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The Tamil Nadu Milk Producers Welfare Association connected Friday (June 12) demanded that the State authorities hike the beverage procurement price arsenic promised successful the TVK predetermination manifesto.
Association president R. Rajendran said that presently the authorities provides ₹38 a litre of cattle beverage and ₹47 a litre of buffalo milk. Over the past 3 years, fodder prices accrued 100%. Owing to the substance terms hike, the terms of the 70-kg fodder container roseate by ₹250 implicit the past 2 months. This wounded dairy farmers successful agrarian areas, helium said.
In the TVK predetermination manifesto, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay had mentioned expanding procurement prices to ₹44 for a litre of cattle beverage and to ₹60 for a litre of buffalo milk.
The Madras High Court had ordered to supply an acknowledgement transcript to dairy farmers and settee the currency for beverage astatine the Aavin cooperative societies. But this bid was yet to beryllium complied with. The State authorities should enforce the tribunal bid to assistance the farmers, Mr. Rajendran added.
As for prime tests, Mr. Rajendran said Aavin presently followed the Modified Richmond Formula (MRF) norms portion procuring beverage from farmers, due to the fact that of which dairy farmers were suffering a nonaccomplishment of ₹65.50 crore a year. He demanded that Aavin travel the Bureau of Indian Standards norms instead.
Moreover, the authorities should supply subsidy of 75% for insuring cattle and present an security strategy that ensures compensation successful lawsuit of cattle death.
Demanding peculiar funds for Aavin owed to gross nonaccomplishment sustained implicit the past years, Mr. Rajendran said that during the tenure of the erstwhile DMK government, ₹3 was reduced per litre of Aavin milk. Due to this terms simplification Aavin mislaid astir ₹1,500 crore implicit the past 5 years.
The government, arsenic such, should compensate Aavin for its loss. Likewise, from November 2023, the incentives provided to dairy farmers are mostly converted into shares of the Aavin union. “This is not acceptable, and this should beryllium stopped,” Mr. Rajendran added.
