In a bid to realise full potential of dairy industry in the State being the biggest producer of milk in the country, the Akhilesh Yadav government has decided to establish Amul Milk plants in the State at several places.
Under this initiative, it has been decided to set up four units with capacity of 5 lakh litres milk per day. These units will be established at chakgajaria on Sultanpur road in lucknow, in Jainpur industrial area of Kanpur Rural , in Karkhianv industrial area on Varanasi-lucknow road near airport in district Varanasi and at Saifai in district Etawah, the Chief Secreatry of UP Jawed Usmani told media persons here on Monday.
lakhs of farmers will reap direct benefit from these projects. Milk producers will get reasonable rates of their milk and consumers will get unadulterated milk products high in nutrition. He said that each Milk product plant will be set up with an estimated cost of around 150 crores and in addition to indirect employment, 20,000 new jobs would be created directly approximately 7 lakh farmers families are expected to be benefited, once all four units are established.
According to the plan, in coordination with the kamdhenu scheme of the state government each unit would set up milk collection centres in villages in 100 km around the unit. Farmers will be able to sell their milk at these collection centres for which they would be paid in a cash. Additionally, farmers will be paid a share of the profits earned annually as bonus. Subsequently large agro based industries have been planned to be established in other backwards areas of the state including eastern and Bundelkhand region.