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Nobody wants to take the risk of being seen with plastic and people fear using above 50 microns too. Even if state permits above 50 microns plastic for khoa, we will face extreme difficulty in finding it, especially with all the required details printed on it,” said Thakur.The use of above 50 microns plastic will increase the product’s cost by Rs20-30. “Farmers in and around Seoni are not producing khoa as the plastic they would use is not acceptable. Uncertainty over use of plastic has paralysed the city’s 80-year-old khoa market which has been supplying the dairy product to several sweet stores in the region. “Farmers and residents of many villages in Maharashtra and neighbouring states manufacture khoa for us..