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Aavin plan to raise milk output

Syed Muthahar Saqaf

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Revving up: District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union office. —

TIRUCHI: Tiruchi District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (Aavin) has drafted special programmes to step up daily milk production to four lakh litres by next year.

At present, the union procures about 3.06 lakh litres a day from its 650 member-societies in the four revenue districts of Tiruchi, Karur, Perambalur and Ariyalur.

“The Union is moving slowly but steadily towards achieving this target and the various programmes it has planned included increasing milk producer-societies by covering new areas; augmenting the number of milk producing farmers, commissioning bulk milk coolers etc,” a senior officer of the Union told The Hindu.

District Collector and Chairman of the Union T. Soundiah, Aavin GM S. Sundaresan and Deputy Registrar, Dairying, S. Baskaran held discussions in this regard with the secretaries of the primary milk producers cooperative society recently.

The Union has launched a field survey in all the four districts to identify new areas. Some parts of Karur, Musiri, Kulithalai and Perambalur belt have been identified where special efforts will be made to set up societies.

The Union has 650 societies comprising 2.10 lakh members.

Of them, only a little over 50,000 farmers were milk producers. Plans are on the anvil for creating 100 more societies.

The farmers and the societies often find it difficult to transport the milk from far away villages to milk chilling plants. The Union has planned to set up 13 bulk milk coolers (BMCs) in remote parts. The coolers will be commissioned in major societies. About 20 or more small societies functioning in the surrounding areas will be attached to these major societies.

“Already BMCs have been commissioned in at least five major societies including Musiri and Sendhurai”, the official added.

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