Source:webindia123.com
Minister for Rural development and Planning and Dairy Development K C Joseph today said that the Milk production in hill area sector is remarkable and following this Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation ( MILMA ) has opened their new unit at Sreekandpuram in this district, today. The Minister said this after inaugurating the silver jubilee of Hill area dairy production and at the open of new unit.
He said, ” if this pace of dairy production is continued in coming days, there is no need for the purchase of milk from nearby States at the end of this year”. Mr Joseph also assured that government would provide modernized machines to the hill area Dairy farmers to achieve more production. The government and Hill area development Dairy farmers have jointly set up the new building of MILMA at Sreekandapuram,at an estimated cost of Rs 13.1 crore. For the last five years, the milk production has marked 34 per cent of growth. Before that the State had purchased 8 lakh litres of Milk every day from nearby States and it is reduced to two lakhs liters per day. The UDF government has revised the pension of Dairy farmers to Rs 750 recently.
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