Verka Growth and Expansion under AAP Government

Updated: 3/22/2025
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Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024

Verka is Brand name of Milkfed (Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers federation limited), launched in 1973[1]

TARGET:

Sales turnover to increase by 100 percent in the next 5 years to reach Rs 10,000 crore total as annouced in September 2022[2]

Growth plans[2:1]

Year Milk Procured(Lakh Litres per Day) Packed Milk sold (Lakh litre packets per Day)
2021-22 19.17 LLPD 11.01 LLPD
2023[3] - 12.01 LLPD
2024[3:1] 20+ LLPD 12.66 LLPD
2026-27 29 LLPD 18.50 LLPD

Expansion in Market

  • Verka Products have been famous in Punjab and neighbouring states but the supply chain was limited

DELHI[1:1]

TARGET: Verka supply to increase from current 30,000 litres to 2 lakh litres per day of Milk to Delhi

  • Initially 100 booths opened in Delhi
  • Punjab Government has signed an agreement with Delhi Government for opening Verka outlets in Delhi

PUNJAB[4]

Dec 2022: 625 booths were approved in 1st phase, Total planned is 1000 new booths in Punjab itself

New Plants

Ludhiana[5]

  • Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann has inaugurated a new facility at Verka Ludhiana Diary
    • featuring automatic Milk reception, processing and packaging capabilities for fresh milk and fermented Products
    • The verka ludhiana plant has a daily milk processing capacity of 9 lakh litres and can handle 10 metric tonnes of butter per day
    • It has been built at a cost of Rs 105 crores

Ferozpur[2:2]

  • New Liquid Milk processing and packaging unit with capacity of 1 lakh liter inaugurated on September 29, 2022

Jalandhar[5:1]

  • New automatic unit for processing and packaging of fermented products (curd and lassi) to be finished by Mid 2024
  • 1.25 LLPD capacity at the cost of Rs 84 crore
  • These plants help in complete coverage of cold chain in milk procurement at village level

Dairy Laboratory

  • New State Central Dairy Laboratory coming up in Mohali at the cost of Rs 8 crore, including Rs 6.12 crore for equipment and Rs 1.87 crore for civil works[5:2]

REFERENCES:

  1. http://www.ndtv.com/punjab-to-increase-milk-supply-from-30000-to-2-lakh-litres-to-delhi-bhagawant-mann-3446656 ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. https://www.babushahi.com/view-news.php?id=152788 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=196908 ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=156397 ↩︎

  5. http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/milk-butter-plant-to-expand-verkas-reach-443338 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

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