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India to join league of topGlobal Dairy ExportersINDIA STAKED ITS claim as adairy exporter with theannouncement by its topdairy group that it is to sellthrough Global Dairy Trade,the auction site, where pricesstand at record highs.Gujarat CooperativeMilk Marketing Federation(GCMMF), maker of Amulbrand milk products, will soonbe offering select products to global buyers through an international auction site.“We will begin selling our SMP (Skimmed Milk Products) and WMP(Whole Milk Powder) products through the Global Dairy Trade platform fromJune this year. It will provide us direct access to 900 global customers andhelp fetch a better price for our produce,” GCMMF Managing Director ShriR.S. Sodhi said.With this, India joins the league of Europe, the US, Australia and NewZealand in selling dairy products through the international auction route, whereprices are at record high. Amul will begin competing with international dairybrands like Europe’s Arla, US-based Dairy America and Australia's MurrayGoulburn and New Zealand’s Fonterra, which owns GDT, to sell through theauction route. GDT is an auction platform for internationally-traded commoditydairy products. It has become the leading price reference indicator for theproducts traded.MAXCARE finds a newdestinationMAXCARE MARKETING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES, an established ISO 9001:2008 organisation and a renowned Exporter of Milk Processing Plants, hasexported a Turn Key Liquid Milk Processing plant to a client in Iraq. ThePlant is capable of producing by products like Butter, Paneer and Dahi,besides Pasteurized Milk in pouches. MAXCARE is managed by Mr. K.L.ARORA, a Member of Central Executive Committee of IDA and SecretaryIDA (North Zone). MAXCARE has already exported 3 Liquid Milk ProcessingPlants on Turn Key basis, through FAO of United Nations at different locationsof Afghanistan; a Turn Key project of 10,000 Ltrs./day capacity to Sri Lanka,besides 9 Animal Feed Plants, also through FAO, to Afghanistan. All theUnits in Afghanistan are run and managed by the Afghan farmers on cooperativepattern for the past several years, which has changed their livelihoodand the Dairy scenario.Mr. Arora and MAXCARE deserve compliments and congratulationsfor the same.MAY 2013IDF WORLD DAIRY SUMMIT28 Oct – 1 Nov 2013Yokohama, JapanThe IDF World Dairy Summit isthe world’s primary leading edgedairy event – the most importantgathering of and for dairyspecialists and decision-makers inall dairy related fields.For more information, please getin touch with Nico van Belzen atnvanbelzen@fil-idf.orgwww.wds2013.comANIMAL & DAIRYTECHASIA 20139 th - 11 th Sept. 2013Gandhinagar, GujaratAnimal & Dairytech Asia is aconcurrent event of Agritech Asia2013. Key features: Asia's primeexhibition on Animal Husbandry,Dairy and Agriculture.Visit: www.radeecal.inFOODPRO 201330 th Aug. - 1 st Sept., 2013Chennai Trade Centre, ChennaiCII is organizing the 10 th Foodproin Chennai. Highlights of theevents are: 3 Day Exhibition;One-day Industry Conference onFood Processing and Technology;Seminar & Workshop onTechnology, Food Safety &Hygiene and B2B Meetings, etcContact: Website: www.foodpro.inTHE AFRICAN LIVESTOCKCONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION26-28 June, 2013Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, KenyaThe Kenya Livestock ProducersAssociation (KLPA), the EastAfrica Farmers Federation (EAFF)and the Eastern and SouthernAfrica Dairy Association (ESADA)are organizing the event (ALICE2013). The theme of the event is‘Towards a Competitive andSustainable World-class LivestockSector’.Contact: Peter M. NgaruiyaWeb: www.livestockafrica.comINDIAN DAIRYMANC A L E N D A R29

30bulletinLaunch of Sakthi SMPPROF. K.V. THOMAS, Hon'ble Minister for Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution, Govt. of India launched SakthiSkimmed Milk Powder on Feb. 1, 2013 at Kochi in the presenceof Mayor Mr. Tomy Chammani and Ms. Soumini Jain,Chairperson (Works), Kochi Corporation. The Company sellsSMP in bulk and retail packs.The Dairy Division of ABT Industries Ltd. — a memberof Sakthi Group of Companies, Coimbatore, was started in 1994with the core vision to develop the rural economy and add valueto the dairy produce of the local villages. Today the division hasgrown multi fold with its procurement and marketing operations increasing consistently over the period. It has amodernised semi-automatic dairy plant of 4.00 LLPD capacity and a Powder Plant of 15 MTPD capacity located atPollachi near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. The milk and milk products are marketed under the brand name SAKTHI.The dairy is an ISO 22000:2005 certified plant.Banas Dairy bags AwardTHE RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL Quality Award has been bestowed onBanas Dairy in the Large Scale Manufacturing Industry Food & Drugcategory for the second time. Banas Dairy's remarkable growth in thelast 22 years includes achieving numerous milestones under theleadership of Honourable Chairman Shri Parthibhai G. Bhatol. For thepast three consecutive years the Dairy has ranked first in Asia in thefield of milk procurement.Regarding production and quality, Banas Dairy has received 14National Productivity Awards, the DL Shah National Quality Awardand the 5-S Gold Award. The Dairy is a proud recipient of the RajivGandhi National Quality Awards in Large Scale Manufacturing Industry Food & Drug category for the year 2011.The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards are given each year by the Bureau of Indian Standards with a view toencouraging Indian manufacturing and service organizations to strive for excellence and giving special recognition tothe leaders of quality movement in India.The Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and President of BIS Prof. K.V.Thomas conferred the prestigious award to Shri Parthibhai G. Bhatol on 26th April, 2013 at New Delhi.Milk fortification at NDRIDAIRY SCIENTISTS AT NDRI have successfully developed a technologyfor fortifying milk with multiple micro-nutrients. According to Dr.A.K. Srivastava, Director, NDRI, “micronutrient deficiencies, suchas zinc, folic acid, calcium, and Vitamin D are prevalent in Indiaand have devastating impacts on the health and the productivity ofthe population.”Two variants of milk were formulated, one contained iron incombination with vitamin A and the second variant was fortifiedwith calcium and vitamin D. A 250 ml serving of the iron and vitamin A fortified milk will provide 30-35 per cent ofiron and vitamin A requirement on daily basis, he added. Similarly, a 250 ml serving of the calcium and vitamin Dfortified milk will provide 40- 45 per cent of calcium and vitamin D requirement on daily basis.INDIAN DAIRYMAN MAY 2013

Expansion Project at Vidya Dairy, AnandVIDYA DAIRY, AN innovativeand need based institution,was established with theobjective of impartingexperiential learning tostudents in milk processingand milk productmanufacturing. Training isnow being imparted formanufacture of fermenteddairy products as well. In this regard a project on “Settingup Fermented Product Lines with Cold Storage at DairyPlant” has been sanctioned under the Rashtriya KrishiVikas Yojana (RKVY) to procure related equipments.Targeted at developing confidence amongst studentsfor manufacture of fermented milk products, Product andMAY 2013Process Development, thetraining would help themcompete with global dairytechnology graduates.Frozen Yoghurt Dahi &Probiotic Lassi would beproduced in the state-ofthe-artplant at VidyaDairy.Bhoomi Pujan of theexpansion project was graced by Shri R.S. Sodhi,Managing Director, GCMMF, Shri Sangram Chaudhry,Executive Direcor, National Dairy Development Board,Shri K.B. Kathiria, Director Research, Anand AgriculturalUniversity and Dr. B.P. Shah, Chairman, Vidya Dairyon 12 th March, 2013.NZ drought a boon for Indian dairiesA SEVERE DROUGHT in New Zealand,the leading global dairy player, isproving to be a boon for Indiandairies, especially co-operatives,which have witnessed a surge indemand for skimmed milk powderrecently.GCMMF's exports rose to4,000 tonnes since the Governmentlifted the ban on SMP in June lastyearThe Karnataka Milk Federationhas also exported about 5,000tonnes. Global skimmed milkpowder prices are hovering aroundTurnaround for Delhi Milk SchemeFOR THE FIRST TIME in many years, Delhi Milk Scheme(DMS) has made a surprise turnaround, showinga working surplus for the year 2012-2013. It isexpected to record an operational surplus of Rs8-9 crore in 2012-13.According to Sri B.S. Beniwal, GeneralManager, DMS, "In the last few years, we havemanaged to bring all round efficiency in DMS, asa result of which the losses have come down andthere is an operational surplus. We have also$3,800-4,000 a tonne with chancesof them increasing further.“India, which has ample milkpowder stocks, can continueexporting about 10,000 tonnes amonth for the next few months,”said R.S. Sodhi, Managing Director,GCMMF. Since June last year, thetotal exports from the country areestimated at over 60,000 tonnes inthe just-ended fiscal. These exportsare largely destined to the milkdeficientSouth Asian countriessuch as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka andPakistan.managed to avail all the tax deductions and rebatesavailable to DMS from the government agencies,strengthened the milk procurement system andimproved the overall work culture in the scheme."DMS has milk production and packagingcapacity of 0.5 million litres per day, besides anetwork of 1,298 outlets in the National CapitalRegion (NCR). The government-owned dairy unithas 800 employees – however, the milk productionis only about 0.27 million litres per day.INDIAN DAIRYMAN31

ulletinMilk yielding cows to be insuredin HaryanaIN A BID TO prevent smuggling and killing of cows, Haryana CM Bhupinder SinghHooda announced insurance for all milk yielding cows. He informed that the stategovernment would pay the full premium of the insurance and added that the policetask forces would be constituted for this purpose in all the villages. Hooda urgedpeople to come forward for the protection of stray cows and said that such cowsshould be taken to the cow shelters.Bihar’s 1 st CheesePlant in Dehri on SoneBIHAR CHIEF MINISTER Nitish Kumarinaugurated the state’s premier cheeseplant in Dehri-on-Sone, a city in Rohtasdistrict recently. He also laid thefoundation stone of a processing unithaving the capacity to produce 30 tonneof milk powder and a dairy plant with acapacity of five lakh litres. It isestimated that the inaugurated plant willmanufacture approximately one milliontonnes of cheese, two million tonnes ofpaneer, 1.6 million tonnes of pedas, sixmillion tonnes of mishti doi and lassi, and 5,000 bottles of flavoured milk per day.The project will not only to facilitate the utilisation of surplus milk, but also provide employment (and anadditional income) to farmers from the area. As of now, the Bihar State Milk Cooperative Federation Ltd(COMFED) has invested approximately ` 20, 45, 11, 396.60 in the project.Digital Krishi Card in GoaGOA GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED a digital Krishi Card in April2013 which would help farmers in making use of benefitssuch as subsidies and loans given by the StateGovernment.The Digital Krishi card launched by Chief MinisterShri Manohar Parrikar is based on the database createdby the State Agriculture Department. The introductionof the digitally coded card is a landmark and is going tospare farmers from the need of repeatedly producingdocuments to gain subsidies.The next major initiative of the Government ofGoa will be introduction of similar cards for fishermenand dairy farmers.32INDIAN DAIRYMAN MAY 2013

Everest Innovation AwardedEVEREST INSTRUMENTS PVT. Ltd. is a leading dairy and milk technologyinnovator offering total system solutions. Its superior technology basedMilk Collection Systems help businesses in the dairy industry and milkcooperatives to enhance their produce and achieve efficient operations.The Company has been awarded Best MSME for Manufacturingof Automatic Milk Collection System in the State of Gujarat, India –for the year 2011 in Vibrant Gujarat 2013 from the Industries Minister ofGujarat, Shri Saurabh Patel.Some of Everest’s popular products include DPU based MilkAutomation Collection System, Milk Analyzers, Milk Collectors, MilkTesters, Food Testers, Alcohol & Brewery Testers, Hygiene Testers and Weighing Scales.INTERNATIONALnewsCows that Produce 100 kg Milk a Day!GIVEN THE CURRENT economic scenario, biggerherds and more intensive farm managementcharacterize the dairy industry in South Africatoday. Challenges like breeding cows that wouldsurvive in the warm South African climate andhave a very high production are being met throughthe right breeding selection and careful herdmanagement.Johannes Loubser of Welgegund, some40km north of Cape Town, farms with a Holsteinherd that produces milk for his own dairy productbrand, Fair Cape, and local retailer, Woolworths.In his farm 1,500 cows are housed in four hugecow sheds with free-loaf areas enabling the farmto be classified as a free-range dairy. Part of themanagement strategy to encourage cows toperform optimally includes beds for comfort and fans and water sprayers to cool them down. Cows are milked threetimes a day. An electronic management system keeps tabs on which cows are in the high producer group (more than50 litres a day) or middle (40-50 litre) or lower lactation group (30-40 litre). Cows producing less than 30 litres a dayare subsequently dried off.According to Johannes “Dutch genetics have proven itself in this herd to produce strong cows with capacityand longevity. They give more milk and have the capacity for high production.” Late last year one such “almostperfect” cow, the Delta Olympic daughter, 6322, produced 107,8 litres of milk at her peak in her fourth lactation.The feed ration is designed to help the herd achieve their genetic potential. Cows are fed a total mixed ration(TMR) ad lib and with the help of the electronic cow identification and management system, each cow receives anindividual concentrate feed ration in the milking parlour. The concentrate ration varies according to the productionlevel, stage of lactation and needs of the cow, but the basic ingredients include soya concentrate, high proteinconcentrate, maize meal and fish meal.This is definitely one story where Indian dairy farmers and breeders can draw upon, given the almost similarclimatic conditions that exist in our country!MAY 2013INDIAN DAIRYMAN33