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Mother Dairy, which hiked beverage prices by ₹2 per litre past month, connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) said determination is nary "intention" presently to further summation the retail terms successful presumption of comfy proviso situation.
Mother Dairy, 1 of the starring caller beverage suppliers successful India, sells astir 55 lakh litre of beverage per time crossed galore States. On May 14, the institution accrued user prices of its liquid beverage variants by ₹2 per litre to partially offset rising input costs.
At a property league successful New Delhi, Mother Dairy president Meenesh Shah said the institution accrued beverage prices past period after a spread of 1 year due to the fact that of the accrued input cost.
About immoderate plans to summation rates further, helium said, "I bash not foresee immoderate increase. But past if determination is immoderate summation successful input outgo and we are successful a concern wherever we are incapable to conscionable our ends, we volition see."
"But, arsenic of now, we person nary volition to summation the user price," said Mr. Shah, who is besides the president of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). Mother Dairy is simply a wholly owned subsidiary of the NDDB.
He asserted that the beverage proviso concern and procurement of beverage from farmers successful the state are comfy now. On concerns related to proviso of fodder successful presumption of India Meteorological Department (IMD)'s forecast of beneath mean monsoon, Mr. Shah said determination should not beryllium immoderate occupation successful the full availability of fodder.
He said determination could beryllium occupation successful immoderate States, but that could beryllium compensated by different parts of the country. Mr. Shah said the country's beverage accumulation is expected to emergence 4-6% this fiscal twelvemonth from astir 250 cardinal tonnes successful the erstwhile year.
The NDDB president noted that the maturation successful beverage accumulation annually is successful enactment with rising depletion and asserted that determination would not beryllium immoderate contented successful gathering this increasing request for dairy products implicit the adjacent 10-15 years.
Mr. Shah said the authorities has taken assorted measures to boost beverage accumulation done betterment of carnal wellness and their productivity. More dairy cooperative societies are being formed crossed the country.
Last month, Mother Dairy had said the "revision successful prices has been necessitated successful presumption of the sustained summation successful husbandman procurement prices, of astir 6% implicit the past 1 year, contempt continued efforts to bounds the interaction connected consumers".
Mother Dairy had said the terms revision represents lone a partial walk done of accrued costs. It passes connected astir 75-80% of its beverage income realisation to farmers. Mother Dairy, commissioned successful 1974, achieved a 17% maturation successful turnover to ₹20,300 crore during FY26 connected amended request for its beverage products and cooking oils.
The institution sells beverage and beverage products nether the 'Mother Dairy' brand. It markets edible oils nether the 'Dhara' brand. Fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen vegetables, snacks, pulps, and concentrates are sold nether the 'Safal' brand.
Mother Dairy owns 9 beverage processing plants and 4 horticulture processing plants. In edible oil, the institution operates done 16 associated plants.
