Punjab dairy farmers on Saturday threw milk on roads near milk processing plant in Mohali as part of their protest against the “apathetic” attitude of state government towards their demand of raising the milk procurement prices.
“Punjab government owned Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited (Milkfed) has not raised milk procurement prices from farmers for the last one year, though it has been giving higher price to an NGO in Rajasthan for procuring milk,” Progressive Dairy Farmers’ Association President Daljit Singh today said.
Punjab dairy owners are getting Rs 360 per kg fat from Milkfed while it is offering Rs 400 per kg fat to NGO in Rajasthan for sourcing 50,000 litre of milk per day, Singh alleged.
Agitated dairy owners said that they would launch their protest march at various parts of the state including Moga, Sangrur, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Jagraon and Ludhiana to press the state government to raise rates.
“Despite the fact that our input cost has gone up substantially along with incidental cost like bank interest, our procurement prices have not been raised,” Singh said.
According to dairy farmers, Milkfed has been giving a raise of 20 per cent per annum in milk procurement prices starting 2007 to 2010.
Notably, Milkfed had raised retail rates of milk thrice by Rs one per litre during the past one year. Milkfed procures around 9.5 lakh litres of milk per day from large and small dairy farmers across the state for processing.
Hello Punjab Dairy cooperative,
I am Padma Tekumalla. I used to study at SNDT university Bombay. I read that you used to have milkcooperatives that take milk to local stores and sell. You should tell Punjab governor to bring Walmart stores to sell your milk for profit instead of throwing away 50,000 litres of milk on the road. They can build storages that have coolers so milkwon’t get spoiled in one day. They an package them and sell them. Why are you not doing this with any other milk company that is already there?
Thank you very much,
Padma Tekumalla.
Hello Walmart,
I read this article just now and I see that India is wasting 50,000litres = 13,333 gallons of milk each day due to no cold storage facility. Is there any way you can help those farmers in India. You can sell that milk all throughout the country as my family is from Andhra Pradesh and milk is very expensive there. Children hardly drink milk there. You can transport this milk from Punjab to Andhra Pradesh in cold storage trucks or package them and sell them in Andhra Pradesh so that Punjab farmers will have money to eat.
Can you do this. You are now becoming an International Company.
Thank you very much,
Padma Tekumalla
Hello Punjab Dairy cooperative,
I am Padma Tekumalla. I used to study at SNDT university Bombay. I read that you used to have milkcooperatives that take milk to local stores and sell. You should tell Punjab governor to bring Walmart stores to sell your milk for profit instead of throwing away 50,000 litres of milk on the road. They can build storages that have coolers so milkwon’t get spoiled in one day. They an package them and sell them. Why are you not doing this with any other milk company that is already there?
https://www.indiancooperative.com/dairy/punjab-dairy-farmers-throw-milk-on-roads/#comment-128
Thank you very much,
Padma Tekumalla.