Indian Dairy News

Dec 12, 2025

TN Minister Urges Farmers to Adopt Tech for Value Addition in Dairy

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Listen to the Farm, Not the Farmer—The New Productivity Lens

India’s dairy sector, valued at nearly $30 billion, has reached a point where incremental changes will not deliver the next breakthrough. For decades, improvement programs have focused on what farmers...Read More

Dec 12, 2025

What’s Driving Change In Beverages, FMCG And Dairy in 2025

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Packaged milk price set for Rs 2-3/litre hike in West Bengal

By DairyNews7x7•Published on January 03, 2023

Major dairy players in west Bengal have decided to increase their milk prices by Rs 2-3 per liter in this week. This will be the third hike in last 1 year.

Amul has a 60% market share in a 1.6 mill LPD of Kolkata market. It sells 9 lakh lpd of milk in Kolkata and suburbd. It attributes price increase to the escalation in manufacturing costs .

Kaira district union has recently increased raw milk price of cow and buffalo milk to Rs 39.1 and rs 46.2 respectively. This may also be a factor to increase the prices.

Other major dairy players like keventers agro etc are also weighing options for a price increase soon.

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