PUNJAB LAUNCHES DAIRY MANUFACTURING EXPANSION PLAN
May 1st, 2013
THE DEPUTY chief minister of India's Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal has approved setting up four new milk processing plants in the northerly and industrialised state at an investment of Indian rupees INR2.5 billion (USD 44 million). These would expand the state's cooperative milk federation Milkfed, with the aim of promoting its brand Verka. A Punjab government spokesman told just-food the exact location and capacity of the new plants had yet to be agreed. Mr Badal however, said that the expansion plan would “build an efficient vertically integrated production ...
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