Government measures to bring down the cost of dairy products will include introducing imports gradually from 2012 and lowering the target price. The three dairy manufacturers responded Thursday to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s industry reforms by committing to lowering prices, but they would not say by how much. “When the new target price comes into [...]
UHT Milk currently accounts for less than 1% of the total liquid milk market in India. The product’s high shelf life and convenience, however, has been driving this market exponentially in the last few years. IMARC Group, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms, expects the Indian UHT Milk Market to more than [...]
Livestock feed suppliers say they aren’t responsible for high prices but rather tax and the port fees. By Ora Coren Livestock feed suppliers took umbrage Monday over the state’s accusation that they are first link in the chain lifting dairy prices, saying the state itself is the culprit. Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon had complained that [...]
Minister Moshe Ya’alon spoke out against importing dairy products in a bid to lower local dairy product prices. At a Ministerial forum meeting on the issue he said: “It’s a big mistake to attack the farmers. Before touching them the big companies and large supermarket chains need to be handled – going as far as [...]
PATNA: Bihar, which until recently was dependent on milk supply from Punjab and Andhra Pradesh to meet its domestic consumption, is turning out to be a frontline state in milk production. From a low average milk procurement of 281.81 thousand litre per day in 1999-2000, the state is now obtaining nearly 14 lakh litre per [...]
Steady and steep increase in the cost of money is pushing the country’s industrial sector into a high-cost regime, slowing down credit growth, new capacity creation and creating a structural slowdown, writes Dilip Maitra In a country where half of its population is living below the poverty line and an average adult earns below Rs [...]
Finance Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz spoke this afternoon (Wednesday) at the University of Ariel. His speech was disrupted by two people speaking out against him with a megaphone. The two were detained by the police for interrogation. In his speech he said that the price regulation over dairy products will not be removed. Furthermore, he [...]
The Tere Dairy Industry is hoping to export its products to Arabic countries, to Asia and Latin America, selling powder products made in Põlva, writes LETA/National Broadcasting. Thus far the dairy powders have been exported to Egypt, Thailand and to South Korea. At the end of June, Tere will prepare its first batch to be [...]
By April Dávila in Life As a Human In January of this year, while procrastinating on Facebook, I followed a link to an article reporting on evidence that there may be health effects associated with consuming Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn. Clicking on that link was one of those moments on which I look back [...]
The Department of Special Investigation has recommended the indictment of three men suspected of corruption related to school milk programmes in four districts of Chiang Mai. The DSI yesterday forwarded the case to the Office of the Attorney-General. It recommended the indictment of the owner of school milk distributor Chiangmai Sophonpanich Co, Sophon Jaijan, and [...]
By Jin Jianyu The allegations regarding the safety of infant powdered milk produced by the Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group have proved to be without foundation – and are said to have been publicized by rival dairy group Mengniu, the Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday. According to the report, Mengniu’s director in charge of infant [...]
By Paul McBeth Oct. 20 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group will spend $42 million on a new dairy farm in China as it looks to build its presence in the world’s most populous nation. The world’s biggest dairy exporter and the Yutian County Government formally agreed to develop a new farm in the Hebei province, [...]