{"id":5137,"date":"2019-08-22T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2019-08-22T07:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:37:05","slug":"reduce-rebate-and-reuse-milk-pouches-to-save-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/reduce-rebate-and-reuse-milk-pouches-to-save-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce, Rebate and Reuse Milk Pouches to save Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A high level meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying to review the milk situation and Reduce, Rebate and Reuse Milk Pouches in the country. The meeting was attended by senior officers of State Cooperative Dairy Federations\/, CEOs\/Managing Directors of Private Dairies, Representatives from Ministry of Women &amp; Child Development, School Education and Literacy, Commerce &amp; Industries, National Dairy Development Board &amp; APEDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In view of announcement by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on Independence Day, AMUL and Mother Dairy were requested to formulate action plan\/protocol to recycle milk pouches and share with Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying for circulation to other Milk Federations for implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying\nrequested Major Dairy Federations like Gujarat Milk Federation (Amul),\nKarnataka Milk Federation (Nandini), Punjab Milk Federation (Verka),\nMaharashtra Milk Federation (Mahanand) to encourage reuse of plastic milk\npouches, in a campaign mode, with 3R strategy \u2013 Reduce, Rebate and Reuse. i.e.\nREDUCE consumption of plastics by subsidizing price of 1 litre pack over \u00bd\nlitre pack, REBATE to customers for bringing back plastics, REUSE of pouches\nfor users such as Road construction, recyclers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying requested all\nCooperative Milk Federations and Private Dairies to at least halve plastic use\nby Gandhi Jayanti (2nd October). Media was requested to start a campaign like\nSwachcha Bharat to discourage plastics and thereby improve environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting also reviewed the availability, supply, prices\nand export\/import issues with the milk processors. The milk procurement price\nwas observed to have increased by Rs.1-2 across the country. The\nrepresentatives were requested to focus on the quality aspects of milk and\nreduction in cost of production. The views of the stakeholders present in the\nmeeting were sought on breeding, feeding, disease management, traceability etc.\nto draw the policy to double productivity, exports and farmers income by next 5\nyears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high level meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying to review the milk situation and Reduce, Rebate and Reuse Milk Pouches in the country. 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