The Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union is the first cooperative society registered in the year 1955 in the

Union Territory of Puducherry as Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Supply society and later it was converted into the milk producers union in the year 1973. The Dairy was established on installed capacity of 10000 litres milk a day at a cost of Rs.23.00 lakhs and at present this dairy has a capacity to handle 50,000 litres per day. All the primary cooperative milk producers societies were transformed to Anand Pattern Societies. 2. The Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union is operating in the Puducherry Region with 101 affiliated dairy cooperative societies. There are 10000 cattle owners, who become members in the Dairy Cooperative Societies at villages and supplying milk to Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union, milk supplying members are being paid fortnightly in cash with remunerative milk price @ Rs.11.17 per litre. (On the basis of 4.5% FAT and 8.5% SNF). 3. The present handling capacity of the Dairy Plant is 50,000 litres per day. However with prudent technical manpower and Top Management, support 75,000 to 1,00,000 litres of milk is handled per day. It produces 3 varieties of milk namely Tonned milk, standardized milk and premium milk as per the consumer requirements. At the village level the milch poured by the individual member producer are tested at the Primary society. The Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union is selling their different varieties of milk in the Puducherry market under the brand name Ponlait. 4. The Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union, owns a small cattle feed plant of 10 metric tonne/per day capacity in Thattanchavady Industrial Estate, Puducherry. It extends the Govt. subsidy of Rs.100/- to each bag containing 50 kgs of Feed out of the total cost of Rs.312/- per bag. The total production of cattle Feed is 40 Metric Tonnes/per day. 5. Now, in order to implement the assurances given by the Honble Chief Minister on the Floor of the House, action have been takenfor establishment of Modern Automatic Mega Dairy Plant at a cost of Rs.2,500 lakhs and a new cattle feed unit with capacity of 100 Tonnes per day at a cost of Rs.1,200 lakhs. Necessary scheme approval have been obtained from the Govt. 6. The Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union had submitted a proposal seeking financial assistance under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme Strengthening Infrastructure for Quality and Clean Milk Production to the Department of Agriculture, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India to establish Bulk Milk Coolers at six villages in a phased manner during the year 2005-06 to 2007-08. The approved project cost of the scheme is Rs.88.20 lakhs of which the Central Governments assistance is Rs.71.46 and the balance amount of Rs.16.74 lakhs is the Unions share. The Govt. of India released a sum of Rs.19.30 lakhs during the last week of March 2006 to the Union Territory Exchequer and revalidated the funds for utilistation during the year 2006-07. The Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union received the amount on 18.7.2006 and initiated action to order for Machineries required for establishment of Bulk Milk Coolers.

The Pondicherry Co-operative Milk Producers Union (Ponlait)