Overview

• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma performed a bhoomi pujan on July 20–21 to kick off a Rs 104 crore project doubling Purabi Dairy’s capacity from 1.5 to 3 lakh litres per day.
• The state rolled out a Rs 5 per litre subsidy for up to 30 litres daily to about 20,000 farmers across 601 cooperative societies, backed by a ₹10 crore allocation for 2025–26.
• North East Dairy Food Limited, the NDDB joint venture, has taken over new units including a 5,000-litre plant in Silchar, 20,000-litre facilities in Nalbari, Barpeta and Bajali, and 5,000-litre plants in Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Bokakhat.
• MoUs with NDDB and Amul underpinned the expansion drive, with plans for additional processing plants in Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat and near Rani to reach 10 lakh litres per day of capacity within three years.
• Complementary measures such as seed funding, sex-sorted semen and crossbreeding support are being paired with the establishment of 4,000 village cooperatives to strengthen Assam’s dairy value chain.