Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the revival of Chittoor Co-operative Dairy, popularly known as the Vijaya Dairy, on July 4.CM Jagan performed Bhoomi puja for Amul project at Chittoor Dairy on Tuesday and inspected the photo exhibition set up at Chittoor police parade grounds.
The restoration work of Chittoor dairy, which is being undertaken at Rs.385 crores will start its production by April 2024 by setting up a milk processing unit in the first phase.In the second phase, the government will be setting up the largest ice cream plant in the country with Re.150 crore followed by a dairy factory along with Ultra High Treatment (UHT) plant.
Through this dairy restoration, employment opportunities will be provided to 5000 people directly and 2 lakh people indirectly besides benefitting 25 lakh dairy farmers.
The Chittoor Dairy, which was once touted as the second biggest dairy in the country, became defunct for various reasons and was permanently shut down with hundreds of crores in debt to the farmers in 2002.
The hopes of thousands of farmers were dashed by the sudden closure of the dairy without any notice.
In the run-up to the 2019 general elections, Jagan Mohan Reddy promised to revive the dairy once the YSRC comes to power in the state.
To take forward the promise made to the farmers and the people of the Chittoor district, the state government has inked an MoU with Anand Milk Union Limited (Amul) in 2020 to infuse a new lease of life into the cooperative dairy sector in the state to benefit the dairy farmers.
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