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Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development J. Chinchurani connected Wednesday inaugurated the State-level celebrations of National Milk Day organised by Milma wherever she recalled the immense services of Verghese Kurien, whose efforts fostered the maturation of the country’s dairy assemblage and ensured the fiscal information of countless farmers. She highlighted Milma’s captious relation successful the State’s dairy growth, which has resulted successful a crisp summation successful some beverage accumulation and procurement, guaranteeing a accordant livelihood for dairy farmers implicit the past 45 years.
“Milma has ever prioritised the payment of dairy farmers by providing further incentives, cattle subsidy, and different payment schemes,” the Minister noted. She further added that successful the past fiscal year, Milma returned 92.5 percent of its profits to dairy farmers done assorted payment schemes and incentives.
Minister J. Chinchurani further elaborated connected Milma’s operational success, stating that the cooperative has transformed into a salient organisation with an awesome yearly turnover of ₹4,327 crore. She highlighted its regular operations, noting that Milma procures astir 1.25 cardinal litres of beverage per time and sells astir 1.65 cardinal litres per day. Furthermore, the Minister revealed a important accomplishment that Milma has recorded a 14 percent summation successful beverage procurement from April to September this year, which is simply a record. Following the Minister’s address, Prof V.K. Ramachandran, vice chairperson of the State Planning Board, delivered the Dr. Verghese Kurien memorial lecture.
