\nThe plant, located 350 miles away from New Jersey, is home-grown Amul\u2019s first manufacturing facility outside India. The facility has been set up under a tripartite agreement between Amul Dairy, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets brand Amul and New Jersey based NRI businessman Piyush Patel.
\n\u201cAfter receiving Gujarat government\u2019s approval a fortnight back, we have started production of ghee (clarified butter), paneer (cottage cheese) and shrikhand (a sweet dish made of yogurt) at the US plant last week,\u201d said Amul Dairy\u2019s managing director Dr K Rathnam.
\nThe facility spread over three acres set up by Patel with an investment of $9 million has initial capacity of manufacturing 50 tonnes of shrikhand, 100 tonnes of paneer and 200 tonnes of ghee per month.
\n\u201cBased on the response, we will increase ghee manufacturing capacity by 10 tonnes a day,\u201d said Rathnam, adding that in next six months, more products from Amul will be manufactured at the plant. \u201cWe have made the beginning and are presently test marketing the products which will hit retail stores in US anytime now,\u201d GCMMF\u2019s managing director R S Sodhi told TOI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"