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Pvt dairies in Maharashtra cut milk procurement prices for farmers

Private dairies in Maharashtra have reduced procurement prices of cow milk from Rs 25-27 per litre to Rs 22-23 per litre.

Gandhian principles help Maharashtra milk co-op beat the odds

At 89-year-old Gosanwardhan Goras Bhandar, operations are fully manual; price offered to farmers is rewarding.

Here’s why this village in Maharashtra does not sell milk

While farmers and leaders in the state agitated for a hike in milk prices earlier this month, residents of Yelegaon Gawali, where most of the households own cattle, have never sold milk.

Covid-19: Why are Maharashtra’s milk farmers angry?

Post lockdowns, milk cooperatives and other buyers have slashed procurement prices, much to the farmers’ chagrin.

Explained: Why dairy farmers in Maharashtra are dumping their milk

As farmers take to dumping their milk on roads and stopping milk supply to urban areas, dairies blame the COVID-19 pandemic and the frequent lockdowns as the reason behind the recent price corrections.

Milk consumption drops 30% amid lockdown; here’s how dairy players will cope up with the loss

As hotels, restaurants, sweet marts and the unorganised tea stalls remained shut across the nation, the milk consumption fell by 25-30% during April and May 2020.

KMF plans to seek ₹867 crore loan to pay for milk procured

Market for several of its products had shrunk during the lockdown

How India can push its dairy cart ahead

The future of dairy in India hinges on modernising infrastructure, and giving the sector a technological face-lift.

Dairy farmers reap benefits of native cow’s milk

Inspite of the lockdown, dairy farmers in some areas of Maharashtra and the neighbouring Karnataka are managing to get ₹60-80 per litre procurement rates for milk from indigenous cows such as Gir, Sahiwal and Kankrej. Milk from Jersey and Holstein cows fetches upto ₹29 a litre.