Milk plant be set up near Sialkot
Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:30 Bliss
Punjab government has finally approved a grand project of establishing an international standard milk plant near Sambrial-Sialkot with total cost of Rs 250 million in active collaboration with the local private sector for catering the milk and dairy needs of the people and more than 50,000 livestock owners of Gujranwala region, under provincial government's dairy development programme.

According to the official sources, Punjab government has allocated a special grant of Rs 250 million for this project, which would soon be started. He said that 500 milk collection centres would also be established in the near by urban and rural areas, besides, establishing more than 50 chillers (for chilling the collected milk), 50 cure centres in this milk plant's jurisdiction, which would also be helpful to produce 100,000 litres milk daily, 2000 bags of feed for the livestock in these proposed milk plant every month.

They said that 160 veterinary doctors and relevant staff and more than 600 non-skilled staff would also be appointed there. They said that all the advanced facilities would be provided to all the livestock owners through this proposed milk plant collectives enabling them to ensure their milk production on top priority basis. Pakistan Daily (www.Daily.pk)

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