Today kapu-meniya.in : Due to Corona virus, milk farmers are facing a 21-day lockdown across the country. Milk sales of cooperatives have come down by around 25 to 30 per cent due to the closure of commercial offices including hotels, restaurants, confectionery. Due to low sales, large cooperative societies in the country are refusing to buy milk from farmers.
Today Milk from farmers is mainly procured by cooperatives as well as private companies. Cooperatives have blamed private companies for the problem that they are not buying from farmers, while private companies say daily workers quit their jobs due to police vandalism and fears of a corona virus infection, while milk Sales are falling, so they have no choice but to close their dairies.
Today Cooperative societies are buying less milk from farmers
Today Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited (RCDFL), one of the largest milk buyers in Rajasthan, has reduced milk procurement by 25 per cent. Vinod Gera, deputy manager of RCDFL, says that before March 15, we used to buy 41 lakh liters of milk a day, but now we have reduced it to 3 million liters. Farmers who were earlier selling milk to private companies have started selling milk to RCDFL, so we have no choice but to refuse the purchase. Dairy owners convert more milk into powder but Gera says it also has a certain capacity. We are sending milk to Uttar Pradesh because we have a powder making plant there. He said that this does not mean that we would buy additional milk and then transport it to the plant.
Today Reduction in demand for milk after lockdown
Today total of 1,90,500 cooperative societies at the village level. According to an estimate, the average purchase of milk from March 1 to March 15 was around 500 lakh liters per day and sales were only about 390 lakhs per day. While daily purchases reached 533 lakh liters on March 30 after seven days of lockdown, sales declined to 330 lakh liters per day.
Today Amul milk sales down by 10%
Today Rupinder Singh Sodhi, managing director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, Amul, admitted that its brand sales had fallen by 10 per cent. Immediately after the lockdown, there was panic and people stored milk for three-four days but thereafter fell by 30 per cent. Although now sales have stabilized slightly but still our sales are down by 10 per cent. He said that it is expected that as soon as summer starts, there will be a decrease in milk production and demand will increase.
Questions raised on government's foresight and policies before implementing lockdown.
Today Kolhapur Milk Union, a large milk company in Maharashtra, has no buyer of 25 per cent of its milk. Out of the 12 lakh liters bought from farmers, 3 lakh is left unsold. DV Ghanekar, the company's managing director, blamed the government's foresight and policies before implementing the lockdown. He said that sweets shops are a big part of our consumers. If chemists and grocery stores are allowed to remain open, we do not understand why the sweets shops are closed?
Today is no plant to convert milk into powder in Jharkhand
Today Jharkhand Milk Federation has not procured milk from farmers since three years of lockdown as the company does not have storage capacity. JMF managing director Sudhir Kumar Singh told Outlook that he offered the state government to buy the leftover milk at a discounted price and distribute it among the poor and migrants but the government did not accept the offer. He said that since there is no plant in Jharkhand to convert milk into powder, I have sent two milk tankers ie 20,000 liters of milk to Lucknow. He said that it is really sad that thousands of migrant workers are starving and the remaining milk is not being delivered to them.
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Today Milk from farmers is mainly procured by cooperatives as well as private companies. Cooperatives have blamed private companies for the problem that they are not buying from farmers, while private companies say daily workers quit their jobs due to police vandalism and fears of a corona virus infection, while milk Sales are falling, so they have no choice but to close their dairies.
Today Cooperative societies are buying less milk from farmers
Today Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited (RCDFL), one of the largest milk buyers in Rajasthan, has reduced milk procurement by 25 per cent. Vinod Gera, deputy manager of RCDFL, says that before March 15, we used to buy 41 lakh liters of milk a day, but now we have reduced it to 3 million liters. Farmers who were earlier selling milk to private companies have started selling milk to RCDFL, so we have no choice but to refuse the purchase. Dairy owners convert more milk into powder but Gera says it also has a certain capacity. We are sending milk to Uttar Pradesh because we have a powder making plant there. He said that this does not mean that we would buy additional milk and then transport it to the plant.
Today Reduction in demand for milk after lockdown
Today total of 1,90,500 cooperative societies at the village level. According to an estimate, the average purchase of milk from March 1 to March 15 was around 500 lakh liters per day and sales were only about 390 lakhs per day. While daily purchases reached 533 lakh liters on March 30 after seven days of lockdown, sales declined to 330 lakh liters per day.
Today Amul milk sales down by 10%
Today Rupinder Singh Sodhi, managing director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, Amul, admitted that its brand sales had fallen by 10 per cent. Immediately after the lockdown, there was panic and people stored milk for three-four days but thereafter fell by 30 per cent. Although now sales have stabilized slightly but still our sales are down by 10 per cent. He said that it is expected that as soon as summer starts, there will be a decrease in milk production and demand will increase.
Questions raised on government's foresight and policies before implementing lockdown.
Today Kolhapur Milk Union, a large milk company in Maharashtra, has no buyer of 25 per cent of its milk. Out of the 12 lakh liters bought from farmers, 3 lakh is left unsold. DV Ghanekar, the company's managing director, blamed the government's foresight and policies before implementing the lockdown. He said that sweets shops are a big part of our consumers. If chemists and grocery stores are allowed to remain open, we do not understand why the sweets shops are closed?
Today is no plant to convert milk into powder in Jharkhand
Today Jharkhand Milk Federation has not procured milk from farmers since three years of lockdown as the company does not have storage capacity. JMF managing director Sudhir Kumar Singh told Outlook that he offered the state government to buy the leftover milk at a discounted price and distribute it among the poor and migrants but the government did not accept the offer. He said that since there is no plant in Jharkhand to convert milk into powder, I have sent two milk tankers ie 20,000 liters of milk to Lucknow. He said that it is really sad that thousands of migrant workers are starving and the remaining milk is not being delivered to them.
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