Category: COMMERCE & MANAGEMENT BLOG

According to the United Nations annual hunger report, India is having highest number of hungary people in the world. During the year 2014-15, their number was 194 million in India this fact has been revealed in the UN body Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its report titled “State of Food Insecurity in the world 2015”. At global level, number of hungary people in the year 1990-92 was one billion which came down to 795 million in 2015.

In India number of such people in the year 1990-92 was 210.1 million which came down to 194 million in 2015 and thus rate of reduction remained very slow. Though the number has come down, but 194 million is quite alarming inspite of many social programmes to fight hunger and poverty.

As compared to India, the reduction in hungary people in china was much better. During the year 1990-92, number of such people in China was 289 million which came down to 133.8 million in 2014-15 and hence number reduced to more than 50% as against India’s reduction rate of around less than 10%.

Even after 68 years of independence, the number of hungary people in India is so high which is matter of great concern. These figures are eye openers for govt. and calls for suitable policy initiative to curve this social problem.

Amul is a pride name in co-operative sector known worldwide for milk and milk products. Owner of Amul is Gujrat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) Anand, Gujrat. Its turnover crossed Rs.20,000 crore and went to Rs.20,735 crores during financial year ending 31.03.2015 with a growth rate of 14.28% over previous year. This turnover of Amul is more than the combined sales of its three viral companies in food business i.e. Nestle, ITC and Hindustan Uni Lever for the year 2013-14.
Out of this turnover, around 35-40% comes from various values added products and rest from liquid milk. This turnover from milk was 80-90% of the total 5 years ago. There is an increase of 25-35% in items like Tetra pack milk, Dahi, Butter, Milk based beverages and Ice-Creams. Products preferred by youth are aggressively in demand and adds to increase in turnover. Some of the products like Amul Cool, Apric Ice-Creams, Amul Pro, and energy drink stamina are in great demand from youth. Some of these products have been recently launched in metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai. They are to be launched in other metro cities looking to their demand.
Present managing Director Sh. R. S. Sodhi deserves complements for this rare achievement of increasing turnover to this level and bringing name to cooperative sector in the country.