Dairy enhance: Assam rolls out Rs 5 per litre milk subsidy; CM Himanta Biswa Sarma launches plant enlargement to assist rural economic system | India Information

To provide a contemporary enhance to Assam’s dairy sector, the state authorities on Sunday launched a brand new subsidy scheme providing Rs 5 per litre of milk to dairy farmers. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the initiative at a programme in Guwahati, the place he additionally laid the inspiration stone for increasing the Panjabari plant of West Assam Milk Producers’ Cooperative Union Ltd (WAMUL), which sells below the Purabi Dairy model.“Empowering our dairy farmers. At this time, we formally rolled out the subsidy scheme… which can now obtain Rs 5/litre subsidy for the milk they offer for processing at cooperative societies,” Sarma mentioned in a put up on X, including that the transfer would encourage greater manufacturing, enhance farmers’ earnings, and spark a rural dairy revolution.In line with officers quoted by information company PTI, over 20,000 dairy farmers throughout Assam are anticipated to profit from this subsidy scheme. The state sees this step as important to strengthen milk provide chains and improve financial alternatives in rural areas.On the identical occasion, Sarma carried out the ‘bhoomi pujan’ for a Rs 104 crore enlargement of the Purabi Dairy processing unit. The power, as soon as upgraded, will double its processing capability from 1.5 lakh litres per day (LLPD) to three LLPD. This challenge is a part of an MoU between WAMUL and the Nationwide Dairy Growth Board (NDDB), signed in the course of the Benefit Assam 2.0 Summit earlier this yr.Calling the enlargement “a vital step in direction of a self-reliant Assam within the dairy sector,” Sarma mentioned it will guarantee higher market entry for farmers and strengthen the state’s dietary safety.NDDB and WAMUL chairman Meenesh Shah mentioned the plant’s progress would assist a broader dairy community, enhance milk assortment, and attain extra shoppers within the area.The Panjabari facility is the biggest milk processing plant within the North East and performs a central position within the Assam Dairy Growth Plan (ADDP), which goals to course of 10 LLPD state-wide within the formal dairy sector.As a part of the enlargement, pasteurised pouch milk output will enhance from 1.15 LLPD to 2.0 LLPD. The power may even add a brand new ice cream manufacturing line of 20 thousand litres per day (TLPD), scalable to 30 TLPD, together with extra dairy merchandise totalling 70 TLPD.