Dairy plants to come up at Keonjhar and Angul.

The Odisha government plans to set up two new dairy plants in the state with each having milk processing capacity of 30,000 litres per day.

“For forward linkage on marketing milk supplied by the dairy farmers , our government has supported establishment of eleven dairy plants having capacity of 5.45 lakh litres per day with more than 350 bulk milk coolers, ice cream plants, milk powder plant and milk product factory. Construction of two new dairy plants, two ice cream plants and one more cattle feed plant are under progress,” said Pradeep Maharathy, minister for agriculture, fisheries and animal resources development.

He was speaking at the inauguration of national symposium on Women Empowerment through dairying organized by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).

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