INDIA DAIRY GROUP PLOTS MAJOR PRODUCTION CENTRE NEAR DELHI

India’s Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union, a member of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation that own the popular Amul brand, is setting up a new milk processing unit near the capital New Delhi to meet the growing regional demand. “We are building one million litres per day capacity unit in Faridabad (Haryana) and it will be ready by middle of 2015,” Mr Parthi Bhatol, chairman of the Banaskantha union told just-food. Utilising USD48.2 million in investment, it would be the first Banaskantha plant outside Gujarat, he explained. ...


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