Strengthening India’s dairy sector is one of the top priorities of our government: PM
The Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of ‘Banas Dairy Sankul’ at the UP State Industrial Development Authority Food Park, Karkhiyaon, Varanasi.
Spread across 30 acres of land, the dairy will be built at a cost of about Rs 475 crore and will have a facility for processing 5 lakh litre of milk per day.
The PM also digitally transferred about Rs 35 crore bonus to the bank accounts of more than 1.7 lakh milk producers associated with Banas Dairy.
The foundation stone has also been laid for the Biogas based Electricity generation plant for the Milk Producers Cooperative Union Plant, Ramnagar, Varanasi.
The PM launched a Portal and Logo dedicated to the Conformity Assessment Scheme of milk products, developed by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) with the help of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
“The milk production in the country has increased by about 45 percent as compared to 6-7 years ago. Today India produces about 22 percent of the world’s milk. I am happy that today UP is not only the largest milk producing state in the country, it is also significantly ahead in the expansion of the dairy sector”, the Prime Minister said.