National Dairy Development Board

Amul stirs up storm in teacup, says milk not tea should be national drink

VADODARA: Your morning cup of tea would not fire up your sleepy senses without a little milk in it, and yet a debate has been stirred up on what should be India's national drink - tea or milk.

On Saturday, deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia announced in Jorhat, the tea capital of India, that tea will be given that place of pride by April next year.

Publication Date:

23/04/2012

Source: Times Of India (Ahmedabad)

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Planning Commission, Tea, Milk, Energy Drinks, Anand (D), National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Milk Products, Food Policy, Gujarat

Food Policy

‘Mission Milk’ launched from Anand

Anand: The first phase of National Dairy Plan (NDP), the ambitious scheme to double India’s milk production, was launched at the headquarters of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in the country’s milk capital here on Thursday.

Launched as ‘Mission Milk’, NDP proposes to usher in country’s second White Revolution. Since 1998, India has already emerged as world’s largest milk producer.

Publication Date:

20/04/2012

Source: Times Of India (Ahmedabad)

Tags:

Anand (D), Dairy Development, Milk, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Ministry Of Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, World Bank, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Milk Products, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Food Policy, Gujarat

Animal Care

Pawar to launch National Dairy Plan on Thursday

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is all set to roll out its ambitious, 15-year-long National Dairy Plan, envisaging an outlay of Rs 17,300 crore, with the Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, launching its first phase here on April 19. The Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, will be the chief guest at the ceremony to be held at the NDDB headquarters. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industry, Dr Charan Das Mahant, will also be present, an NDDB official said here on Tuesday.

Publication Date:

18/04/2012

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Dairy Development, Animal Care, Ministry Of Agriculture, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Ministry of Food Processing Industries, World Bank, India

Economy

Jairam seeks help from corporates

The Union rural development ministry is setting up a body called “Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation’ (BRLF) with a `1,000-crore corpus with the help of India Inc, to promote economic and social empowerment in 170 districts, including those affected by Naxal violence.

“I have already written to the Tatas, Reliance, Infosys, and Wipro, apart from the dairy cooperative NDDB, and Nabard, to be the founding members of BRLF. My ministry is giving initial corpus of `500 crore,” Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said here on Sunday.

Publication Date:

16/04/2012

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

Tags:

Ministry Of Rural Development, Naxalites, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Tribals, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Economy

Animal Care

$352-million World Bank credit for National Dairy Support Project

Kozhikode: The World Bank has approved a $ 352-million credit for the National Dairy Support Project. The project will cover over 40,000 villages across 14 major dairying states in the country, benefitting an estimated 1.7 million rural households. The States included in the project, such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, account for more than 90 per cent of the national milk production, according to a World Bank report.

Publication Date:

19/03/2012

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Animal Care, Cattle, Dairy Development, Kozhikode (D), National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Milk, World Bank