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Over the past 7 years, beverage accumulation per crossbreed cattle per time has remained almost static successful the State, astatine a small implicit 7 kg/day/animal.
Between 2018 and 2025, the full beverage yielded successful a time by 1 crossbreed cattle has hovered astir 7.1 kg. It saw lone minimal fluctuation — from arsenic debased arsenic lone 7.03 kg successful 2023-24 to a precocious of conscionable 7.84 kg successful 2024-25, arsenic per the 2025 Basic Animal Husbandry (BAH) statistics.
Farmers, galore of whom sell milk to the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Federation, whose fashionable marque is Aavin, accidental that this is owed to the deficiency of proper feed. “Our cows, which implicit the years person go crossbred owed to the instauration of Jersey bulls, need 400 grams of ore feed (containing food worldly for energy such as protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals) to nutrient a litre of milk.”
“This is apart from the concentrate feed and adust fodder and greenish writer needed to support the carnal live astatine times erstwhile it does not nutrient milk. Farmers person to walk ₹30 as feed and fodder per animal. But as we are incapable to spend truthful much, cows that tin nutrient up to 10 litres of beverage a time are producing lone astir seven litres of beverage a day,” said A.P. Gunasekaran, a veterinarian.
M.G. Rajendran, secretary, Tamil Nadu Milk Producer’s Welfare Association pointed retired that dairy farmers besides had to walk on labour, vaccinations, and treatments. “In neighbouring Karnataka where crossbred cattle produce 10.71 kilograms of milk/day/animal, the authorities provides a subsidy of ₹5/ litre to farmers. Recently, the authorities announced that the subsidy would increase to ₹7/litre. In that State, toned beverage is sold astatine ₹46/litre enabling the authorities to wage the husbandman well. However, that is not the lawsuit successful Tamil Nadu. We get a subsidy of ₹3/litre and milk is sold astatine ₹40/litre,” he said.
According to Basic Animal Husbandry (BAH) statistics, Tamil Nadu has mislaid country nether fodder crops, portion Karnataka has improved its coverage. In 2018-19, Tamil Nadu had 48,000 hectares nether fodder crops. This has present been reduced to 35,000 hectares successful 2025. In Karnataka, it has gone up from 71,000 hectares to 90,000 hectares during the aforesaid period.
A beverage manufacture adept said that Aavin was started based connected the Amul model. “The Karnataka federation studied Tamil Nadu’s exemplary and implemented that. Now they person overtaken america successful presumption of production.”
Earlier, Aavin utilized to provide subsidised veterinarian services. That has stopped now. Without taking efforts to nutrient much milk, Aavin continues to make infrastructure to process milk, helium said.
During the past budget, the beverage large had the capableness to process astir 50 lakh litres of milk. At present, Aavin procures lone 30 lakh – 35 lakh litres of milk/day. “If Aavin needs to past and thrive for the involvement of the implicit 9 lakh beverage pouring farmers, the Amul exemplary needs to beryllium revived,” helium emphasised.
