Tumkur Co-operative Milk Producers' Societies Union Ltd - TUMUL
Tumkur Co-operative Milk Producers' Societies Union Ltd - TUMUL
A herbinger of rural prosperity
Business Overview
Tumkur co-operative Milk Producers societies Union Limited (TUMUL) is a district apex body in Karnataka.
The Union established under World Bank project in 1975 and registered under co-operative act on 27th June 1977 covering the entire Tumkur district as its area of operation.
The dairy development activities started during 1976 by the Karnataka Dairy Development Corporation (KDDC) with the object of supporting the marketing
activities of the Bangalore market. Hence, 30,000 litres capacity farm cooler was established. Subsequently, during 1981, this has been converted as 60 TLPD feeder plant.
The processing capacity of the dairy was increased to 1 lakh litres during 2005 under Perspective plan phase I. Due to the rapid increase in milk procurement, again the processing capacity of the dairy will be increased to 3.25 lakh litres per day.
Apart from this Union owns 4 chilling centres at Sira (20 TLPD), Yediyur (20 TLPD), KB Cross (60 TLPD) and Madhugiri (60 TLPD). Besides this, Union has 18 Bulk milk coolers and 185 Automatic Milk Collection centres.
The Union sells milk and milk products under the brand name of “Nandini”.
Objectives
# Providing assured and remunerative market for all the milk produced by the farmer members.
# Providing hygienic milk to urban consumers.
# To build village level institutions in co-operative sector to manage the dairy activities.
# To ensure provision of milk production inputs processing facilities.
# To facilitate rural development by providing opportunities for self-employment at village level, preventing introducing cash economy and opportunity for steady income.
