine contamination in Chinese infant milk products in 2008. However, history of milk adulteration is very old. Swill…
Are Analogues Invading the Image of Dairy Products? (VKCoE),IRMA
A panel discussion on ‘Are Analogues Invading the Image of Dairy Products?’was organized by Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence (VKCoE), IRMA in association with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Gujarat…