Assembly Election 2022 Live Updates: PM Modi to launch dairy plant in Varanasi today; Harish Rawat may ‘retire’ ahead of Uttarakhand elections

Purvanchal region and provide good quality products at affordable prices. Modi will digitally transfer Rs 35.19 crore to the bank accounts of around 1,75,000 milk farmers as year-end dividend for 2020-21.

Modi will also inaugurate and lay foundation stones for 22 development projects worth over Rs 870 crore.

In July 2021, Banas Dairy provided 100 cows of best indigenous breeds to farmer families in Varanasi for model dairy farming. These farmers were given training in animal husbandry and dairy farm management and continuous guidance was arranged for animal husbandry.

Presently more than 25,000 liters of milk is procured daily from 111 locations in Varanasi. Banas Dairy is now setting up its third plant in Varanasi after Lucknow and Kanpur. It will have a capacity of 5 lakh liters per day, which can be increased to 10 lakh liters per day and will be built on 30 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs 475 crore.

The plant will also produce 50,000 liters of ice cream, 20 tonnes of paneer, 75,000 liters of butter milk, 50 tonnes of curd, 15,000 liters of lassi and 10,000 kg of sweets per day. The plant will also have a bakery unit and will include a take home ration plant to produce nutritional supplements for women and children.

The project will benefit local farmers of 1,000 neighboring villages of Purvanchal region like Varanasi, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Azamgarh and will get Rs 8,000-10,000 per month for their milk.

Customers will also get high quality products at affordable prices. The spokesman said the project is expected to provide direct employment to 750 people in the plant, about 2,350 people in allied works and about 1,00,000 people in villages.

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