Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on July 4 (Tuesday) laid the foundation stone for the ‘Amul Chittoor Dairy’ here, where the country’s largest ice cream-making unit would come up.
Amul is expected to pump in ₹385 crore into the defunct Chittoor dairy.
Established as a milk chilling centre in 1969, with a daily handling capacity of 6,000 litres, the Chittoor dairy had transformed into a cooperative unit and touched a peak production capacity of 2.5 lakh litres by 1993. It, however, succumbed to the competition from the scores of private dairies and had to be closed down by 2003.
