Saurabh Dairy to set up dairy plant in MP

Bhopal, July 5: A Mumbai-based industrialist has offered to set up an export-oriented dairy plant in Madhya Pradesh with a total investment of Rs 200 crore.

Saurabh Dairy Chairman Kunwarji Bhai Badodaria along with a high-level team met Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here yesterday in this regard and proposed to set up the dairy plant either at Bhopal, Indore or Ujjain. Mr Chouhan offered to provide government assistance in the endeavour, official sources said.

The dairy plant and chilling plant, having a capacity to produce five lakh litre dairy, will be set up at a cost of Rs 50 crore, while another Rs 150 crore will be spent to assist the farmers and unemployed youth to become self-reliant in dairy sector. The farmers will be provided loan to purchase about 50,000 indigenous cows.

Along with milk powder, milk protein powder, electros, ghee and butter would be produced with a target to export 70 percent of the products.

Production of byproducts like cow urine based pesticide, bio-gas, gobar-gas power plant, bio-farming would be promoted by the company, according to its Managing Director Chetak Badodaria.

UNI