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Sunday, September 21, 2025
TopicDairy farming

Topic: Dairy farming

Owners’ consent must, only voluntary donations—Centre’s new blood transfusion rules for animals

From establishing blood banks to guidelines on how to collect, store & match blood samples, the SoP makes blood donations easier & standardised for domestic animals.

Did Harappans exploit animals for dairy? Lipid residue from Gujarat’s Kotada Bhadli has answers

The Harappan site of Kotada Bhadli contains the earliest direct evidence of dairy product processing, which may have played an important role in its survival and expansion.

‘No other option’ — behind Amul price revisions, a battle against soaring costs in Gujarat’s dairies

Gujarat’s Amul has courted controversy as a ‘challenger’ to Karnataka’s homegrown Nandini, but the dairy giant is struggling due to rising costs, farms shutting down.

Amul turns to Lord Krishna, Goumata to counter PETA & hail India’s cultural links with milk

The move comes nearly a month after the NGO, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) asked Amul to switch to producing vegan milk.

How AI can help Indian dairy farmers

Artificial Intelligence can be a game-changer for the dairy industry in India — if the right data can be made available to the right stakeholders.

India’s dairy farmers have become a big hurdle for trade deals with US, EU

India feels strongly about milk products on worries that imports could destroy livelihood of millions of farmers, most of who are small & lack economy of scale.

From birth to slaughter — an account that ‘blows lid off meat, egg and dairy trade secrecy’

Poorva Joshipura's 'For a Moment of Taste', by HarperCollins, will be released on 5 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.

Why Maharashtra’s dairy farmers are dumping milk on roads and idols

The farmers have suffered huge losses during the lockdown, and are now demanding a subsidy of Rs 10 per litre from the Maharashtra govt.

Fodder shortage in India major reason behind rise in milk costs, says govt institute

There is a deficit of 23.4% in the availability of dry fodder, 11.24% in that of green fodder and 28.9% for concentrates, the institute has said in a report. 

In Gujarat, the land of Amul, dairy farming has become a huge Lok Sabha poll issue

Dairy farmers are unhappy with low prices and lack of government support, and the Congress has turned their anger into a poll plank against the ruling BJP.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.