Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which sell dairy products under the ‘Amul’ brand, said on Thursday that it is likely to augment milk supply in Maharashtra by six lakh litres a day from next year.
This will be achieved through the setting up of a plant by its affiliate Kaira Cooperative.
Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union is in the process of setting up a greenfield dairy at Virar in Mumbai, having initial milk processing capacity of six lakh
litres per day.
“The plant in Virar being set up by Kaira will have milk processing capacity of six lakh litres expandable to over eight lakh litres, and it shall augment our milk supply in Maharasthra,” GCMMF Managing Director R S Sodhi told PTI.
Presently, GCMMF supplies close to nine lakh litres of milk per day to Maharashtra through its three affiliate dairy unions and couple of private dairies in Mumbai whom it has hired for milk collections.
“The dairy plant being set up at an investment of Rs 150 crore in Virar near Mumbai is expected to be up and running between January to February next year,” Kaira District
Cooperative Milk Producers Union Chairman Ramsinh Parmar said.
“It shall be our third plant in the country. Kaira presently owns one dairy plant each in Gujarat and Pune. The plant in Pune has a milk processing capacity of one lakh
litre,” he said.