Acquisitions and growth in markets outside the EU have helped dairy giant Arla Foods report higher annual sales and profits. The company said today (20 February) its consolidated net profit jumped by more than a third in 2012 to DKK1.9bn ...
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The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) of India has unveiled the first phase of the National Dairy Plan (NDP) in eight states of the country, including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and ...
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New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has opened Sri Lanka's first solar powered milk chilling centre. The Hanwella-based facility, which officially opened this week, has been designed to conserve around 22,000 kW per year. The centre, which ...
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The easy handling and safe packaging patterns in diary industry is making more consumers in India to turn towards packaged Liquid Dairy Products (LDP), according to the study by market researcher rncos.com. The research report, Indian ...
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National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), a state-run dairy research organisation in Bangalore, India, is using advanced technologies to develop traditional milk products (TDPs). NDRI senior scientist K Jayaraj Rao, principal scientist C ...
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Daily milk production in the UK diary farms has been reduced by 1.1liter to 24.1liter a cow due to unfavorable weather conditions across the country. Average milk production for October 2012 was reported as 993 million liters, a 6.5% drop ...
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Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that identifies physical, allergenic, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can ...
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The US government has again cut its forecast for corn yields as the impact of the worst drought in the country for 50 years becomes clearer. Washington said the US corn yield is set to be the lowest since 1995-96, sending futures to a ...
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Nestle has invested CHF121m (US$124.4m) in its facility in Goa, India in a bid to boost production capacity. The facility, which produces Kit Kat and Munch branded products, is expected to create around 250 jobs and increase the company's ...
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Irish food group Glanbia has moved a step closer in its bid to sell a stake in its domestic ingredients business. Glanbia said it has signed contracts with its majority shareholder, the Glanbia Co-operative Society, to run what it said is ...
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Irish dairy co-operative Dairygold has announced plans to invest EUR120m (US$146.4m) over the next eight years in increasing its milk production capacity. Dairygold, which processes 29m litres of milk per week, is set to increase that by ...
UK dairy group Dairy Crest said this morning (17 July) its full-year expectations remained "unchanged" despite a "challenging" first-quarter. In its interim management statement, released ahead of today's AGM, Dairy Crest said its dairies ...
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Arla Foods and Fonterra have teamed up with Danish analytical solutions provider Foss to develop a screening method to determine whether milk has been tampered with for financial gain. The'fingerprint'-based screening technique will ...
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Asda, the UK's second-largest grocer, has again increased the price it pays to milk farmers in its dedicated DairyLink scheme as protests over recent cuts in the industry continue. The company has offered its DairyLink farmers a two pence ...
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UK cheese maker Wyke Farms has announced plans to increase the price it pays farmers for milk. The dairy group said it will raise its milk price by a further 0.75ppl from 1 November. The move follows an increase of 0.5ppl implemented in ...
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