Pioneer reports on OMFED‘s milk collection and its future plans. Following are some excerpts.

The Orissa Milk Federation (OMFED) established an all-time record on Sunday by collecting 4, 11,237 liters of milk.

This became possible because of the dairy development programme spread over 30 districts of the State.

The district milk federation of Cuttack alone collected 2, 2,564 liters of milk, which is the highest among all the district milk federations in eastern India.

… OMFED plans to collect 10 lakh liters of milk per day by 2012. To build the infrastructure required to collect as much milk, OMFED has already started its work.

It has submitted a plan of Rs 15 crore to the Panchayati Raj department for enlarging the capacity of the existing dairies, building more bulk coolers in the rural areas, pressing into service more tankers for transportation of milk, establishment of new fodder plants and their capacity enhancement.

With the establishment of more fodder plants the producers will be supplied fodders at subsidised rates, which in turn will give a boost to milk production.