Hi, NewsWrap for March 28, 2023

28-March-2023: Bajra Lassi, India's 1st Cloned Desi Gir Female Calf- 'Ganga,' Alphonso Mango, Tamil Nadu, NDRI-Karnal

28 March 2023

  • Bajra Lassi: NDRI Launches a Milk-Pearl Millet Composite Based Beverage

    Himanshu Pathak, Secretary DARE & Director General Indian Council of Agricultural Research, launched "Bajra Lassi," a fermented milk-pearl millet composite beverage, at the National Dairy Research Institute's (NDRI) milk parlour on March 26. The product was developed by the Under-graduate (UG) students of the institute under Experiential Learning course. Pathak praised the hard works of the students & faculty of the institute in developing milk-millet composite based healthy products. "By developing the technology of such innovative products, we can provide an array of millet-based products to domestic as well as global consumers," Pathak said.

     

  • Amul to Launch New Fixed-Price Edible Oil Pack Amidst Rising Inflation

    Under the brand ‘Janmay’, the Amul marketer GCMMF sells six varieties of edible oils. According to the dairy major, this new initiative will make edible oil prices more realistic for consumers. Jayen Mehta, Managing Director, GCMMF said, “Normally, edible oil prices fluctuate every day, and generally, in retail packaging, there is a difference between the trade price and maximum retail price (MRP). Companies keep this difference to absorb any price variations. So, at any point, the consumers don’t know the right price of the edible oil and we are changing this keeping the retail price fixed.” With 650 ml of refined cottonseed oil, the newly launched pack comes at Rs 100.

     

  • Unseasonal Heatwave Causes Loss of Up To 75% Of Alphonso Mango Crop in Maharashtra

    The famous Alphonso orchards in the Maharashtra districts of Devgad and Ratnagiri have been affected by an unseasonal heatwave that affected the Konkan between February 25 and March 6. Farmers expect to lose up to three-fourths of the crop during its second ripening from mid-April to the end of May. Around 75% of the fruit’s production in the longer second phase of the harvest might have been lost due to the heatwave, they said, as flowers wilted and unripe mangoes fell to the ground. From the first ripening phase, when roughly 30% of the annual harvest hits the market around February, there is a total turnaround.

     

  • Tamil Nadu to Receive Significant Funding for Fisheries Sector from Centre

    Over the past five years, the Central government has approved project proposals to the tune of Rs 897.55 crores for the development of fisheries in Tamil Nadu, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala said on Monday. The Minister was answering an unstarred question raised by Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi NVN Somu on funds allocated for schemes in Tamil Nadu. Also, Rupala said the Centre’s share of Rs 252.74 crores for several schemes including the fishermen’s welfare activities was also released in the five years till 2021-22. In addition to this, Under the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund, fisheries infrastructural project proposals worth Rs 1,091.28 crores for providing concessional finance have also been approved for Tamil Nadu.

     

  • NDRI-Karnal Produces India's 1st Cloned Desi Gir Female Calf- 'Ganga'

    "India's first cloned Gir female calf named 'Ganga' weighing 32 kg was born and is developing well under a project by National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal to work on cloning of indigenous cow breeds such as Gir and Sahiwal," the NDRI said in a release. Indigenous cow breeds like Gir, Sahiwal, Tharparkar, and Red-Sindhi are critical to milk production and the expansion of the Indian dairy industry. "We cloned the calf from a Gir breed cow that was producing 15 litres of milk every day. We have started cloning the high-yield cows using the cloning process as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi's directives to boost milk supply," stated Dr Manmohan Singh Chauhan, Vice Chancellor of GB Pant Agricultural University.

     

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