Dairy India 2007
Volume 20, Number 1 Article by Vinod K Huria March, 2008
Dairy India 2007 : Edited by Sharad Gupta, Dairy India Yearbook Publications, 2007, pp xxiv+840, Price Rs 4500. :
It is well known that India is the world’s largest milk producer. In 2006-2007, it celebrated reaching the magical figure of 100 million tonnes (mt). Since the inception of the Operation Flood programme (1971-1996) by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Anand, the average annual growth rate of milk production has been over 5 percent. In 2005, the size of India’s dairy sector was estimated at Rs 2300 billion, with a production of 95 mt. Dairy India 2007 estimates that by 2011 the value of the dairy industry will more than double, reaching Rs 5200 billion, with annual milk production estimated at 120 million tonnes.
Operation Flood modernised the dairy sector of India by organising the infrastructure for milk procurement, processing and marketing. The ensuring of remunerative prices to milk producers and the organisation of an efficient supply chain management system had a snowballing impact on milk production. Operation Flood also gave stimulus to continuously develop and upgrade dairy processing technology, which formed the basis of a high-tech dairy industry. The impact was phenomenal. The organised dairy sector initially launched many western products: baby food, milk powders of various grades, butter, cheese, ice-cream and packaged liquid milk. Later branded mithais were also included in the product profile of cooperative dairies like Amul, Sugam and others. While this innovation process was on, dairy technologists worked on developing process technologies for the mechanisation and large-scale manufacture of traditional Indian milk products (TIMP). At several institutions including NDDB Anand, NDRI Karnal, CFTRI Mysore etc, a number of processes were developed and pilot plants were erected for scale-up, which helped in establishing commercial scale process technologies for the manufacture of Indian milk delicacies and instant mixes.
Dairy India 2007, the sixth edition of Dairy India, has a lead paper by the former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who shares his vision on the contribution of agriculture, food and the processing industry. A commentary on the current dairy scenario by Dr V Kurien, the father of the white revolution who brought India on the world dairy map, and a tribute to P R Gupta, who founded the Dairy India Publications Group in 1983 to chronicle information about the dairy industry, are other noteworthy papers. This edition covers a range of topics, including trends in consumption and market size of milk and milk products, WTO challenges and export potential, management of dairy plants and farms, health care, clean milk production, food safety and quality standards. In addition, there is a special section devoted to technological innovations and organised production of TIMP (paneer, gulab jamun, rassogolla, shrikhand, etc), a potentially lucrative segment ignored so far by the industry. In response to the unprecedented developments in Asian countries, a special section titled ‘Dairy Asia’, researched and edited by the eminent expert Dr R S Khanna, has been introduced in this edition.
For the entrepreneur, this book provides essential information on companies, Indian milk products manufacturers, dairy plants, veterinary and pharmaceutical organisations, government organisations, equipment manufacturers and consultants. The book has six sections: Survey, Dairy Asia, Management, Research & Reference, Directory and Who’s Who. Aspects such as food safety regulations, analytical tests, labelling information, quality systems, and sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) requirements have been well documented to help entrepreneurs understand the intricacies of manufacturing milk products for the global market using world class technology.
A treasure trove of information, this 864-page publication offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date picture about the world’s numero uno dairying nation. It presents an in-depth profile of the emerging dairy situation by identifying new trends, market opportunities and investment prospects, and expounding new insights, analyses and ideas. Dairy India is a databank-cum-guide-cum-directory, which contains over 120 in-depth articles, and 260 statistical tables and charts. The directory section lists 7000 organisations including dairy plants and farms, equipment and consumable manufacturers, cattle feed and veterinary pharmaceutical manufacturers, chemicals and food additives, project consultants, breeding and fodder-seed farms, analytical and disease-diagnostic laboratories, cooperative institutions and government agencies.
Globalisation has set in motion changes that have dramatically altered the perceptions of food by consumers. The quest for new exotic foods is driving food technologists today, and Dairy India 2007 provides answers to many of their questions. It is an indispensable compendium that will be an asset to individuals, professionals and scientists associated with the dairy industry in particular, and the food industry in general. They will greatly benefit from the enormous technical and economic information, which combines the wisdom of the past with the scientific knowledge base of today.
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