National Dairy Development Board team inspects functioning of the dairy
The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) authorities were all praise for the Karimnagar district milk producer company (Karimnagar Dairy) for launching several welfare schemes for the milk producers and also taking measures for increasing the milk production.
The eight-member NDDB team led by S.K. Dalaal is on a three-day tour of the district to inspect the functioning of the dairy activities, procurement of milk from villages, welfare schemes and other expansion programmes.
The NDDB team toured the villages on Thursday and on Friday and had meeting with the Karimnagar Dairy authorities, including chairman Ch. Rajeshwara Rao and managing director V. Hanumantha Reddy.
The NDDB authorities said that Karimnagar Dairy was doing well and there was a lot of scope for the expansion of its activities to meet the demand in the future.
The authorities said that they were also planning for the inclusion of Karimnagar Dairy in the National Dairy Plan to provide funds for the increasing the milk production, sources said.
The Karimnagar Dairy authorities explained to the NDDB team about the growth of the dairy over the last one decade with the farmer-friendly policies and increase of milk production and sales.
The NDDB authorities complimented the Karimnagar Dairy authorities for launching the ‘Paalanidhi’, a social security pension scheme to the milk producers, which was not existing in any dairy of Andhra Pradesh state.
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source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Staff Reporter / Karimnagar, April 27th, 2013