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Higher milk procurement

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation has drafted an elaborate action plan for the next financial year which envisages average milk procurement to reach 5 lakh kg per day from 4.5 lakh kg per day at present, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha said here on Friday.

He said the increase in procurement had been made possible thanks to enhancement in the milk purchase price by the Government cooperative societies.

The Minister said the Government had issued white cards to the dairy farmers who had been regularly selling their milk to Government societies during summer and winter for the past three years.

Such card holders were being offered a Rs. 1 lakh loan without security for the purchase of milch animals at eight per cent interest and Rs. 12 crores had been availed of by milk producers as financial assistance to purchase 5,000 animals.

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