On October 7, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah is expected to inaugurate a day-long dairy cooperative congress of the eastern and northeastern zones in Sikkim.
The National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India is organising the colloquium (NCDFI).
According to NCDFI Chairman Mangal Jit Rai, Shah’s office has confirmed his presence in the Gangtok conclave. The function’s honoree will be Sikkim Chief Minister P S Tamang.
Top officials from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal’s cooperative milk unions and state dairy federations are likely to participate, according to Rai.
The event is expected to draw 1,200 participants from these 12 states.
Taking inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India efforts, Rai stated that the NCDFI has created an online marketplace dubbed “NCDFI eMarket” to give transparent and fair deals to member dairy cooperatives with the National Dairy Development Board’s endorsement.
In 2021-22, he said, the NCDFI coordinated the supply of milk and milk products worth Rs 1,406 crore for institutional sale and facilitated the sale of 4.37 crore frozen sperm doses (FSDs) worth Rs 84 crore.
Rai stated that the NCDFI completed a total deal of Rs 4,815 crore on the NCDFI eMarket via various auctions on the platform.
(source : PTI)
