Milk Proc.Network

Rajkot Milk Union's most of the activities are replica of ANAND PATTERN. Milk procurement is one of the basic / fundamental activities which is supporting the entire programme / business of the Rajkot dairy.

Milk producers/ farmers become the member of the village level Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS), managed by a local management committee of about 11-12 elected farmer members. Members of the management committee elect a Chairman and the committee appoints a Secretary & a tester for the daily routine activities of the DCS. Farmers/ milk producers pour milk to the DCS during pre-fixed time both in morning and evening and receive payment at 10 days interval based on the quality of milk. Besides milk price, the Society pays price difference and annual bonus.

There are about 805 DCSs working on the same pattern , procuring milk 365 days of the year,thus establishing a ready made market in the village itself.

The villages where DCSs have been established are distributed throughout the district and the farthest is at 175 km. Besides the villages of Rajkot district , milk is also procured from about 210 DCSs of the adjoining districts of Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli & Porbandar.

To organise the DCSs in a systematic manner, Milk routes have been formed and all 805 functional DCSs are distributed in 80 milk routes. In view of high transportation cost and to maintain the quality of milk at low temperature, . Chilling units have been established at different places having different capacity.

Again to procure milk from more number of farmers who cannot bring milk within a fixed time at the DCS because their animals are kept at BARI, Bulk Milk Cooling Units (BMCU) of different capacities (2000 -5000 Lits) have been installed in 30 selected DCSs, with the financial assistance of the Govt. of India, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Animal Husbandry , Dairying & Fisheries. With this arrangement, milk collected from the milk producers for a little more delayed time both in morning and evening, transported once in 2/3 days, saving transportation cost & maintaining the quality at 4-5 C. Observing the advantages of BMCU, more DCSs are coming forward to install BMCU from their own fund. Rajkot Milk Union is also trying to help those DCSs who are interested in BMCU.

Milk from all DCSs, except from those taken to 6 Chilling Units, are brought to the Milk Collection Dock of Rajkot Dairy at Rajkot, in milk cans of 40 lit capacity. DCSs having BMCU, collect 3/4 times milk which is transported to Rajkot dairy in tanker.

The chilled milk from chilling units or pasteurized milk from Rajkot dairy, is sent to Mother Dairy , Gandhinagar or to any other dairy as per directions of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF).