Dairy infra fund to add 5 cr litres more milk, 30L jobs: Sodhi

RS Sodhi, MD, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) says Amul is procuring 15 per cent more milk every day as other private and dairy players are not procuring that much.

Sodhi added since people have been at home during the lockdown, consumption of milk and dairy products has gone up. The opportunities for Amul in the post lockdown period will go up as demand for hygienic and good brands is rising and consumption of loose milk is going down.

He said the Rs 15,000 crore dairy infrastructure fund announced as part of the stimulus package will create a capacity for five crore litres of more milk and 30 lakh jobs. The Rs 10,000 crore scheme for micro entrepreneurs can also tackle the problem of migration by creating dairy entrepreneurs in milk deficit states.

GCMMF had a turnover of Rs 38,500 crore in FY 20 and has a revenue target of Rs 43,000 crore in the current year, Dr Sodhi said. GCMMF is India’s largest food product marketing organization and in FY20, it daily milk procurement was 23 million litres per day.

On how it ensured supply of milk during the lockdown, his response was “As far as Amul supply chain is concerned there has been no interruption and disruption. It continues right from farmer to the consumer. You do not stop consuming milk or milk products during a lockdown. Right from day one, milk was declared as an essential product. So there was no major problem in the supply chain. No doubt we had to take the precautionary and safety measures right from the village level in the classification, processing and distribution of milk and milk products.”