Steps are being taken to give an incentive of ₹4 per litre of milk procured from dairy farmers by societies in the State, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development J. Chinchurani has said.
She was inaugurating the newly built P and I headquarters of Milma’s Thiruvananthapuram Regional Cooperative Milk Producers Union (TRCMPU-Milma) at Mannar near here.
"The incentive has retrospective effect from July 2022. It will continue till March 2023. Besides, Milma has given ₹one/litre as Onam incentive for the milk procured in June 2022,” the Minister said, adding that discussions were on to revise the price of milk for the benefit of dairy farmers.