Sep 30, 2020
Keventer has launched its 9th bulk milk collection centre (BMC) in Vidyasagar Industrial Park at Kharagpur, West Bengal. The company has further plans to open more such centres in the coming months to increase its supply chain.
According to the company’s spokesperson, the city-based FnB major Keventer Agro that owns the popular dairy brand Metro, is expanding its fresh milk collection centres in West Bengal. This expansion project is in a bid to raise its processing capacity from 2.5 lakh liters to 4 lakh liters per day.
With this initiative, Keventer Agri having two dairy brands Metro Dairy and Keventer Milk has reached milk procurement capacity of 1,70,000 litres per day (LPD). The total capex in the 9 milk collection centers is about Rs. 6 crores across West Bengal.
The centers now cover five districts viz… Burdwan, Hooghly, Nadia, Midnapur and North 24 Parganas and operates with 18,000 farmers working on a daily basis.
“We have witnessed an increase in household consumption of dairy products and believe that the trend will continue even when normalcy resumes. In such a scenario, having a network of collection centres is an important step for creating an eco-system where the company can play a significant part in the states dairy space and be ready to meet the consumer demand”, Keventer Agro chairman and managing director, Mayank Jalan stated.