TAD News Desk, New Delhi: National Development Dairy Board headquartered at Anand is to manage and build three new dairy plants in Jharkhand on a turn-key basis.
NDDB would set up these plants in Sarath (Deoghar), Sahebganj and, Palemu as was the request by Jharkhand government.
Construction of two more dairy plants with daily capacities of production up to 50,000 litres per day in Jamshedpur and Giridh are in the discussion phase. These two plants could expand their production up to 100,000 litres per day.
Next year by March, June and, September these plants at Sarath, Sahebganj and, Palemu would be constructed at total cost of 90crores. These plants would have a capacity of 50 thousand litres per day and, expandable up to 100 thousand litres per day.
A report published in TOI records that after the establishment of these three dairy plants, Jharkhand state would reach daily milk production of five lakh litres per day which would be a feat achieved by Jharkhand Milk Federation by 2024.
Jharkhand milk federation has four dairy plants at present, situated in Ranchi, Deoghar, Koderma and Latehr. The total production capacity of JMF as of now is 140 thousand litres per day. It also has one cattle feed plant at Hotwar, Ranchi.
In 15 districts of Jharkhand – Ranchi, Ramgarh, Lohardaga, Khunti, Hazaribag, Koderma, Giridih, Deoghar, Dhanbad, Palamau, Garhwa, Chatra, Latehar, Bokaro and Godda – JMF has its operation base. Since, 2014 the workings of JMF has been transferred to NDDB.
NDDB would be managing JMF till 2024, as the cabinet has approved MoU between JMF and NDDB, recently. In the financial year 2019-20, the total milk production rate was at 117.52 TLPD and sales were around 102.99 TLPD.
Source – The Dairy Times
