Folks hit by hovering costs have acquired a jolt within the state because the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) has determined to hike the worth of the Nandini model milk and curd by Rs 3. The brand new costs will probably be efficient beginning Tuesday.
The choice was taken at an administrative board assembly of KMF and was authorised by the federal government, stated KMF chairperson Balachandra Jarkiholi. The hike, in keeping with the KMF, is supposed to assist farmers concerned in animal husbandry who’ve been hit by varied issues, together with floods and lumpy pores and skin illness in cattle.
As per the revised costs, toned milk costing Rs 37 per litre will now promote at Rs 40; homogenised toned milk will value Rs 41, up from Rs 38 per litre; value of homogenised cow milk will enhance to Rs 45; particular milk and Shubam model milk will probably be offered at Rs 46 per litre; homogenised standardised milk will value Rs 47; Samruddhi milk will value Rs 51; Santrupthi milk will probably be offered at Rs 53, double-toned milk will value Rs 39 and a kilogram of Nandini curd will now value Rs 48.
The hike, in keeping with Jarkiholi, was important as milk procurement dipped to Rs 78.8 lakh litres per day from 94.2 lakh litres on the finish of June 2022 owing to lack of appropriate costs for milk merchandise, local weather extremes and the lumpy pores and skin illness in cattle. The extra earnings will probably be used to assist affected farmers, he added.
“It’s regarding that many farmers concerned in animal husbandry with one to a few cows are promoting their cattle to neighbouring states… KMF and related federations have caught to cost management as a result of Covid-19 pandemic regardless of a 20-35 per cent enhance in transport, electrical energy and packaging prices,” Jarkiholi stated.
Regardless of the hike, the worth of Nandini milk is cheaper than that of rivals corresponding to Govardhan, Heritage, Arogya and Tirumala. It is usually decrease than that in states corresponding to Andhra Pradesh, the place it value Rs 55 per litre, Tamil Nadu (Rs 40 per litre), Kerala (Rs 46), Maharashtra (Rs 51) and Gujarat (Rs 50), he stated.