February 11, 2013

During the year 2012-13, India's Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation has doubled the milk handling capacity of its five plants from 4.70 lakh litres a day to 8.80 lakh litres a day.

This follows the average milk procurement in Haryana during the current financial year touching the mark of 3.64 lakh litres a day, an official said Friday (Feb 8).

Haryana Cooperation Minister Satpal Sangwan said that in the year 2011-12, the Federation had recorded sales turnover of INR940 crore (US$176 million) and net profit was INR2.76 lakh (US$5,151).

The tentative profit during the current financial year would be INR6 crore (US$1.1 million), he added. He said that the State Government has decided to set up another plant at Ujhana village in district Kaithal where a milk chilling centre is already in operation.

The other plants are located at Jind, Ambala, Ballabgarh, Rohtak, Sirsa. He said that while the milk plants of Rohtak, Ballabgarh, Ambala and Jind have obtained ISO-9002 and IS-15000 certificates, the remaining plants would also obtain ISO-9002 shortly.

Each plant has taken steps to implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points. He said that there was also a plan to provide Automatic Milk Collection Units and Milko Testers to all the societies in the next five years. This will help in maintaining good quality of milk.

Sangwan said that main objective of the federation is to promote economic interest of milk producers of Haryana, especially those belonging to economically weaker sections.