The Tamil Nadu Milk Producers' Welfare Association has urged the state government to take steps to include milk in the daily menu at noon meal centres and anganwadis (covering 70 lakh children) to ensure the procurement of excess milk produced by farmers. If the proposal is approved, the procurement would go up from 30 lakh litres per day to 50 lakh litres.
The hike of Rs five per litre in the procurement price of milk in November last year attracted more farmers to milk production. Five lakh members of the milk cooperative societies are unable to sell the milk. Hence the attempt to sell the cows in other states.
It seems there is no coordination between different departments in the state. Neither ministers nor the concerned officials including the state planning commission are in a position to foresee the demand and supply of milk as a result of more number of families taking to white revolution as a means of earning or source of additional income to the households. Imagination and hard work is missing!
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