National Dairy Development Board came up with an attempt to unleash a white revolution to generate income for 24,000 people in the state. Two milk processing plants of 1 lakh litre capacity and 25,000 litre capacity
would be set up in Ranchi and Jamshedpur respectively under the Jharkhand Dairy Project.
The Jharkhand Dairy Project is worth Rs. 48 crores under Rashtriya Krishi vikas Yojna with implementation period of five years and it covers 12 district where chilling plants will be set up and milk will be collected from village level cooperative societies each society having 20 members.
Jamshedpur district dairy officer, Chandra Kumar Singh said that they have identified a 5 acre plot at Baliguma for the milk processing plant worth Rs. 7 crore. He said there is a scope of expanding the production capacity to 5 lakh litreper day given the market demand and collection of milk. Singh further added that their initial target is to engage village level socities in about 300 villages in Jamshedpur and Patamda.
