MLA and Bemul Chairman Balacandra Jarkiholi addressed reporters in Bellagarve on April 15, 2025. Image source: PK Badiger
Balacandra Jarkiholi said in Bellagarve on April 15: “Last year, the Bellagarve Regional Cooperative Milk Producers Alliance (Bemul) earned a profit of Rs 132 crore last year.
“We did so well that we exceeded our expectations. It was achieved only through careful fiscal management and avoiding unnecessary expenses,” the MLA told reporters.
“Over the previous year, our profit was Rs 6.8 lakh. However, this time, our profit was Rs 1.32 crore. This is due to the absence of corruption management, less funds used by the annual general meeting, rather than less funds carried out by the management committee members and other reform measures for TA and DA,” he said.
“Bemul’s total turnover is Rs 39950 crore. This is 32083 crore more than last year’s turnover. Profits are up about 24%. However, the union will not keep profits for itself. It will distribute them among farmers and reinvest them in strengthening institutions such as building machinery and processing milk, and establishing milk, and establishing milk, and establishing milk, and establishing a whole business, and establishing a whole business in the whole tool, and building a tool can be built and building a tool can be built and building a tool can be built and building a tool can be built and building a tool can be integrated and building a tool can be integrated and building a tool can be integrated and selling it to the institution. The chairman said.
According to him, the profit will be used for the benefits of milk producers, associations, contractors, security personnel.
The union has established a total of 1,002 milk producer cooperatives in the Bellagarve area. Among them, 610 milk producers operate cooperatives. Among them, 160 are women’s society. So far, Rs 62.21 lakh of equity has been collected. The main dairy products in Bellagarve are 1.5 million liters in capacity, and the refrigeration center, Ramadan and Assani are 30,000 liters. Its machining unit has a capacity of 60,000 liters in Raibag. A total of 39 BMC units were established under the central government’s pure milk production and special packaging scheme. The Plexi Pack unit has a daily milk packaging capacity of 80,000 liters.
“As many as 43 new associations were established in the year 2024-25. An average of 2.10 lakh kg of milk is being proved daily. Compared to last year, there has been an increase of 22%. Also, a total of 12,797 cows have been provided insurance facilities at a concessional rate of 75% by the union. ₹1.22 crore has been provided via insurance to the owners of 245 cows that died. Artificial insemination services have been offered to 1,34,138 cows,” he said.
“About 80 lakh litres of milk have been sold from the Plexi Unit to the local market and to the neighboring State of Andhra Pradesh, 3,80,516 litres of ghee have been sold, 41,12,820 litres of curd have been sold, 1,73,746 kg of paneer has been sold, 74,245 kg of kunda has been sold. new 10-kg bucket yogurt sale has started packing and selling 50 to 100 barrels of yogurt every day in the markets in the Bellagarve district and neighboring state of Goa.”
The association has released buffalo milk to the Mumbai market, selling 5,000 liters of milk per day.
Last February, 2.5 million buttermilk packaging was provided to Saundatti Sri Yallamma Temple.
Save Rs 252 crore per year.
The union is looking for land, establishing a large dairy near a riverbed or dam, and entering the state road. “We plan to build a high-tech giant dairy product at the price of new technologies at a cost of Rs 35 billion,” the chairman said.
“The Karnataka government has not issued Rs 90 crore production incentives to farmers,” he said.
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