Covid-19: Milk supply chain disrupted in Maharashtra

Out of 1.19 crore litre every day milk output in the Condition, forty seven lakh litre is remaining unsold putting milk producer farmers under immense distress. Farmer organisations have demanded that the Condition government will have to present monetary support to milk producers.

The Condition has about forty six lakh milk producer farmers and milk dairies which ordered milk at ₹33-34 litre have minimized the procurement cost to ₹18-19 for each litre immediately after the Covid-19 outbreak.

“About 86 lakh litre milk is sold in pouches. But because of to lockdown, this promote has occur down to 67 lakh litre for each working day. The Condition government is purchasing five lakh litre milk to support farmers but still, there is forty seven lakh litre excess milk. This has impacted procurement cost and has included immense load on farmers” stated former MP and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS) leader Raju Shetti.

A cow milk producer farmer bears the price tag of about ₹27-28 to generate just one-litre milk and the exact is being sold at ₹16-17 for each litre immediately after frequent lockdowns considering the fact that March. SSS will start a just one-working day agitation on Tuesday (July 21) to push for the demand from customers trying to get support to milk producer farmers. SSS had sought a government grant of ₹5 for each litre for farmers.

Milk producer farmers have also opposed the Centre’s final decision enabling milk powder imports under Tariff Fee Quota (TRQ). In accordance to farmers’ organisation fifty, 000 tonne milk powder quota exists in Maharashtra, and the Centre’s final decision would even further deteriorate the disaster.

The Union Ministry of Finance recently exempted imports of milk and product in powder, granules or in other stable types into India under the TRQ quantity. The notification lets 10,000 tonnes of imports for the fiscal with 15 for each cent tariff on imported quantity.