6 May 2024
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CIRC’s ₹800cr project to boost milk sector gets fresh lease of live

CIRC’s ₹800cr project to boost milk sector gets fresh lease of live

Six years after Meerut-based Central Institute of Research on Cattle (CIRC) lost huge land banks in 30 military farms across the country, thus derailing the ambitious programme aimed at revolutionising the milk sector, the institute will now get a 150-acre landbank in Babugarh (in Hapur) cantonment to salvage its ambitious Frieswal project. It took over three decades to develop it for around Rs 800 crore.

Production costs increase for milk

Production costs increase for milk

The Commerce Ministry is expected to consider and approve an increase in boxed milk prices if producers submit their requests for an adjustment, in line with higher raw milk production costs.