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Kolkata: A number of Mother Dairy outlets in the city reeled under acute short supply of packaged milk on Friday. We used to have a supply of around 45 crates of packaged Mother Dairy milk on a regular basis. "Amul has been purchasing milk at a much higher rate from the milk farmers. The total number of milk farmers in the state is around 10,000 and Mother Dairy used to purchase 2 lakh litres of milk from them daily. Executive Council member of West Bengal Veterinary Council Gurucharan Dutta said: "Mother Dairy is the pride of Bengal and it is our responsibility to normalise its function.".