Pelwatte Dairy ensures resilient production, operations and growth amid challenges

The Dairy Industry like many other industries had to face the pandemic and its impacts.

Pelwatte Dairy Industries has shown resilience during the pandemic and its effects along with other challenges. The fluctuations in milk production, difficulty in transportation and logistics, disruption in the supply chains, worker shortage in the factories and increased production cost were amongst the many problems faced.

“The lockdown imposed for the third wave wasn’t as challenging as the ones before. Our management and superiors had put effective measures in all processes and functions to operate in unexpected circumstances and crisis situations,” Eranda, a dairy development executive at Pelwatte Dairy Industries said recently.

“The operational process has been decentralized giving middle and lower management the necessary training and tools to ensure smooth continuity of business operations in any such instance. Our experiences during the first lockdown took us through a learning curve, he said.

“The Dairy Industry, like many other industries had to face the pandemic and its impacts. The lockdowns and travel restrictions put forth in place have impacted the industry at large. Yet the ability to be resilient to the pandemic and other market shocks across the value chain has placed Pelwatte to be a front runner in the local dairy industry. Pelwatte Dairy Industries, as a company of immense social and economic value, has been offering its unwavering support towards dairy farmers, their families and the overall national economy,” he said.