Combined balance sheets and operating statements were used to develop benchmark financial ratios for dairy marketing … cooperatives. Data from 291 cooperatives were summarized for five types of dairy cooperatives, then by three types and three size …

The paper focuses on Idara-e-Kissan, a vertically integrated cooperative in the dairy sector, which procures fresh milk …, processes it and uses the profits earned in urban milk product markets to provide development services to member farmers. The … milk animal, 9% more milk buffaloes, 6% fewer dry buffaloes and they used three times more milk fat-enhancing cottonseed …

The advent of rBGH (recombinant bovinegrowth hormone) has spurred the establishment of anorganic milk industry. The …. From thisapproach, organic milk consumption challenges rBGHfrom a ``Not-in-my-Body'' or ``NIMB'' politics of refusal …

Canada’s system of dairy supply-management restricts the availability of milk to Canadian households, food processors … and restaurants to maintain a higher price for milk and dairy products than Canadians would otherwise pay. The immediate … beneficiaries of the system are Canadian dairy farmers who own production “quotas,” without which any significant milk production is …