High milk demand in Tamil Nadu pushes private dairies to hike retail prices

A widening spread betwixt the request and proviso of beverage has led to several fashionable brands expanding prices of each variants specified arsenic afloat fat with 6% fat, toned (blue) with 3% fat, and standardised green with 4.5% fat.  

Milk manufacture sources said that determination was a immense request for beverage arsenic definite backstage dairies were procuring more than accustomed successful the State. Farmers too, looking to gain from this, were demanding an increase in procurement price. They were getting astir ₹40 per litre from backstage dairies. This has resulted in retail prices of milk going up by ₹2 oregon ₹3 per litre, shocking consumers.  

Milk manufacture adept M. Muthaiah said determination is simply a quality of ₹16/litre betwixt the terms of Aavin afloat pick beverage and beverage from backstage brands. Aavin’s is priced at ₹60/ litre, which backstage brands outgo ₹76/litre. Aavin paper holders get it at a lesser price. “If they summation the merchantability of beverage astatine the aforesaid selling price, they volition lone extremity up losing more,” helium said.  

T. Sadagopan, President, Tamil Nadu Progressive Consumer Centre, said with the vigor gradually increasing, an summation successful prices of beverage would automatically mean a hike successful prices of buttermilk and allied products. “Already successful galore areas, small shops sell for ₹1 above the MRP. Consumers person nary different spell but to bargain backstage beverage brands since Aavin sells lone 15 lakh litres of beverage a time successful the city,” helium said.  

S.A. Ponnusamy, Tamil Nadu Milk Dealers’ Employees Welfare Association, alleged that the demand for beverage and the resultant summation successful procurement terms and thereafter the merchantability price, was owed to the failure of the State government. “It is the Dairy Development Department. We dont see an summation in milk production as cattle are precise costly and mean farmers cannot spend to bash so. The DMK authorities shelved the escaped cattle strategy introduced by erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, which has led to the existent sorry state of affairs,” helium alleged.