
Tata Trust-run facility transferred to Gomati Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union, expanding procurement networks across Dhalai district.
The Tata Trust-run Tridha Dairy processing facility located in Kamalpur was formally handed over to the Gomati Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited (Gomati Dairy). As reported by Abhishek Dey for the Tripura Chronicle, the transition ceremony was conducted under the leadership of Gomati Dairy Chairman Ratan Ghosh, alongside the cooperative’s Board of Directors and Managing Director Narayan Chandra Ghosh. The event was attended by Kamalpur Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Manoj Kanti Deb, along with senior departmental officials and local dignitaries, marking a strategic milestone for the dairy sector in Tripura’s Dhalai district.
The facility transfer is designed to open vital commercial opportunities for smallholders, dairy farmers, and agricultural producers across Dhalai by integrating the Kamalpur unit directly into Gomati Dairy’s wider procurement and processing infrastructure. Historically supported by philanthropic and developmental initiatives under Tata Trusts, the assimilation of Tridha Dairy into Tripura’s apex cooperative framework establishes a formal institutional bridge between regional raw milk producers and statewide processing channels.
Under the new operational arrangement, Gomati Dairy plans to streamline and expand the day-to-day processing activities at Kamalpur in the coming months. The cooperative’s immediate priority will focus on scaling daily milk procurement volumes directly from surrounding village-level dairy farmers, incentivizing rural households to expand their milking herds and encouraging broader youth and agrarian participation in the formal dairy economy.
Beyond expanding upstream farmgate collection, the cooperative aims to optimize the Kamalpur plant to guarantee the supply of safe, pasteurized, and hygienically packaged milk and value-added dairy derivatives for consumers across northern Tripura. Gomati Dairy officials emphasized that building a modernized processing hub in Dhalai will establish reliable market linkages, eliminating middleman exploitation and providing smallholder milk producers with stable, transparent milk checks anchored to scientific fat and solid-not-fat (SNF) metrics.
For the broader northeastern Indian dairy sector, the integration of Tridha Dairy into Gomati Dairy aligns with Tripura’s overarching drive toward regional dairy self-sufficiency and rural poverty alleviation. Following recent expansions that include cross-border retail distribution into southern Assam’s Barak Valley and the commissioning of large-scale processing units, strengthening rural hubs like Kamalpur provides Gomati Dairy with the procurement base needed to satisfy rising urban dairy demand while safeguarding farmer prosperity.
Source: Tripura Chronicle
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