Kathmandu. The quality of raw milk collected by the Dairy Development Corporation (DDC) has improved following the directive from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. The improvement in the quality of raw milk has been seen after the DDC strictly implemented the standards to improve the quality of raw milk.
DDC general manager Dr Sharan Kumar Pandey said that following the directive from the Office of the Prime Minister, arrangements have been made to remove the consignments of suspicious milk immediately while priority has been given to the purchase of high quality milk by revising the criteria of ‘fat’ and ‘SNF’ in the milk purchase.
DDC’s chilling centres will collect milk on the basis of fat and SNF and send it to the cell, and the quality test will be carried out again in the laboratory once the project arrives.
After the directive from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Department of Food Technology and Quality Control on June 29 tested the samples of the milk and found the quality of the milk less than the ‘fat’ and ‘SNF’ details mentioned in the invoice.
After that, all the cooling centers were tested and investigation is underway on the suspicious cases seen earlier, Pandey said.
Deepa Dahal, press expert of Prime Minister Balendra Shah, said that the Prime Minister’s Office has directed the corporation to take action against the guilty and take corrective steps to prevent such activities from happening again in the future.
Corrective action
The chief of Bharatpur Chilling Centre in Chitwan has been removed from his duties for negligence in the collection of sub-standard milk.
An explanation has been sought from the chiefs of other cooling centres within three days. According to the Institute, directives have been issued to make the project chief responsible if there is any difference between the quality test of the cooling center and laboratory test of the project in the coming days.
Similarly, Manahari Sharma, an employee at the project’s laboratory, has also been removed from his responsibility on suspicion of collusion.
The corporation has stated that further action will be taken against the employees involved after receiving the response to the clarification.
According to DDC, there has been uniformity in the quality of milk received at the project since July 1.
According to the corporation, around three thousand liters of milk of sub-standard and adulterated quality was destroyed after laboratory test.
Farmer Payments to Sales Improvements
The corporation has also stated that there has been a significant improvement in the payment to the farmers. The payment period for 235 dairy cooperatives across the country has been reduced from eight months to three months. General Manager Pandey said that works are being carried out with the target of reducing the payment period to 25 days by the first week of August. He said that in the last two months alone, about Rs 40 crore has been paid to the farmers.
According to the corporation, the sale of DDC’s milk products has increased by more than 50 percent compared to the previous year.
Ice cream production has been resumed, while the production and sale of curd has increased by 75 percent. With the appointment of 10 new distributors, it is estimated that additional sales worth Rs 5 million will be recorded daily. The revenue from daily sales has increased by around Rs 20 lakhs and the daily revenue is targeted to reach Rs 130 lakhs from mid-July.
The corporation has said that it is preparing to sign an agreement to export a minimum of 50 metric tons of ghee annually to the Gulf countries.
It is expected to generate an annual turnover of around five crore rupees. The process of exporting ghee to China has also been initiated.
Institutional Reforms
In order to control internal expenditure, two cooling centers with low milk collection have been removed by merger. Two unlikely production centers have been closed and arrangements have been made to purchase and sell milk from nearby projects to reduce transportation cost, according to the corporation.
The annual expenditure of the corporation is estimated to be reduced by three crores due to the reduction of the milk and ghee facilities that the employees have been getting. The government has increased the price of milk from Rs 65 per litre to Rs 66 per litre.
Similarly, preparations are underway to double the production by establishing a new cheese production project in Pashupatinagar of Koshi Province, to operate a cheese and cheese production center in Nagarkot which has been closed for the past 10 years, to start a web-based digital subscription and online purchase system and to expand a dedicated sales counter in the Kathmandu Valley
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