Palanpur: Shouting anti-government slogans at top of their lungs, milk producers spilled hundreds of litres of milk on road in scarcity hit Harij taluka of Patan district on Monday. They were protesting against low price of milk and non-availability of fodder for their livestock.General secretary of Maldhari Vikas Sangthan, Gujarat, Karan Desai, leading the protest, said, “Neither do we get fodder nor do we get adequate prices for our milk. At the current procurement prices we can hardly maintain the cattle. Government has promised to provide fodder at Rs 2 per kg but it is not made available. Many of us have been forced to migrate from place to place to keep our livestock alive.”The maldharis (cattle rearers) have given an ultimatum to the state government to fulfil their demand or they will launch a statewide agitation. Desai also took a dig at the cooperative dairy management for not accepting their demand and hiking the procurement price.Meanwhile, Dudhsagar Dairy of Mehsana hiked the milk procurement prices by Rs 25 per kg fatThe dairy’s vice chairman Moghji Patel said that the hike will come into force from February 11. With this the milk producers will get Rs 550 per kg fat, against current rate of Rs 525 per kg fat.

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