Visit to AMUL- dairy co-operative, Gujarat

Thanammal and team

Participants

• CHIRAG– Bhuwan Pant– Lalit Tiwari– Lalit Mohan Tiwari– Ramesh Joshi

• INHERE– Shankar Devtalla– Jegat Rawat

Field co-ordinators

Field facilitators

Field co-ordinators

Ramesh Joshi, Shankar Devtalla, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Bhiuwanpant, Lalit Tiwari, Jegat Rawat

Schedule• 22/10/2013

– Visit to Mehsana Dairy co-operative- dairy plant– Visit to breeding station, Mehsana– Visit to feed plant, Mehsana

• 23/10/2013– Visit to Suryoday engineering company, Ahmedabad- for cream seperator– Local shops, Ahmedabad for packing machine sourcing

• 24/10/2013– Visit to AMUL (Kaira Dairy co-operative)– Visit to FES (Foundation for ecological security) and nearby village,

Jahangirpur

Objectives of the visit• Staffs felt they heard lot about Gujarat dairy co-operative,

they wanted to learn from visiting there• To see the co-operative principles and structure and

organisation• Exposure to different options of feed management- chaff

cutters, feed mangers, feed formulations etc• Exposure to different milk products and their feasibility in

our project area• Sourcing for machines and tools related to dairy products• Exposure to system approach of dairy co-operative, Gujarat

Mehsana dairy plant

• 25lakh litres of milk handled every day- Asias largest dairy co-operative

• Visit to – Chilling and pasteurisation unit– Butter processing unit– Ghee processing unit– Milk powder processing unit– Quality control laboratory– Engineering department

Dairy plant- Mehsana

Different productsAmul diamond- new can keep this milk outside for 3 months

Ghee processing tank

Motorised chaff cutter- Mehsana breeding centre

Manual Chaff cutter- Hath suda

Mehsani buffaloe breed

Feed plant

Visit to Jegudhan village

Jagudhan village society• 1800 to 2000 litres of milk every day and sent to dairy plant• Chilling unit for 200 litres of milk- purchased under NABARD

scheme before 5 years- 60% subsidy• Evening milk stored in this chiller• 350 farmers• Input service- feed, insurance to animals and farmers, loan for

purchase of animal, AI service etc.• Started with 20 litres of milk before 25 years• Quality based price- fat and SNF (using milk analyser)- max INR 42

for buffaloe milk, INR 25 for cow milk• More buffaloes in this area (Mehsani breed) with average milk

production 10-15 ltrs/day

Visit to AMUL-Kaira district co-operative, Anand

AMUL-Anand

• Visit to dairy plant is not allowed• Only to systems exposure for 2 hrs-

computerised demo• 17 lakhs litres of milk every day• Least support- for exposure- not help for

village visit• Main tourist attraction

Visit to Jahangirpur village (Anand) through FES

Simple cattle feed trough (left)Housing with good ventilation (right up)Feed storage (right down)

Sourcing- dairy machines- Ahmedabad

Purchased Cream separator Sealing machine for packing milk

Feed back• Good to see the systematic approach of dairy co-operative• Many models of cattle feed trough, chaff cutter• Gave order for 20 chaff cutter- manual small one for demo in field

here to get feedback from farmers (CHIRAG)• Procedure for dairy products processing and technologies• Had chance to see Asia biggest dairy co-operative• Will be trying to use some principles learned• Feeding management- cuttingf grass, concentrate feeding etc.• Mehsani buffaloe is very good breed• Even though there is shortage of feed in Mehsana district- interesting

to see how they manage the feeding- import wheat straw from neighbouring districts

• If there is will there is a way• Will get some innovative farmers to visit Mehsana dairy co-operative

(CHIRAG) next year

Useful links

• Mehsana district dairy co-operative– http://dudhsagardairy.co.in/

• AMUL– http://www.amul.com/

• Dairy instruments– http://www.milkcreamseparator.com/profile.html