Amul to replicate Gujarat model in AP

Amul is in the system of replicating its famed Gujarat cooperative dairy generation design in Andhra Pradesh. As it sets out to make AP a hub for its expansion to the Southern marketplaces and Odisha, dairy significant Amul will enable about 10,000 gals cooperatives construct a community of cow and buffalo milk generation centres.

 

The enterprise has entered into an agreement with the AP government to revive and improve cooperative dairies in the Point out. Andhra Pradesh, which generates four.three crore litres of milk a day, is the fourth major milk producer in the country.

Though the Point out government will enable in making the gals cooperatives and nearby processing models, Amul will enable them in achieving out the produce to customers. It will also manufacture price-added products.

The Point out government will expend ₹3,five hundred crore to provide high-quality breed cows and buffaloes to about four.69 lakh gals from the underprivileged sections. Amul will also procure milk from farmers in various districts. “Andhra Pradesh has the exceptional benefit of staying in the proximity with major Southern marketplaces of Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. It can also cater to the mostly untapped marketplace of Odisha,” Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing and advertising Federation’s Running Director, RS Sodhi, advised BusinessLine.

“We will use the locally obtainable processing capacities for now. We may well construct our personal processing models, if need to have be,” he mentioned.

Sodhi, along with major officers of Amul, was in Amaravathi on Wednesday to mark the launch of a pilot in 400 villages of Prakasam, Chittoor, and Kadapa districts. Andhra Pradesh’s Main Minister formally introduced the pilot on Wednesday.

Soon after the 6-thirty day period-very long pilot, the milk procurement will be expanded to other components of the Point out, with a assure to supply ₹5-seven a litre much more to the dairy farmers. Other than delivering them with high-quality milch animals, the Point out government will enable the gals cooperatives in the upkeep of the cattle.

Bulk milk cooling models (BMCUs) will be set up at the cooperatives that produce much more than two,000 litres a day.

The Gujarat team

Each district will have a core team with the District Collector performing as a Exclusive Officer (Amul Venture) and Joint Collectors and Joint Director (Animal Husbandry) as users.

“We will guarantee that payments are paid once in each and every 10 days. The gals cooperative users will also get a reward once or twice each and every yr from the revenue of the Amul undertaking,” mentioned Main Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy when launching the undertaking.