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Controversial dairy farm in village of Nocton generated heavy opposition from local residents, animal w

Sixty private and cooperative dairies in Maharashtra have decided to increase the selling price of milk by 3/litre from February 16. The cow milk price will go up from 26/litre to 29/litre while the buffalo variety will go up from 33/litre to 36/litre. Amul, Mahanand and Gowardhan will take a call prices on Monday. Maharashtra dairies had raised milk prices by 1/litre only last month.

Constant efforts are being made to increase milk production in Bundelkhand by the MP State Cooperative Dairy Federation. So far, the federation has constituted 120 milk cooperatives in the region since July 2010. Three thousand 565 members of these cooperatives are collecting six thousand 124 litres of milk on an average daily. The members have collected 3 lakh 63 thousand litres of milk so far.

Anaerobic digestion offers a unique treatment option for the dairy industry. Not only does anaerobic digestion reduce the COD of an effluent, but little microbial biomass is produced.

Operation Flood was the world's largest and most ambitious dairy development programme in India. Did Operation Flood represent the creative use of European (and other) dairy surpluses undermine domestic production? (Letters)

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Prices of open milk being sold in the city are expected to rise as the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) proceeds with its plan to relocate dairies out of the city's municipal limits.
Despite protest from owners, a JMC squad on Monday captured and relocated several bovine animals from various parts of the city to the Hingoniya cow shelter.
With local dairies being moved out of the city, it is e

Kamadhenu Yojana has been chalked out for development of Gaushalas in all the 52 thousand villages of Madhya Pradesh under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

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