Chandigarh: Farmers from 110 villages of Samalkha and Gannaur participated in the Dairy Kisan Mela organised by Amrik Singh Cheema Foundation Trust at the Old Grain Market, Gannaur, on Monday.

Sri Lanka government is planning to introduce a new loan scheme to the farmers engaged in dairy industry throughout the country.

Mervyn Gunasena, the chairman of the Agrarian Insurance Board said the main goal of this decision is to develop the liquid milk industry and to raise the liquid milk production in the country.

EU subsidy may hurt the Indian dairy industry to shield its dairy industry from the pinch of global economic meltdown, the European Commission has decided to reinstate export subsidies on dairy products, which it suspended in 2007. The move may adversely impact India

New Delhi: The Delhi Government has extended for three months the ban on sale of Chinese dairy products, which contained high-level of kidney-stone causing chemical, in the national Capital. The products were banned in the country in September last year in the wake of the detection of high level of industrial chemical melamine that had affected thousands of children in China late last year.

AT A time when Australian commodity exports are collapsing under the impact of the global recession, India has provided some relief by opening up its market for branded dairy products from Down Under. With this, some of the big branded cheese products such as Bega and King Island will be able to enter the Indian market.

BEIJING

Chinese lawmakers passed new food-safety legislation meant to tighten supervision of manufacturers and impose tougher penalties on those who make bad products as the government seeks to restore public confidence after a spate of problems with tainted food.

SIVAGANGA: Dairy farming was the best way to boost rural economy and eradicate poverty, said Umesh Chandra Sarangi, Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Livestock Development Board (KLDB), a State Government undertaking, is starting a technical consultancy targeting grassroot level dairy farmers as well as prospective big investors in the State