Dharwad District Co-operative Milk Producers' Societies Union Ltd - DAMUL

Dharwad District Co-operative Milk Producers' Societies Union Ltd - DAMUL

A herbinger of rural prosperity
694 Members | Established: 1986

Business Overview

Dharwad Co-operative milk producers Union Lte., (DAMUL) has been registered under Karnataka Co-operative Act in March 1986 covering Dharwad, Haveri, Gadag and Uttara Kannada Districts. DAMUL has 694 number of Functional Dairy Co-operative Societies (DCS) which include 78 Nos. of exclusive women Dairy Co-operative societies. Cuttently DAMUL is procuring and marketing 1 lakh kgs of milk per day. Emphasis has been given to procure good quality milk through Clean Milk production programme. Apart from having a main dairy at Dharwad and 6 Chilling Centers, it has installed 18 Bulk Milk Coolers at the village level DCS. Installation of 70 AMCUs, 553 Electornic Milk Testers and 438 nos, of Electronic weighing scales have further strengthened Clean Milk Production programme. DAMUL has infrastructure to handle 2.10 lakh ltrs. of milk,produce 12.0 tons of milk powder,8 tons of Butter and 6 tons of ghee per day. Apart from producing toned milk, Homogenised cow milk and high fatmilk (Shubam) DAMUL has forged a significant name in production of Peda,Curds,Lassi,Panner and Khova. Dharwad Milk Union is committed to welfare of Milk Producers and Consumers through adoption of several innovative programmes. 1. Producers have been provided technical inputs in form of subsidized fodder seeds,root slips, timely payment of remunerative milk rates. 2. The commission structure to Dairy Co-operative Societies have been enhanced in order to strengthen them. 3. Health programmes for cattle have been taken care of through conduction of regular health camps, 4. A trust has been formed to take care of eventualities that crop up due to accidents to producers and DCS Staff. 5. Cross breeding programme through Artificial Insemination has reached farmers doorstep through cluster Artificial Insemination(A.I) centres, about 300 A.I workers are involved in this activity. DAMUL was producing energy through coal for the propose of processing. However,keeping public health in view,it has switched over to LPG based boiler and in contrinuation towards its efforts towards clean environment DAMUL has embarked on developing green fodder farm by utillizing the treated water from effluent treatment plant. Well established laboratory ensures only good quality milk and products reaches the consumers through a well established network of dealers and ATM outlets. In the year of celebrating silver jubilee DAMUL continues to serve producers and consumers.

Objectives

# To ensure assured and remunerative market round the year for the milk produced by the farmer members.

# To make available quality milk and other premier dairy products to urban consumers.

# To build & develop village level institutions as cooperative model units to manage the dairy activities.

# To ensure provision of inputs for milk production, processing facilities and dissemination of know how.

# To facilitate rural development by providing opportunities for self employment at village level, preventing migration to urban areas,introducing cash economy and opportunity for a sustained income .

# The philosophy of dairy development is to eliminate middlemen and organise institutions to be owned and managed by the milk producers themselves, employing professionals.

# To sum it up, every activity of KMF revolves around meeting one basic objective: 'Achieve economies of scale to ensure maximum returns to the milk producers, at the same time facilitate wholesome milk at reasonable price to urban consumers'. Ultimately, the complex network of cooperative organization should build a bridge between masses of rural producers and millions of urban consumers and in the process achieve a socio-economic revolution in every hinterland of the State.

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Address

Product Dairy, Lakkammanahalli Industrial area, Dharwad, Karnataka, India, 580004

Phone

0836-2467603 / 2468380 / 2467643

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