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Kolhapur: Farmer organizations have threatened to stop supplying milk to bigger cities, especially Mumbai, if the state government fails to intervene in the falling milk procurement prices. "Currently the market rate for milk is around Rs32 per litre to Rs35 per litre. "On one hand the central government says that it aims to double the income of farmers, for which it is stressing on the need for the farmers to take up allied activities such as milk production. Dairy operators cited pilling up of milk powder stocks as the reason owing to the lack of markets. According to the primary estimates, around 40,000 tonnes of milk powder is lying unsold with the manufacturers..