Mom Dairy has determined to hike milk costs by ₹2 per litre in Delhi-NCR market with impact from Tuesday, citing rise in enter prices.
That is the fifth spherical of hike in milk costs this yr by Mom Dairy, one of many main milk suppliers in Delhi-NCR with volumes of greater than 30 lakh litres per day.
Mom Dairy has elevated the costs of full-cream milk by ₹2 to ₹66 per litre, whereas toned milk fee has been revised to ₹53 per litre from ₹51 per litre.
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Double-toned milk fee has been elevated to ₹47 per litre from ₹45 per litre.
Mom Dairy has determined to not elevate costs of cow milk and token (bulk vended) milk variants.
The hike in milk costs will hit family budgets.
Mom Dairy attributed the hike in costs to extend within the firm’s procurement value of uncooked milk from dairy farmers.
“It’s an unprecedented yr for the dairy trade. We’ve got been witnessing a big enhance in demand of milk and milk merchandise from each shoppers and establishments, even after festivals. Alternatively, procurement of uncooked milk has additionally not picked up after Diwali as was anticipated,” the corporate mentioned.
The procurement costs of uncooked milk have gone up by about 24 per cent during the last yr on account of increased enter prices and heatwave circumstances, it identified.
“This stress on the uncooked milk costs is being felt throughout the trade, placing strain on the patron costs. In our dedication to proceed paying remunerative costs to farmers to ease the impression, we’re severely constrained to revise shopper costs of choose variants of milk in Delhi NCR efficient from December 27, 2022,” Mom Dairy mentioned.
As a accountable organisation, the corporate mentioned it has all the time endeavoured to strike a proper stability between farmers and shoppers. “…subsequently, we have now been passing the elevated enter value to our shoppers partially on choose variants and in a phased method.”
Mom Dairy passes on about 75-80 per cent of costs paid by shoppers to the milk producers.
The corporate has taken a number of spherical of value enhance within the present calendar yr. The final hike was on November 21, when it elevated costs of full-cream milk by Re 1 per litre and token milk by ₹2 per litre in Delhi-NCR market.
Earlier than that, Mom Dairy had in October elevated costs of full-cream milk and cow milk by ₹2 per litre in Delhi-NCR and another markets in North India.
Charges have been raised by ₹2 per litre for all variants in March and August as properly.
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Advertising and marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets milk below the Amul model, can also be a significant participant within the Delhi-NCR market. It sells practically 40 lakh litres per day. Milk output in India, the world’s largest producer, is round 210-220 million tonnes yearly.