Sri Vijaya Visakha Milk Producers Company Limited (Visakha Dairy) was established in the year 1973 under Co-operative Societies Act and commissioned dairy plant at Akkireddipalem, Visakhapatnam with 50,000 LPD handling capacity in the year 1977.
With the introduction of MACS Act in 1995 by A.P State Government, Visakha Dairy was converted in to the said Act in the year 1999 and registered as "Sri Vijaya Visakha District Milk Producers Mutually Aided Cooperative Union Ltd". To fulfil the growth aspirations while retaining cooperative ideology as core principles of governance, Visakha Dairy got converted into Producer Company with effect from 06 Jan 2006 under the name and style of "Sri Vijaya Visakha Milk Producers Company Limited". This could be possible with the initiative taken by Government of India by introducing Companies (Amendment) Act 2002, cooperative form of enterprises known as Producer Companies to be registered under Part IXA of the Companies Act 1956, to enable co-operatives grow & operate on competitive platform.
Visakha Dairy is one of the fastest growing Milk & Milk Products Manufacturing Company having plants at Visakhapatnam and Rangampeta (EG) in Andhra Pradesh. Both the plants are equipped with the State of the Art Technology and are ISO 22000:2018 certified. Presently both the plants have capacity to handle upto 9 Lakh litres per day.
Visakha Dairy manufactures all variants of Dairy Products viz. Fresh Milk, UHT Milk, Curd, Butter Milk, Yoghurt, Milk Shakes, Lassi, Flavoured Milk, Mistidoi, Ghee, Panner, Butter, Skimmed Milk Powder, Sweets, Bakery items etc., and sold in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and Chattisgarh markets. Company crossed turnover of Rs.1400 crore in the year 2020 with CAGR of 12%.
Established Training Centre and imparting training to farmers in the areas of clean milk programme, Nutritional aspects, Fodder requirements and Animal Health Care. Attaching importance to animal health, established 633 Veterinary Health Centres with required infrastructure, staff and supplying the veterinary medicines at subsidised rates. Necessary Infrastructure created to improve breed development thru Artificial Insemination with successful cross breed semen imported from National Dairy Development Board, Goushala. 13 Mobile Veterinary Service Vehicles equipped with medicines accompanied by veterinary doctors extending services covering more than 25 villages every day.
Cattle feed plants with more than 200 MT per day capacity are supplying cattle feed to farmers at subsidized rates. Apart from this corn silage is being manufactured and supplied in bales to farmers.
To improve quality and reduce risk of spoilage, logistics more than 100 Bulk Milk Cooling Centres covering every 10 kms radius have been constructed with total capacity of 900,000 litres.
Milk Powder Plant with capacity of 13MTPD was constructed in the year 1998 to convert surplus milk into Skimmed Milk Powder during flush season.
Constructed Aseptic Packing Station in the year 2001 with a capacity of 30,000 litres per day for UHT milk production and expanded to 3.0 lakh litres per day capacity in 2015. Visakha Dairy enjoys 10% market share in UHT Milk on pan India basis. Visakha Dairy sells Milk, Milk Shakes, Flavoured Milk etc., in UHT segment.
To overcome power crisis and to utilise renewable energy sources, commissioned Solar power plant in record time with a capacity of 1.65 MW capacity at Vizianagaram for captive usage & supplying to APTRANSCO Grid.
Visakha Dairy is giving employment opportunity to more than 1500 employees directly an indirectly another 1000 employees including contract labour.
Visakha Dairy thru its Milk Producers Employees Educational Health and Medical Welfare Trust is extending Medical facilities to farmers and their families at subsidised rates in the 400 bed Modern Hospital, apart from education to the farmer's children, irrigation projects, culverts, kalyanamandapams, bridges, canals etc.
Visakha Dairy is growing consistently and paying highest procurement price to milk producers. Visakha Dairy aims procurement of 10 Lakh litres per day and turnover of Rs.2000 crores by the year 2025.