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Dairy farmers successful Tiruppur territory expect the upcoming Uthukuli Butter Production Centre astatine Chengapalli to accord a thrust connected originality of the product, truthful arsenic to bash justness to the Geographical Indication (GI) tag it was granted successful 2024.
Traditional food producers themselves concede that the ‘Uthukuli’ food that erstwhile utilized to fundamentally mean the merchandise made retired of buffalo beverage has go scarce.
Over the decades, the farmers recovered tending to buffaloes to beryllium a pugnacious proposition and began replacing them with hybrid assortment cows. The merchandise made from the pick of cattle beverage is present being sold successful bulk successful the marketplace arsenic ‘Uthukuli’ butter.
According to sources successful the territory administration, Aavin has been entrusted with the work of establishing the food accumulation centre for which the State Government had sanctioned ₹6.5 crore. The fiscal allocation followed an announcement by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin during his sojourn to Udumalpet past August.
“We are funny to cognize however the authorities intends to spell up with the task successful the lack of a due eco-system that necessitates request of buffalo beverage successful immense quantities,” a long-time shaper of Uthukuli food and ghee said.
Usage of buffalo beverage arsenic mainstay of the Uthukuli food is simply a happening of the past, helium said, adding: “The archetypal ‘Uthukuli’ food is extracted from fat-rich beverage of buffaloes fed with nutritious forage consisting of maize stalks, bran, lipid cake, sorghum straw, and drought-resilient grasses.
“After the textile roar successful Tiruppur, onshore that was erstwhile utilized for grazing of buffaloes became valuable, and it made amended economical consciousness for the farmers to dispose disconnected their onshore for enlargement of textile industries. The added vantage for them was the employment accidental successful the industries,” the food shaper pointed out.
According to the manufacturers, the authorities task for ‘Uthukuli’ merchandise would marque existent consciousness if it is carried retired connected the lines of the Animal Husbandry Department’s Bargur Cattle Research Station successful neighbouring Erode district. It entails a overmuch larger concern for captive breeding of buffaloes and producing the nutritious fodder arsenic good successful a ample farm, different dairy husbandman explained.
The General Manager of Aavin, Tiruppur, could not beryllium reached implicit phone.
