Circular economy to boost dairy farmers' income by 20% in 5 years: Amit Shah

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Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) expressed assurance that implementation of the circular system exemplary crossed the state volition summation dairy farmers' income by 20% implicit the adjacent 5 years.

Mr. Shah was addressing cattle rearers associated with Banas Dairy astatine an lawsuit held astatine Sanadar colony successful Gujarat's Vav-Tharad territory to people the inauguration of the dairy's bio-CNG and fertiliser works and the ground-breaking of its beverage pulverization plant.

He praised Banas Dairy's absorption for successfully processing a exemplary for a circular system successful the dairy sector, which includes generating other income for farmers done assorted means, specified arsenic converting cattle dung into biogas and bio-fertiliser.

Extra income

Mr. Shah informed the assemblage that helium has brought respective members of Parliament to Banaskantha to recognize the circular system exemplary of Banas Dairy.

"So far, our cooperative dairies person received immense occurrence successful procuring beverage from farmers and giving backmost the income generated from selling beverage products. Now, the clip has travel to absorption connected the circular economy. You volition get your stock from the income generated by the dairy by selling biogas and fertiliser produced from cattle dung procured from farmers," helium said.

A factual program for the implementation of this circular system exemplary crossed the state would look from the gathering of MPs successful Banaskantha the aforesaid evening, the Minister said.

Global dairy products

Mr. Shah besides informed the gathering that chairpersons and managing directors of each the large cooperative dairies volition sojourn Banas Dairy successful January 2026 to recognize much astir the initiatives taken by the dairy, considered Asia's largest dairy with a turnover of ₹24,000 crore.

"Apart from the accustomed beverage products similar paneer and curd, determination are galore products that are successful request crossed the globe, but they are not produced successful India. If we absorption connected those products, dairy farmers tin gain other income," helium said.

Mr. Shah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has created a strategy wherein dairies volition get the required concern and exertion to follow this circular system model, which besides includes leather accumulation from the fell harvested from the cattle that died naturally.

White Revolution 2.0

"Our authorities has created 3 cooperatives for the agriculture assemblage and 3 for the dairy sector. I privation to guarantee you that the circular system volition summation dairy farmers' income by 20% successful the adjacent 5 years," helium said, adding that the Centre has done elaborate readying to instrumentality the circular system exemplary successful the dairy sector.

He expressed assurance that targets acceptable by the Prime Minister nether the 'White Revolution 2.0' inaugural volition beryllium achieved done corporate efforts.

Mr. Shah praised women dairy farmers for their publication and efforts successful strengthening the assemblage successful this arid portion of Gujarat.

"Women dairy farmers of this portion person sent a connection to NGOs astir the satellite that advocator for women's empowerment. Without immoderate agitation, you worked hard to make a strategy wherever your net are deposited straight into your slope account," helium noted.

Published - December 06, 2025 07:51 p.m. IST

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