Banas Dairy

Banas Dairy
Company typeDivision of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation
IndustryMilk and milk items
Founded1969
HeadquartersPalanpur, Gujarat, India
Key people
Shankar Chaudhary (Chairman)[1]
Bhavabhai Rabari (Vice Chairman)
Shri Sangramsingh R Chaudhary (I/C MD)
RevenueIncrease INR₹ 18,255 crore (2021–22)
OwnerGujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Ministry of Cooperation, Government of Gujarat
Number of employees
5000
Websitebanasdairy.coop

Banas Dairy (Gujarati: બનાસ ડેરી) (Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur) is a division of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation which is under the ownership of Ministry of Cooperation, Government of Gujarat based in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat, India[2] and is Asia's largest milk producer.[3] It was founded in 1969, in accordance with the 1961 rule of the National Dairy Development Board under Operation Flood. Galbabhai Nanjibhai Patel played an important role in the foundation of the dairy.[1] It is headquartered at Palanpur.[4]

Banas Dairy collects an average of around 5[5] million liters of milk every day. In winter, milk collection increases to 7.6 million liters of milk every day,[6][7] the highest collection rate in Asia.[8][citation needed]

The company's products are marketed by Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Anand.[9] and it is currently largest member union of the latter.[10]

Banas Dairy has 0.18 million shareholders, which are spread across 1,450 cooperative societies.[citation needed] Till year 2014 it was procuring milk from more than 0.35 million milk producers of Banaskantha district of Gujarat and measuring approximately 3.3 million liters of milk per day in Gujarat state.[10]

  1. ^ a b "History made; Bhatol ousted from Banas dairy". 28 December 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. ^ "India's largest dairy company plans to double its output in ten years | IUF UITA IUL". cms.iuf.org. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Gujarat's Banas Dairy is Asia's No.1 in milk production". 3 October 2008.
  4. ^ "Gujarat's largest dairy distributes Rs 1,650 cr additional profit to its members". Deccan Herald. 2022-07-13. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  5. ^ Shankar Chaudhary (15 January 2018). "National Geographic Super Factories: Banas Dairy (Hindi)" – via YouTube.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Banas reference4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Banas Dairy to pay Rs 1,144 crore to 3.5L milk farmers | Rajkot News - Times of India". The Times of India. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Banas reference2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "About Us (BanasDairy (Amul))". banasdairy.coop. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  10. ^ a b "Banas Dairy's First Plant in NCR". www.businesswireindia.com. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2021.