Farmers in Dakshina Kannada & Udupi to Get An Incentive of ₹2.05 Per Litre: Great Initiative

Farmers in Dakshina Kannada & Udupi to Get An Incentive of ₹2.05 Per Litre: Great Initiative

Farmers in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi will get from Dakshina Kannada Cooperative Milk Producers Union (DKMUL) from October 11 an incentive of ₹2.05 per litre. In effect, the DKMUL will be procuring milk from the farmers at the price of ₹32 per litre. Presently, DKMUL is procuring milk at ₹29.05 per litre.

The union decided to offer the incentive to encourage farmers to provide more quantity of quality milk. The ₹2.05 incentive will be paid for the next three months and it will add to incentive of about ₹5 per litre that the State government has planned to give to the farmers shortly. DKMUL was procuring milk from 68,000 farmers associated with 732 cooperative milk societies in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. While an average of 4.65 lakh litres of milk was being procured every day, in the last two months the average daily procurement increased to about 5.65 lakh litres.