The reduction in procurement price of milk by the district milk unions has come under the scanner of the newly elected State government with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday asking the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) to put any downward price revision on hold.
While Bengaluru Milk Union Ltd. (Bamul) had reduced ₹1.5 per litre of milk procured from the farmer, Mandya Milk Union Ltd. (Manmul) had cut the price by ₹1 per litre. A few other unions, KMF sources said, were also in the process of cutting down the procurement price when the direction came from the Chief Minister.
In Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru Urban and Ramanagara districts, farmers get ₹34 per litre while it is ₹32.25 per litre in Mandya district. Among other districts, milk producers in Hassan and Shivamogga districts get ₹34.5 and ₹33.71 per litre, respectively.
