Monthly Round Up May 2023
Dear CLFMA Members & Industry Colleagues,
Greetings to all our members!
The month that passed by, was quite good and CLFMA is striving hard to give a new push towards delivering more value for diverse stakeholders of the livestock sector.
CLFMA OF INDIA announced its’ 56th Annual General Meeting, 2023 and 64th National Symposium, 2023, which will be held on 18th & 19th August, 2023 at Hotel Le Meridien, Windsor Place Janpath, New Delhi and the process of delegate registration is on.
All members are requested to kindly extend their support by Sponsoring and participating in the said annual event. The Theme of the 64th National Symposium 2023 will be “Livestock Sector: Looking Beyond the Present”. This time, we got confirmation from IFIF, that the Executive Director Ms. Alexandra de Athayde, Executive Director, of International Feed Industry Federation will attend CLFMA’s Symposium 2023. We have also invited and expecting the presence of Ambassadors and High Commissioners of various countries for CLFMA’s Symposium 2023.
Let me give you a glimpse of few of the CLFMA activities for the month of May, 2023:
Representations / Liasioning with Government of India:
On 4th May, 2023 CLFMA sent an additional 5th Feed Additive List to Ms. Alka Upadhyay, Secretary AHD for approval of feed additives to Dr. G. N. Singh with a c.c. to Dr. Gagan Garg and Dr. Amit Mitra.
On 4th May, 2023, CLFMA provided data to Dr. Tarun Kumar Singh, Assistant Commissioner (Fisheries), New Delhi.
On 4th May, 2023, CLFMA sent letter to Dr. O. P. Chaudhary, Joint Secretary (NLM/PC) on the subject request to Government to ban Molasses Export to protect the small farmers of Livestock Industry. The same letter was sent to Ms. Alka Upadhyay, IAS secretary AHD.
On 5th May, 2023, CLFMA sent all the earlier representations letter on the subject type 3 feed to Dr. Abhijeet Mitra with a cc copy to Dr. O. P. Chaudhary for the further follow-up from CLFMA OF INDIA.
Analysis of Animal Feed Industry data provided to GOI. on 16th May, 2023.
Meeting:
On 4th May, 2023, CLFMA Chairman, Mr. Suresh Deora attended the IFIF Meeting.
CLFMA Chairman Mr. Suresh Deora attended Stakeholder Consultation (Industry Association) Meeting through virtual mode for discussion on the preliminary draft of “The Livestock and Livestock Products Importation Exportation Act, 2023 dated 25th May, 2023 at 04:30 pm under the Chairmanship of Shri. G. N. Singh, Joint Secretary (Admin, Trade & IC), DAHD, New Delhi. An Email was received from Dr. Aniruddha Udaykar, Assistant Commissioner (Trade), Department of AH&D, Ministry of Fisheries AH&D, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi on 22nd May, 2023 regarding the same.
On 19th April, 2023, BIS organized Meeting on WebEx on Cattle Feed and Feed Ingredients (FAD5 / Panel 11) at 3:00 pm.
On 31st May, 2023, CLFMA OF INDIA had a networking meeting with USSEC at the CLFMA Secretariat Office, Mumbai. Mr. Jaison John, Team Lead – India, USSEC Mr. Kevin Roepke, Regional Director, South Asia & Sub-Saharan Africa, USSEC, Mr. Suresh Deora, Chairman of CLFMA OF INDIA and Ms. Chandrika Venkatesh, Executive Director of CLFMA OF INDIA were present during the meeting.
Seminar:
On 2nd May’ 2023, CLFMA OF INDIA participated in the National Seminar on Maize and Ethanol at Vanijya Bhavan, New Delhi.
CLFMA Chairman Mr. Suresh Deora, & North Zone President II Dr. Anup Kalra participated in the Seminar and presented CLFMA's perspective.
Stakeholder Outreach:
BIS requested that, CIB (Committee Internal Ballot) ballot under ISO/TC34/SC10: Animal Feeding Stuffs, and requested for comments and voting for project limit date extension request ISO/DIS 30024 “Animal Feeding Stuffs – Determination of Phytase Activity. CLFMA forwarded the same to Technical Committee Head Dr. A.S. Ranade for comments.
We are planning for a Webinar on GST and some more Seminars on Poultry, Dairy & Aqua soon. Intimation of the respective Webinar / Seminars will be communicated by CLFMA Secretariat from time to time in the upcoming months.
CLFMA is relentlessly working towards improving our organizational effectiveness & striving hard towards a sustainable and profitable animal agriculture. Additionally, I would like to solicit your valuable inputs and suggestions to improve further and achieve the newer heights.
Please renew your membership for the year 2023-2024 and stay connected with CLFMA OF INDIA!
I would like to solicit your valuable inputs and suggestions to improve further and achieve newer heights.
Warm regards,
For CLFMA OF INDIA,

Suresh Deora
Chairman
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