Sabar Dairy's first plant outside state begins operation

VADODARA: Himmatnagar-based Sabarkantha District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited (SDCMPUL), popularly known as Sabar Dairy, on Saturday started operations at its new plant at Rohtak in Haryana.
The Rohtak plant with a processing capacity of 10 lakh litres of milk per day (LLPD) is Sabar Dairy's first plant outside Gujarat.
Apart from milk, the plant will also produce butter milk, curd and ice-cream.It has been set up with an investment of around Rs 200 crore by Sabar Dairy, a member union of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets the brand Amul.
With this, Amul family will be catering to the Delhi-NCR market through three plants of its member unions. Out of the three plants, two are managed by Mehsana's Dudhsagar Dairy at Manesar and Dharuhera and while the third one is based at Rohtak.
Banas Dairy, another member union of GCMMF, is setting up a 15 LLPD plant at Faridabad with an investment of Rs 300 crore. The Faridabad plant which is likely to be operational after six months, will be the fourth plant started by a GCMMF member union in Haryana.
Amul which had entered the Delhi market in the year 2003, currently supplies 28 LLPD of pouched milk in the Delhi-NCR region. "Our member unions have so far invested Rs 1,200 crore for setting up plants in Haryana," GCMMF's managing director R S Sodhi told TOI, adding that the federation is expanding its network and capacity to have pan-India presence. Recently, the dairy giant had entered South India's milk market by launching Amul milk in Hyderabad.
The Rohtak plant has come up at Haryana State Industrial Corporation estate and is strategically located three kilometres away from Rohtak city.
By 2020, Amul is targeting sales of around 65 LLPD in Delhi-NCR region when the packaged milk market is expected to expand to one crore litres a day from the present 50 LLPD.