The Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Milma) is gearing up to offer its milk powder brand by launching a mega powdering unit at Moorkanad near Valanchery in Malappuram district. The unit being set up in 12.5 acres will be the State’s first and only milk conversion factory.
Milma officials hope to launch the unit by March next year. When the ₹100-crore facility becomes functional, it will be Milma’s largest single project in the State. It will be able to convert one lakh litres of surplus milk every day. If stretched, the unit can process up to 1.30 lakh litres.
Milma’s tiny powdering unit in Alappuzha was closed down about a decade ago. However, the federation badly felt the need for a powdering unit during the first COVID-19 lockdown, as thousands of litres of milk could not be sold. When the powdering units in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka refused to take milk from Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had to intervene and get 50,000 litres of milk processed at an Erode plant with the support of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.
