Kolkata: Amul-owned Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation today said it is planning to set up a Rs 250 crore dairy processing plant in West Bengal.
“The new modern plant at Sankrail food park will cost us Rs 250 crore with optimum processing capacity of 15 lakh litres per day,” Amul managing director R S Sodhi said.
The plant, which will come up on 16 acres of land at the food park, was expected to be operational in the next 15 months.
Amul would manufacture fresh milk products, ice cream and beverages in the plant, he said.
Currently, Amul operates three plants in Kolkata on contractual basis with a total processing capacity of 7,25,000 litres of milk per day, Sodhi said, adding milk collection for Kolkata and adjoining markets would be increased from local farmers, which accounts for just one-third of its milk requirement.
