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Visit to AMUL- dairy co-operative, Gujarat. Thanammal and team. Participants . CHIRAG Bhuwan Pant Lalit Tiwari Lalit Mohan Tiwari Ramesh Joshi INHERE Shankar Devtalla Jegat Rawat. Field co-ordinators. Field facilitators. Field co-ordinators.
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Visit to AMUL- dairy co-operative, Gujarat Thanammal and team
Participants • CHIRAG • Bhuwan Pant • LalitTiwari • Lalit Mohan Tiwari • Ramesh Joshi • INHERE • Shankar Devtalla • JegatRawat Field co-ordinators Field facilitators Field co-ordinators
Ramesh Joshi, Shankar Devtalla, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Bhiuwanpant, LalitTiwari, JegatRawat
Schedule • 22/10/2013 • Visit to Mehsana Dairy co-operative- dairy plant • Visit to breeding station, Mehsana • Visit to feed plant, Mehsana • 23/10/2013 • Visit to Suryoday engineering company, Ahmedabad- for cream seperator • Local shops, Ahmedabad for packing machine sourcing • 24/10/2013 • Visit to AMUL (Kaira Dairy co-operative) • Visit to FES (Foundation for ecological security) and nearby village, Jahangirpur
Objectives of the visit • Staffs felt they heard lot about Gujarat dairy co-operative, they wanted to learn from visiting there • To see the co-operative principles and structure and organisation • Exposure to different options of feed management- chaff cutters, feed mangers, feed formulations etc • Exposure to different milk products and their feasibility in our project area • Sourcing for machines and tools related to dairy products • Exposure to system approach of dairy co-operative, Gujarat
Mehsana dairy plant • 25lakh litres of milk handled every day- Asias largest dairy co-operative • Visit to • Chilling and pasteurisation unit • Butter processing unit • Ghee processing unit • Milk powder processing unit • Quality control laboratory • Engineering department
Dairy plant- Mehsana Different products Amul diamond- new can keep this milk outside for 3 months Ghee processing tank
Jagudhan village society • 1800 to 2000 litres of milk every day and sent to dairy plant • Chilling unit for 200 litres of milk- purchased under NABARD scheme before 5 years- 60% subsidy • Evening milk stored in this chiller • 350 farmers • Input service- feed, insurance to animals and farmers, loan for purchase of animal, AI service etc. • Started with 20 litres of milk before 25 years • Quality based price- fat and SNF (using milk analyser)- max INR 42 for buffaloe milk, INR 25 for cow milk • More buffaloes in this area (Mehsani breed) with average milk production 10-15 ltrs/day
AMUL-Anand • Visit to dairy plant is not allowed • Only to systems exposure for 2 hrs- computerised demo • 17 lakhs litres of milk every day • Least support- for exposure- not help for village visit • Main tourist attraction
Visit to Jahangirpur village (Anand) through FES Simple cattle feed trough (left) Housing with good ventilation (right up) Feed storage (right down)
Sourcing- dairy machines- Ahmedabad Purchased Cream separator Sealing machine for packing milk
Feed back • Good to see the systematic approach of dairy co-operative • Many models of cattle feed trough, chaff cutter • Gave order for 20 chaff cutter- manual small one for demo in field here to get feedback from farmers (CHIRAG) • Procedure for dairy products processing and technologies • Had chance to see Asia biggest dairy co-operative • Will be trying to use some principles learned • Feeding management- cuttingf grass, concentrate feeding etc. • Mehsanibuffaloe is very good breed • Even though there is shortage of feed in Mehsana district- interesting to see how they manage the feeding- import wheat straw from neighbouring districts • If there is will there is a way • Will get some innovative farmers to visit Mehsana dairy co-operative (CHIRAG) next year
Useful links • Mehsana district dairy co-operative • http://dudhsagardairy.co.in/ • AMUL • http://www.amul.com/ • Dairy instruments • http://www.milkcreamseparator.com/profile.html