State’s milk cooperative movement turned a new chapter recently by getting its first-ever Milma Bakery and Confectionary unit that will manufacture a variety of value-added products, including dark chocolates, within the State.
Dairy Development and Animal Husbandry Minister J. Chinchurani opened the facility near Chalakudy in Thrissur district amid plans to employ local labour and improve Milma’s profit. The unit at Muringoor has come up on the premises of a Milma chilling plant that functioned for 33 years till February last year. It became redundant when Milma’s decentralised system promoted chilling at primary milk co-ops.
The new unit will initially produce pudding cake, vanilla cup cake, milk bread, milk bun, milk rusk and different types of cookies. Milma chocolates, including the dark variety, will also be manufactured at the unit in the near future, according to a press release.
