India is likely to have the highest per-capita income growth in the world at 5.4 per cent per annum during 2024-33, allowing it and other emerging economies to drive global consumption of agricultural and fisheries products in the next decade, according to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and

Chandigarh, July 17, 2024: Punjab Animal Husbandry Department is geared up to conduct the 21st Livestock Census in the state from September onwards, informed Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Minister S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian. Chairing a state-level meeting to review the ongoing projects of the department here at Kisan Bhawan, on Wednesday, Gurmeet Singh

Kochi: Gulf countries are currently showing an increasing preference for milk products. During the last financial year, a large amount of milk products were exported to Gulf nations through various airports and ports in Kerala, with the UAE leading the imports. In the past financial year, UAE imported 1,316.47 tonnes of milk products via Kerala,

The Himachal Pradesh government allocated Rs 201 crores for the Dhagwar milk processing plant in Kangra district whose construction is scheduled to begin soon, according to a press release. Dhagwar milk processing plant is expected to boost the economic activities of the Kangra, Hamirpur, Chamba and Una districts. This milk plant will be fully automatic

Heritage Foods, the second largest private dairy company in India, is entering West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand at the same time with its four long-shelf life milk variants and value-added products as the company believes Eastern India is one of the fastest growing dairy markets in the country. The company is launching long-shelf life milk,

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has announced an agri fund for Start-Ups & Rural Enterprises (Agri-SURE), with initial corpus of ₹750 crore to be managed by its wholly owned subsidiary Nabventures. While NABARD and the Ministry of Agriculture are contributing ₹250 crore each, the rest ₹250 crore is from other institutions. The fund

Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre has set a target to have a co-operative bank and a milk producers’ union in each district of the country and also establish in the next five years multipurpose primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) in two lakh panchayats that have no cooperative institution. Addressing the

The US has asked India to delay by six months the requirement of a health certificate accompanied with imported food consignment of milk, pork and fish. At the World Trade Organization (WTO) last week, Washington also suggested that the certificate requirement be deferred till the two sides can reach a mutually agreed solution. The EU,

Vadodara: In the wake of the fake ghee making factories that are busted every year, India’s dairy sector has demanded a reduction in goods and services tax (GST) on ghee which currently attracts 12% tax. Representations from dairy sectorplayers to the Central govt state that ironically imported palm oil, which is chemically hydrogenated, attracts just