Archive · 3 Sep 2026
Tamil Nadu Announces Dairy Schemes for Milk Quality, Output
Tamil Nadu wants to improve the milk people buy and the way milk is collected.
The Ambattur dairy will get new equipment to improve the milk supplied in Chennai.
Aavin shops will open in government medical college hospitals for patients.
Milk collection will be automated so the process is more transparent.
New coolers will keep milk fresh in rural areas.
Generators will help prevent milk from spoiling during power cuts.
The government will also provide better feed, medicines and grass seeds for cattle.
These steps are intended to increase milk production, protect consumers and improve farmers’ incomes.
Ambattur milk dairy will receive a Rs. 2 crore homogeniser upgrade.
Tamil Nadu will automate milk procurement to improve transparency and curb corruption.
The state will establish 60 bulk milk coolers and 40 cooling-facility buildings at a cost of Rs. 25 crore.
Programmes costing Rs. 10 crore each will improve Jersey calf growth and address fertility problems in other cows.
Grass seeds, generator sets, adulteration detectors and laboratory equipment will support milk producers and quality control.
- Who
- Tamil Nadu Dairy Development Minister C Vijayalakshmi announced the measures.
- What
- The government announced programmes for milk-quality improvements, automated procurement, cooling facilities, cattle health and fodder production.
- When
- The announcements were made on Wednesday while replying to the Dairy Development Ministry’s demand for grants in the Assembly.
- Where
- The measures will cover the Ambattur dairy, Chennai, rural milk centres, government medical college hospitals, and laboratories at Erode and Tiruvannamalai.
- Why
- The schemes aim to improve milk quality and production, prevent spoilage and adulteration, increase transparency, reduce producer costs and improve cattle growers’ incomes.
- Ambattur dairy upgrade
- A homogeniser will be installed at a cost of Rs. 2 crore; the dairy supplies 4.5 lakh litres of packet milk to Chennai consumers.
- Milk cooling
- Sixty bulk milk coolers and 40 buildings with cooling facilities will be constructed at a cost of Rs. 25 crore.
- Cooler capacity
- Each bulk milk cooler will have a capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 litres.
- Power backup
- Generator sets will be provided to 100 milk coolers.
- Adulteration control
- Adulteration detectors will be supplied to 84 milk-storing centres.
- Cattle programmes
- Two programmes, each budgeted at Rs. 10 crore, will address Jersey calf growth and fertility problems in other cows.
- Fodder support
- Twenty-five metric tonnes of grass seeds will be provided to 5,000 milk producers.