An ice-cream making plant set up by the Hassan Milk Union was inaugurated here on Wednesday.
The plant, with a capacity to handle 10,000 litres a day, manufactures over 85 varieties available in the market in the price band of ₹5 to ₹40. The unit was set up with an investment of ₹50 crore, in the dairy complex on B.M. Road here.
Hassan Milk Union chairman and JD(S) leader H.D. Revanna inaugurated the plant. He flagged off a truck designed to carry ice-cream products to retailers. “This is the best ice-cream making plant in south India. We have procured high-quality automotive machinery from Italy,” he said.
The milk union has got into an understanding with Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) to supply 5,000 litres of ice-cream daily. “Of the 10,000 litres of ice-cream produced every day, 5,000 litres will go to GCMMF with the brand name Amul. The remaining will be released to the market,” Mr. Revanna said.
The chairman said the union has proposed another unit at ₹120 crore where milk could be filled in bottles and flavoured milk in small packs. “We are procuring machinery with the capacity to fill 30,000 bottles an hour. The proposal has been submitted to the Karnataka Milk Federation. Tenders will be floated soon,” he said.
The union recorded a turnover of ₹ 1,200 in the financial year of 2017-18 with a net profit of ₹5 crore. “We have decided to return ₹2.5 crore of the profit to milk producers by increasing procurement price by ₹1 per litre. Farmers would get ₹25.5 per litre from March 15,” he said.
