Belagavi milk union records ₹13.2 crore profit

MLA and BEMUL Chairman Balachandra Jarkiholi talking to reporters in Belagavi on April 15, 2025.
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“Belagavi District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (BEMUL) has achieved a profit of ₹13.20 crore within the final 12 months. That is unprecedented for the reason that institution of the union in 1985,” Balachandra Jarkiholi , Chairman of BEMUL, mentioned in Belagavi on April 15.

“We’ve got finished so properly that it has surpassed our expectations. It has been achieved solely by prudent fiscal administration and avoiding pointless expenditure,” the MLA instructed reporters.

“The earlier 12 months, we clocked a modest profit of ₹68 lakh. Nonetheless, this time, we have now earned a profit of ₹13.20 crore. This has occurred as a consequence of corruption-free administration, much less funds used for the annual normal conferences, and non-receipt of TA and DA by the members of the administration board, and different reform measures,” he mentioned.

“The entire turnover of BEMUL was ₹399.50 crore. This was larger than final 12 months’s turnover of ₹320.83 crore. The profit has elevated by about 24%. Nonetheless, the union is not going to hold the profit for itself. It is going to distribute them among the many farmers and reinvest it in strengthening the establishment, like organising equipment, decentralising the procurement and processing operations, and organising items to provide milk by-products,” the Chairman mentioned.

Income shall be used for the welfare of milk producers, associations, contract staff, safety guards, based on him.

The union has established a complete of 1,002 milk producers’ cooperative societies in Belagavi district. Out of those, 610 milk producers’ cooperative societies are operational. Out of those, 160 are girls’s societies. To date, share capital amounting to ₹622.10 lakh has been collected. There’s a important dairy with a capability of 1.50 lakh litres in Belagavi, chilly storage centres with a capability of 30,000 litres every in Ramadurga and Athani. It has a processing unit with a capability of 60,000 litres in Raibag. A complete of 39 BMC items have been established below the Central Authorities’s pure milk manufacturing and particular bundle schemes. The Plexi Pack unit has a each day milk packing capability of 80,000 litres.

“As many as 43 new associations had been established within the 12 months 2024-25. A mean of two.10 lakh kg of milk is being procured each day. In comparison with final 12 months, there was a rise of twenty-two%. Additionally, a complete of 12,797 cows have been supplied insurance coverage amenities at a concessional charge of 75% by the union. ₹1.22 crore has been supplied by way of insurance coverage to the homeowners of 245 cows that died. Synthetic insemination providers have been supplied to 1,34,138 cows,” he mentioned.

“About 80 lakh litres of milk have been bought from the Plexi Unit to the native market and to the neighbouring State of Andhra Pradesh, 3,80,516 litres of ghee have been bought, 41,12,820 litres of curd have been bought, 1,73,746 kg of paneer has been bought, 74,245 kg of kunda has been bought. new 10-kg bucket yogurt sale has been began. 50 to 100 buckets of yogurt are being packed and bought each day within the markets of Belagavi district and within the neighbouring State of Goa,” he mentioned.

The affiliation has launched buffalo milk to the Mumbai market, and 5,000 litres of milk are being bought each day.

Final February, 2.50 lakh buttermilk packets of 130 ml pack had been equipped to Saundatti Sri Yallamma temple.

An annual saving of ₹2.52 crore has been made in bills.

The union is in search of land to arrange a big dairy close to a river mattress or dam with entry to the Nationwide Freeway. “We’re planning to arrange a high-tech mega dairy with new know-how at a price of ₹350 crore,” the Chairman mentioned.

“The federal government of Karnataka is but to launch ₹9 crore manufacturing incentive to farmers from December 2024,” he mentioned.