Summary:
Dairies were supposed to pay a procurement price of Rs 25 per litre, of which Rs 5 was to be reimbursed to them by the government. Due to the slow pace of disbursal, dairies have again started paying farmers Rs 20 per litre. Rajiv Mitra, managing director of Govind Milk and Milk Products, said this was the optimum amount dairies could pay. After a series of protests in Maharashtra last year over the low procurement price of milk, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had announced a subsidy of Rs 5 per litre for dairy farmers. A group of dairy owners recently wrote to the state government and expressed their inability to pay anything more than the current rate of Rs 20 per litre..