Brig (Retd) Dr BD Mishra, Lieutenant Governor, Union Territory of Ladakh, today, inaugurated the newly refurbished dairy plant of Ladakh Dairy Cooperative Federation in the presence of Dr Meenesh Shah, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB); Dr Pawan Kotwal, Advisor to Lt Governor and other officials. Indian Dairy Machinery Company Limited (IDMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of NDDB has refurbished the dairy plant.
The Lieutenant Governor praised NDDB for steering dairy development activities in less dairy-developed Ladakh. He said that an integrated approach involving the creation of an organised milk procurement, processing and marketing system will strengthen dairying and augment rural incomes.
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Speaking at the occasion, Chairman of NDDB said that NDDB had entered into a tripartite MoU with the Union Territory of Ladakh and the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) for providing managerial and technical support to the Ladakh Dairy Cooperative Federation for a period of five years. The MoU focused on increasing market access and ensuring sustainability and economic viability of the Federation’s overall operations. NDDB-administered Ladakh Dairy Federation will work towards establishing a transparent and remunerative milk procurement system for dairy farmers.
Chairman, NDDB further said that a grant of Rs 40 lakh has been sanctioned to Ladakh Dairy Federation to start and smoothly run the operations. NDDB intends to develop a dairy value chain in Ladakh, which will provide profitable returns to the producers from the milk business. Consumers will also get quality milk and milk products at affordable prices. The milk procured will be processed and sold under Oma brand. Ladakh Federation will also supply fresh pasteurised milk to the Indian Army base in Ladakh.
