Drinking milk is an acquired habit since around 10,000 years back
Though Shashi Kumar, the co-founder and CEO of Akshayakalpa Organic, a farmer entrepreneurship initiative, was born into a farming family, it was never a career path his father wanted him to pursue. “I am not the exception. He educated me out of farming to become an engineer,” recalls Shashi, who went on to spend close […]
Akshayakalpa Organic introduces UHT pack to its product portfolio
Akshayakalpa Organic, India’s first certified organic dairy company and producer of the country’s most popular organic milk and milk based products, has expanded its market to 42 cities in the country to play a bigger role in the Indian dairy sector. With over 13 years of promise of bringing clean nutrition through milk and milk […]
Women entrepreneur who turned dairy start-up into success
Shivani Reddy, a B.Tech graduate, has always been inclined towards entrepreneurship since childhood. She took first tentative steps towards becoming an entrepreneur by quitting a lucrative job at Microsoft and deciding to take forward her husband’s hobby of breeding cows by starting Goudhaara at their Moinabad farm. It all began when she initially started receiving […]
Akshayakalpa Organic to add 1,800 farms in 2022-23 fiscal
Akshayakalpa Organic, a Bengaluru-based organic dairy products manufacturer, will add 1,800 new farms to its production cluster in order to strengthen its position in the existing markets, says Shashi Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Akshayakalpa Organic. Cluster farms are basically made up of several individual farms that are close to one another, and currently, the […]
Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy calls for promotion of organic milk
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday called for the promotion of organic milk and strengthening of services in veterinary hospitals in the state. During a review meeting of Animal Husbandry Department on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said, the production of organic milk should be promoted and awareness should be created among […]
Organic dairy firm Akshayakalpa raises $15 million to expand across India
Akshayakalpa Organic, an organic dairy enterprise, said it is raising $15 million in a Series B funding round from both existing and new investors. British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, Rainmatter Foundation, and its existing investor Venture Dairy have joined the Series B financing. The funding would strengthen Akshayakalpa’s efforts for promoting, […]
Need for financial support programme for organic food entrepreneur :AIOI
The Association of Indian Organic Industry (AIOI), a membership driven nonprofit organization registered under Section 25 of The Companies Act,1956, had organised a Webinar on 10th January 2022, Milk Co-operatives ,Diary Industries, Farms,Farmers , Startups ,Certification Bodies and consumers participated in the Webinar. Dr PVSM Gouri ,CEO and Executive Director AIOI in her welcome speech […]
Need for financial support programme for organic food entrepreneur :AIOI
The Association of Indian Organic Industry (AIOI), a membership driven nonprofit organization registered under Section 25 of The Companies Act,1956, had organised a Webinar on 10th January 2022, Milk Co-operatives ,Diary Industries, Farms,Farmers , Startups ,Certification Bodies and consumers participated in the Webinar. Dr PVSM Gouri ,CEO and Executive Director AIOI in her welcome speech […]
You must not use wood to put out the fire: Organic milk story in India
Last week I participated in a panel discussion organized by AIOI in a seminar on Organic Dairying in India. It was a wonderful experience attending the same and listening to the great insights of the key stakeholders. India is the largest producer of milk in the world with 7% of the contaminated milk. Aflatoxins and […]
Forest department set to launch organic Hallikar cow milk
The Male Mahdeshwara wildlife division of the Forest department took up new initiative to support farmers, thus making them to be less dependents of forest. This novel project is brain child of MM hills wildlife wing DCF, V Yedukondalu. Speaking to this reporter on Thursday he said that the project is first of its kind […]
