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Regional Committee on Food & Agriculture

29 June 2016
To: Select CII Members/Non-Members

Conference on
EMERGING TRENDS IN BOVINE AND NON BOVINE DAIRY SECTOR
Friday, 29 July 2016 : CII Convention Centre, Chandigarh

In the past two decades, the role of livestock sector, particularly that of dairy has become vital
in maintaining the growth in agriculture sector. In the span of past 65 years, the dairy sector has
come a long way registering more than 8-fold increase in milk production, from 17 million tons
in 1950-51 to 146.3 million tons at present. In its journey to the top position in the world in
terms of milk production, the sector has witnessed several structural changes in production,
processing and consumption that have been conditioned by the changing socio-economic
environment in the country. With expanding population, growing urbanisation and
increasing purchase power, the demand for milk and milk products is expected to go up. We
need to catch up with the daunting challenge to produce more milk and convert it efficiently
into value added products.
 
To be able to achieve this level of milk production under mounting competition for resources
from alternate economic activities, there has to be revolutionary changes in the manner of
production, processing and management of dairy sector.
 
Also nowadays, milk from non-bovine species is recognised for the therapeutic value and
nutritive richness. Milk from some of these animals such as goat, sheep and camel is known to
contain innumerable bio active components including bio active peptides, growth factors,
therapeutic proteins etc. These have been reported to possess vital medicinal properties such as
anticancer, anti-diabetic, antiviral etc. Therefore, it is important to investigate the composition
of milk of minor species not only for their basic constituents but also for vital health components
as well.
 
There is increasing interest among the stakeholders for isolation, characterisation, purification,
development of scaled up production processes and utilisation of these components in novel
food formulations. Utilization of the milk produced by these minor species for the development
of ‘specialized’ milk products assumes great importance. 

In this context, Regional Committee on Food & Agriculture, CII Northern Region in association
with National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) Karnal is organising a Conference on “Emerging
Trends in Bovine and Non Bovine Dairy Sector on Friday, 29 July 2016 from 0930 hrs - 1700
hrs at the Conference Hall, CII Northern Region Headquarters, Sector 31, Chandigarh.
Contents of the Conference Conference Chairman
 Therapeutic value of Bovine and Non Bovine Dr A K Srivastava
Milk Director, National Dairy Research
 Skill development and entrepreneurship Institute (NDRI), Karnal, Haryana
development  in the Dairy Sector Venue
 Functional Dairy Foods
Conference Hall, CII Convention
 Industry Perspective Centre, Chandigarh
 Programme Structure

0930 – 1000 hrs Registration

1000 – 1045 hrs Inaugural Session
1100 – 1700 hrs Plenary Sessions

SPEAKERS INVITED
 Dr Suresh S Honnappagol, Animal Husbandry Commissioner, Department of Animal
Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare,
Government of India
 Dr Mandeep Singh Sandhu, IAS Additional Chief Secretary, Animal Husbandry,
Fisheries, and Dairy Development, Government of Punjab & CEO, Punjab Livestock
Development Board
 Mr Mayank Jalan, Managing Director, Keventer Agro Ltd
 Mr Neeraj Kumar, Managing Director, DeLaval Pvt Ltd
 Dr Satender Arya, CEO, Agriculture Skill Council of India
 Dr N R Bhasin, President, Indian Dairy Association
 Ms Neerja Hajela, Secretary, Yakult India Microbiotia and Probiotic Science
Foundation
 Mr R S Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd
(AMUL)
 Mr B Thiagarajan, Executive Director & President, Blue Star Limited
 Dr Harsev Singh, CEO, Reliance Dairy Foods Ltd
 Mr Tapas Chatterjee, Managing Director, SSP Pvt Ltd.\
 Mr Siva Nagarajan ,Managing Director, Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetables Ltd
 Dr N V Patil, Director, National Research Centre on Camel (NRCC), ICAR, Bikaner
 Dr M S Chauhan, Central Institute for Research on Goats (CIRG), ICAR, Mathura
 Dr A K Srivastava, Director, NDRI.
 Mr Atul Mehra, Managing Director, Tasty Dairy Specialities Ltd

Do take advantage of this unique confluence of intellectual and business minds by confirming
your participation and that of your colleagues through the enclosed Registration Form.

I look forward to receiving your confirmation(s).

Yours Sincerely

Rajesh Srivastava
Chairman, Regional Committee on Food & Agriculture
CII Northern Region &
Chairman & Managing Director
Rabo Equity Advisors Pvt Ltd