India, April 8 -- Mumbai's iconic milk brand 'Aarey', a staple in households for several decades since Independence, is making a comeback. Sans its buffalo sheds and dairy processing infrastructure, the state dairy development department will have milk cooperative Mahananda sell a portion of its milk under the Aarey brand.

"We have written to Mahananda to start processing milk for the Aarey brand in their plant in Goregaon,'' said state dairy development secretary N Ramaswami. "Mahanada processes 80,000 litres of milk a day, and we have has asked them to process an additional 25,000 litres of milk to be sold as Aarey milk,'' said Ramaswami.

While Aarey is a state-owned brand, Mahananda is a milk cooperative run by the state dairy develo...