Dairy Farmers in Udupi to Launch a Campaign on October 27 Seeking Hike in Milk Procurement Price

Dairy Farmers in Udupi to Launch a Campaign on October 27 Seeking Hike in Milk Procurement Price

Dairy farmers attached to Sahakara Bharathi, a NGO of cooperatives, will launch a postcard campaign by holding a convention of farmers in Udupi on October 27 to urge the State government to hike the milk procurement price by ₹5 a litre. The convention will be held at the Rajangana of Sri Krishna Mutt.

Though the dairy farmers have been urging the government to increase the milk procurement price, the government has not responded positively. Dairy farmers in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts who supply milk to the Dakshina Kannada Cooperative Milk Union Ltd. through 734 milk producers’ cooperative societies on a daily basis are now being paid ₹35 per litre.