IDF Dairy Innovation Awards 2022 announced
The IDF Dairy Innovation Awards 2022 have been announced at a ceremony that took place on 12 September at the IDF World Dairy Summit in New Delhi, India.
The keynote speaker at the event was Mayank Trivedi, Senior Vice-President & Head of Strategic Business Unit Dairy, Nestlé, and Ashutosh Manohar, South Asia Managing Director of Tetra Pak, delivered the Innovation on Climate Action award.
The awards are an International Dairy Federation initiative designed to celebrate and encourage innovative practices across the global dairy sector.
With a particular focus on sustainability, both in terms of environmental care and positive social impact, the awards seek to stimulate innovative practices that improve the farming and processing of milk and dairy foods.
“Innovation is part of IDF’s DNA from its foundation back in 1903,” explained Piercristiano Brazzale, President of IDF.
“Our mission is to foster the use of science, technology and innovation to ensure the production and processing of milk and dairy products in safe, nutritious and sustainable ways.
“We believe that this award will help innovative practices to be known and shared among relevant dairy actors at a global level,” Brazzale said.
And the winners are...
Innovation in Sustainable Farming Practices — Environment
- National Dairy Development Board, India – Manure Value Chain Model. A system of small familiar biogas to obtain organic fertiliser and gas for cooking. It brings existing technology in the smallholder context to scale by creating a business model that rewards the value of manure for small holder farmers.
Innovation in Sustainable Farming Practices — Animal Care
- Dairycs – Dairycs Meadow-Sense, Israel, a technology that is designed to help the farmer to stay on top of the health and welfare of their livestock.
- National Dairy Development Board, India – e-GOPALA, India, an innovation that allows the farmer to be in control.
Innovation in Sustainable Farming Practices — Socio-Economic
- Mooofarm Private Limited – Mooofarm App, India, an app for digital farming.
Innovation in Sustainable Processing
- Brazzale SpA – Fully automated maturing warehouse 4.0, Italy, a cheese-ripening facility matches new technology with green energy generation.
Innovation in Research & Development — Farming
- Dairycs – Dairycs Meadow-Sense, Israel. Automatic digital farming to increase efficiency and productivity.
- National Dairy Development Board, India – Establishing system of genomic delection for buffaloes in India.
Innovation in Research & Development — Collection & Processing
- National Dairy Development Board, India – NDERP (NDDB Dairy ERP), India, an open source-based ERP integrated with AMCS (Automatic Milk Collection System) software designed to control the milk delivered by the farmers. It provides transparency in milk collection and food safety analysis for payments to small shareholder dairy farmers.
Innovation in Research & Development — New Product Development
- Yili Group – Yili Drinkable Cheese, China.
Innovation in Research & Development — Food Safety
- Yili Group – Construction and application of the ‘Food Safety Risk Analysis Model’ in Dairy Enterprises, China.
Innovation in Research & Development — Consumer Nutrition
- Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (Amul), India – Amul Protein Buttermilk & Amul Protein Lassi.
- Société des Produits Nestlé SA; Nestlé Product Technology Centre Dairy, Switzerland – unlocking iron fortification in dairy to address micronutrient deficiency.
Innovation in Sustainable Packaging
- Wipak UK Ltd – Recyclable Butter Wrap, United Kingdom. Replacing aluminium and polyethylene with an FSC-certified packaging system.
Innovation in School Milk Programmes
- Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers – ‘Federation Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd, India.
Innovation in Climate Action
- China Shengmu Organic Milk Limited – China, for its holistic approach to climate action, targeting some of the most impactful ways to make dairy more sustainable, including reducing enteric emissions, improving biodiversity and carbon sequestration via reforestation.
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