DDL forging ahead with proposed milk plant

(From left) TOPCO’s Managing Director, Ramesh Persaud; DDL’s Government Affairs Consultant, Wesley Kirton; LR Group’s Rami Ofer; and DDL Chairman and CEO, Komal Samaroo, at the press briefing yesterday

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) yesterday announced that the company is currently in search of land to forge ahead with its plan to house the proposed TOPCO milk plant project for commercial scale production of fresh cow’s milk. 

The company needs some 600 acres of land to set up its industrial-style farm according to its Israeli partner LR Group’s, Livestock Project Manager, Rami Ofer. The lands, he explained, will be used to house the buildings for some 500 heifers which will be imported, an administration building, solar panel power grid, and the farm.