Newskarnataka – Mangalore

Mangalore: The Board of Directors of Dakshina Kannada Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (DKMUL) has decided to increase the base price and incentive offered on milk to the producers by Rs 1.50 with effect from Friday February 21.

DKMUL President Raviraj Hegde informing the media personnel during a press meet in the city on Thursday February 20 said that the milk producers in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts will get a remuneration of Rs 31 per litre milk (excluding Rs 4 subsidy from the government) that is sold to the co-operative societies.

He also notified that DKMUL has revised the base price by 50 paise and made it Rs 25 now. The incentive or the support price offered to the milk producer which was Re 1 earlier, has been hiked and made Rs two per litre now. The dairy farmers, who used to get Rs 25.50 per litre of milk, will get Rs 27 including the base price and incentive, and a subsidy of Rs four from the government,

The Board has also decided to increase the remuneration offered to the co-operative society staff by 20 paise per litre. The DKMUL will spend an additional Rs 1.5 crore due to increasing the price offered to milk producers, in next two months. With the price revision, the difference between the price of milk sold and purchased will be reduced, he said.

With regards to the deficit of Milk in the state Raviraj Hegde said that although milk production has been increased still there has been milk deficit in the district. The district produces 2.6 lakh litre of milk as against the requirement of 3.5 lakh litres. “A mega convention of Nandini milk producers will be held in Bangalore on February 22 and 1,500 milk producers from the district will take part in the convention.

Board of Directors K Seetharam Rai, Monappa Shetty Ekkaru, Managing Director B V Sathyanarayana and others were present during the meet.