Milk Refrigeration Systems for India's Off-Grid Communities
Released on 01/21/2014
(piano music)
(airy tones)
[Voiceover] This is a business that
addresses a real operational problem in the dairy industry.
This will be revolutionary for food security
in areas that don't have reliable electricity.
India is the largest producer and
consumer of milk in the world.
Today dairy processors cannot collect from more than half
of the 300,000 milk producing villages in India.
We have a dairy farmer who's milkin' the cows,
the bacteria starts to grow immediately.
If they don't get that milk chilled
within four hours, the bacteria kills the milk.
India is averaging 6 hours.
Dangerous levels of bacteria.
Everyone in India who buys milk,
knows that they have to boil it.
Which means you're getting rid of all the vitamins
and nutrients that come with that milk.
So you're probably asking, why the hell
don't we chill this milk at the village level?
Well, a traditional milk chiller
requires a dedicated diesel generator.
To maintain these diesel generators,
and to buy the fuel for the diesel generators
makes it economically unviable for the dairy processors
to place these smaller chillers at the village level.
We have developed a thermal storage battery system
that enables dairy farmers in India
to chill milk for the first time without a diesel generator.
The idea of our technology is to decouple
when you get electricity and when you use
that electricity for chilling things like milk.
Of 300,000 milk producing villages in India,
only 120,000 are able to sell
to the organized dairy industry.
When we enable a dairy processor to collect milk from them,
they make three times as much money per liter of milk.
And dairy processors tell us that
they've never seen quality this good.
Over the next five years, the middle class
is gonna be growing by 67%, and they're all
demanding more quality products,
particularly when it comes to food.
But there's a problem of getting food to the market
because of the unreliable power to chill
things like milk, fruits and vegetables.
And that's the market that we're addressing.
The impact will be that these dairy farmers
will make a lot more money in a much more
sustainable way and the consumers
will be drinking much healthier milk.
So the whole ecosystem rises.
(whip cracking)
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