About Amruta Dairy FPO
Dairy farming plays a major role in the livelihood of Dairy Farmers in Raghunathpur Block of Jagatsinghpur District. About 2.5 lakh litres per day milk has been procured from the district daily. Women play a major role in the dairy activities such as milking, feeding of animal, etc.
In order to increase the profitability of the activity at individual farmer level, a FPO named “Amruta Dairy and Agrovet Farmer Producer Company Ltd” has been formed with the support of NABARD during the year 2022-23 with SEEDS as the POPI.
The FPO was registered under companies Act, 2013 on 6th May, 2022.
Skill and Capacity Building support Training has been continuously providing to 10 Women BODs, CEO and Share Holders of FPO. NABARD provided support for up skilling of FPO members through Micro Enterprise Development Programme (MEDP) and Livelihood and Enterprise Development Programme (LEDP), DPR for production value added products such as Cow Ghee, Khoa, Peda, Paneer, curd, Rabidi, Vermicompost, Cocopeat.
On accessing the growth potential of the company, ADAFPCL has sanctioned a credit facility of Rs. 12 Lakhs under PMFME by UCO Bank, Jagatsinghpur Branch for Dairy Processing Unit & Rs. 5 Lakhs from NABKISAN Loan as Working Capital.
Technical Training has been provided to FPO members for the function of Modern Dairy Equipments.
As on now FPO has self sustainable for Marketing of the FPO’s Dairy Products along with their own Name & Brand with FSSAI Licence. Also Women Farmers are involved in all stages of value addition supply chain, such as, production, processing, distribution and sales.
For manufacturing the Dairy Products one 1000 Sqft Dairy Processing unit has been established with Hybrid Solar Technology based Bulk Milk Cooler and 14 other Modern Dairy Machineries for production of Different Value Added Products from Raw Milk collected from Dairy Farmers.
Additional Milch animal through Credit Linkage, Dairy KCC, Input Supply, Fodder Development and also increase in livelihood income of the dairy farmers through Amruta Dairy and Agrovet FPCL.
After implementation of FPO project the farmers get the maximum price of their milk along with the profit generated from Value addition of the milk to Different Milk Products.
IMPACT
After undertaking the activity, they are earning Rs.2000.00 per months by working less than two hour per day. They also got various recognition for their work from District Administration and also from State Govt. They are happy as they now processing 500 litre of cow milk in daily in their Modern Dairy Processing unit under "Amruta Dairy and Agrovet Farmer Producer Company Ltd”.