Plant has a production capacity of 50,000 litres of milk per day which can be increased to 1 lakh litres per day as and when required and was built at a cost of Rs 28 crore.
Jharkhand took a step towards becoming self-sufficient in milk production with the inauguration of a dairy plant at Palamu by chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday evening.
The “high-tech” dairy plant at Chianki in the Palamu district has a production capacity of 50,000 litres of milk per day which can be increased to 1 lakh litres per day as and when required and was built at a cost of Rs 28 crore.
Managing director of Jharkhand State Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation (popularly referred to as Jharkhand Milk Federation- JMF), Sudhir Kumar Singh, said that this was the seventh dairy plant of the JMF and had been built by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
“The state currently has a production capacity of 3.5 lakh litres of milk per day but has plans to increase the current capacity to 5 lakh litres. Once we reach the 5-lakh-litre capacity daily, we will become self-sufficient in milk production,” said Singh.
“We have already finalised talks with the NDDB for starting 50,000-litre capacity (expandable to 1 lakh) dairy plants at Jamshedpur and Giridih which will help us to achieve self-sufficiency in milk production. We are planning to start operation of the facilities in the next 18 months,” Singh added.
