Amul to take a position Rs 600 crore to arrange dairy facility with world’s largest curd plant in Kolkata – India TV
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Advertising Federation Ltd (GCMMF), which sells dairy merchandise beneath the ‘Amul’ model, will make investments Rs 600 crore to arrange an built-in plant in West Bengal’s Kolkata, which can even host the world’s largest curd (dahi) manufacturing facility, its MD Jayen Mehta stated.
GCMMF dedicated to creating this funding through the two-day Bengal International Enterprise Summit (BGBS), which concluded on Thursday (February 6).
“We shall be organising an built-in dairy plant in Kolkata, West Bengal. The brand new facility can have the world’s largest curd manufacturing plant with a capability of 10 lakh kg per day,” Mehta advised media.
He stated the whole funding on this dairy plant shall be Rs 600 crore. The whole milk processing capability shall be 15 lakh litres per day. Mehta stated there’s a large demand for curd in Kolkata and its surrounding areas.
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The GCMMF dealt with 310 lakh litre of milk per day on common over the past fiscal. It has a complete annual milk processing capability of round 500 lakh litres. GCMMF is the world’s largest farmer-owned dairy cooperative having 36 lakh farmers throughout 18,600 villages of Gujarat and its 18 member unions procure 300 lakh litres of milk per day.
It additionally ranks eighth among the many high 20 dairy corporations on this planet by way of milk processing, as per the Worldwide Farm Comparability Community (IFCN). Apart from the home market, GCMMF is exporting dairy merchandise to about 50 international locations. GCMMF has entered the US market with the launch of 4 variants of contemporary milk to cater to the Indian diaspora and Asian inhabitants.
