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A big fat problem in milk: What’s driving up prices?

HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor , Indian Express

Indian Dairy Industry

The current price inflation in milk is mainly due to a shortage of fat. It has led dairies to hike full-cream milk prices or to cut fat content through rebranding of existing products. Also, milk does not attract GST, while fat and powder used in reconstitution does, an anomalous situation for which the consumer ultimately pays.

Vikram Doctor

Editor, Times of India

Indian Dairy Industry

No other country can boast such a diversity of milk sources, and the opportunities they represent, than India. As the West wakes up to their benefits, we need to tap into different animal sources that we have and our rich custom of plant-based milks

AJITA SHASHIDHAR

Editor, Fortune India

Indian Dairy Industry

New-age dairy firms are promising the discerning Indian consumer not just high-quality milk, but also an array of value-added products. But can they outsmart India’s famed milk cooperatives?

TARUN SHRIDHAR

Former Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, New Delhi

Indian Dairy Industry

Exercise choice, but shun activism- it hurts the farmer, it hurts the poor, it hurts nutritional security, and it hurts common sense. Let your choice be an INFORMED one, based on facts and science not merely on belief and sentiments. And please do allow the others too to exercise this right of choice, especially the overwhelming numbers who like, and are conditioned to begin, and maybe even end, their day with a glass of milk; curd, paneer, ice cream et.al. served their way during the day. And please do understand, against the backdrop of widely prevailing hunger and malnutrition, very few are able to even exercise a choice of food, leave aside the dream of emulating food elitism such as veganism. You believe in it, go ahead but don’t impose it. Now let us get some facts straight.

TARUN SHRIDHAR & SHARAD GUPTA

(Left) Former Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, New Delhi, & (Right) Editor & Publisher, Dairy India Yearbook, New Delhi & Co-Founder, www.IndiaDairy.com

Indian Dairy Industry

As we begin the celebrations commemorating Dr Verghese Kurien’s Birth Centenary Year, let us pause for a moment to look at the significant achievements, the challenges and opportunities ahead in our dairy sector and what Dr Kurien might advise us to do.

SHARAD GUPTA

Editor & Publisher, Dairy India Yearbook, New Delhi, & Co-Founder, www.IndiaDairy.com

Indian Dairy Industry

The Indian dairy sector has been registering a consistent annual growth of over 6 percent for the last several years. We account for some 22 percent of the global milk production with each year seeing India add more milk to the global pool than the entire European community. For a nation, which is still to shed the tag of being a developing entity despite its enormous size, it is no mean achievement to be sitting atop the world in this most critical food and livelihood sector. Further, this position is not likely to be challenged in either the near or distant future.

TARUN SHRIDHAR

Former Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, New Delhi

Indian Dairy Industry

A global giant in production, yet a dwarf in productivity; this is what aptly defines Indian dairy. At a milk production of 188 million metric tonnes (mmt) during 2019, we are the world leader by several miles. The second placed United States of America recorded only half of this quantity at 98.72 million metric tonnes during this period.

TARUN SHRIDHAR & SHARAD GUPTA

Indian Dairy Industry

Today, the White Revolution’s contribution to farm incomes surpasses that of the Green Revolution. Every fifth rupee generated in the farm sector — which includes the total output value of crops, livestock produce, and fisheries — comes from milk.

TARUN SHRIDHAR & SHARAD GUPTA

Indian Dairy Industry

Almost half of India’s milk, with higher solids, comes from buffaloes. Yet, this low-maintenance and efficient feed-converting animal finds little place in our dairy and livestock policy.

TARUN SHRIDHAR & SHARAD GUPTA

Indian Dairy Industry

It was this energy that was unleashed when Dr Verghese Kurien along with Shri Tribhuvandas Patel, embarked upon the journey of organising scores of small farmers who had been marginalised in the social and economic realm. The inspiring leadership of Patel and professional commitment of Dr Kurien was first manifested when the small Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union, often known as Amul Dairy which had begun its journey with just two village dairy cooperative societies and 247 litres of milk in 1946 was entrusted to Dr Kurien in 1950. Miraculously, this small unknown entity started growing from strength to strength; a growth which has been consistently on the rise over the past seven decades. This 247-litre milk dairy is now a globally respected brand, owned not by any corporate bigwigs or a conglomerate of landlords but by millions of farmers who individually would be too small to matter even in their own societies but their collective cooperative strength invites grudging respect from the biggest of global dairy giants.

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