Interview Times Odisha is enthusiastic to bring a milk revolution within the State, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said at the inauguration of the newly-commissioned ultra-modern automated dairy plant of OMFED at Arilo, Cuttack on Wednesday.
The dairy body, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has given technical consultancy for the facility.
CM Patnaik has named drain as a major component in giving nutritional security, and said that the State government is looking to bring a drain revolution with these measures. The newly-inaugurated ultra-modern dairy plant has drain processing capacity of 5 lakh liters per day (LLPD) and can produce 20 tons of drain powder per day and other milk items like butter, ghee, flavoured milk, paneer etc.
Meenesh Shah, Chairman, NDDB said, “The plant has come up with a cost of about ₹250 crore. Such technical advancement and infrastructure upgradation with NDDB’s support will bring about the much-required socio-economic change of provincial Odisha.”
Other than milk processing facilities, NDDB has set up a state-of-the-art BSL3 laboratory at Bhubaneswar for ICAR to conduct precise epidemiological and molecular epidemiological studies on Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) with an outlay of approximately ₹160 crore. The dairy body is additionally replicating manure management model over eight States in the country including Odisha.
“Cuttack Milk Union is spearheading implementation of the first such manure management project in the State. The project is being implemented with funding support from Indian Immunologicals Ltd through NDDB Foundation for Nutrition,” an NDDB statement said.
NDDB has completed IVF/ ETT Laboratory at CCBF Sunabeda and Chiplima in order to improve the productivity of milch animals and set up a 150-TPD Cattle Feed Plant at Khurda with an outlay of ₹27 crores, which can produce up to 300 MTPD cattle feed with a 20-hour operation.
