Our Story
Bringing Fresh Back…
Amaya Milk Company was born from a simple belief: Guyanese families deserve access to real, fresh milk; not imported powder, not over-processed UHT, but the real thing from right here.
Amaya Milk Company was conceived during a 2015 visit home, when our founder could not find fresh milk for his newborn daughter, in any Georgetown supermarket. Six years later, he journeyed from Canada to Guyana to fix that. Today, from our factory in West Coast Berbice, we produce fresh milk, chocolate milk, paneer, and more, using fresh cow’s milk from our growing network of local farmers; all packaged in returnable glass bottles and stainless-steel milk cans. We are rebuilding the dairy sector our forebearers had, without adding a single plastic bottle to a country that cannot recycle the ones it already has.
The Name
Why Amaya
Amaya is a Sanskrit name, chosen for its meaning: without guile, without deceit. It is the name of our founder’s eldest daughter; the child he brought home to Guyana in 2015 for her Mundan ceremony, and could not find fresh milk for.
That quest was the beginning of Amaya Milk Company’s incredible journey and thus the Company bears her name. Amaya Milk Company is for her and for every Guyanese child. A Company rooted in the Guyanese tradition of healthy natural products from nature.
Sustainability
Why glass bottles and stainless steel cans
We bottle in glass for retail, and stainless steel can for the cafés and restaurants and institutional kitchens we supply and both come back. Guyana has no recycling infrastructure, and a garbage problem that clogs drains, worsens floods, and overflows our landfills. Every plastic bottle we did not use is one we did not leave behind.
Selling milk in a country we care about means refusing to add to a problem we have watched it live with. So our containers come back, they are washed, sanitized, and they go out again, full of fresh milk from the farms next door.
A Note from the Founder
I grew up on the West Coast Demerara, where milk was always easily accessible. In the eighteen years I lived in Canada, I came home sixteen times; So I feel like I never really left but in 2015 when I brought my newborn daughter home for the first time, and couldn’t find fresh milk for her, it made me realize that the kids growing up in Guyana didn’t have access to this most basic form of wholesome nutrition. This food that I grew up taking for granted. I started asking how could this happen? Why didn’t Guyana have a fresh milk producer?
Someone asked me “Why don’t you do it?”
I thought about that question for years.
Amaya Milk Company is my answer.
It isn’t just a business. It’s a way of rebuilding something Guyana used to have, of supporting our local farmers, and of paying back a debt I have always felt I owed to the country that made me who I am.
— Omkaar Sharma, Founder
Our Journey
How We Got Here
From a single question to Guyana’s freshest dairy brand.
The Question
Someone asks: why don’t you do it?
Incorporation
Amaya Milk Company is incorporated in Guyana.
Work Begins
Our founder returns to Guyana to build Amaya Milk Company.
Production Starts
We started making at paneer first & when our equipment arrived started bottling milk in our now iconic returnable glass bottles
Growing
A growing network of farmers, daily fresh production, returnable glass bottles and steel cans, milk, paneer, cheese and a dairy sector being rebuilt.
We’re here to put fresh milk back on Guyanese tables.
Milk from local farmers, bottled in glass that comes back, from a company rebuilding the dairy sector Guyana used to have.
Find Us Near You →