Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Milk Union unable to recover from slump


Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Oct 6: While the other sectors are showing slow signs of recovery after the lockdown ended, Dakshina Kannada Milk Union continues to be under loss. The signs are recovery in near future are totally absent.

The utilisation of milk, curd etc continue at the previous level. There has not been a hike in demand for hotels, restaurants, catering, hostels, canteens and other commercial entities since March. Some hostels which got 3,000 to 4,000 litres of milk per day are now getting less than a thousand-litre of milk. As the monsoon climate is continuing, there is no demand for buttermilk and lassi too. The sale of value-added milk products have gone down, the officials say.

"Before the lockdown, an average of 3.34 lac litres of milk was sold every day, but now the sale is Rs 3.2 lac litres. Curd sale has gone down from 64,015 kg per day to 42,336 kg. Ghee was in high demand in temples like Kollur, Hattiangady, Dharmasthala etc but since March, demand has slumped and it is yet to pick momentum. Milk sale has come down by four per cent and curds by 13 per cent as compared to last year," the staff revealed.

The generation of milk has not been hit. People living in foreign countries and other districts have returned and undertaken dairying, as a result of which the average milk collection has gone up from 3.93 lac litres to 4.55 lac litres in September.

Before lockdown, the excess milk was converted into powder, which had good demand in the past. Now, all the unions are making milk powder, but there is not enough demand. Ice cream units are not placing a demand for milk powder. For making powder, the union spends an additional Rs 11 per litre of milk, and if unused for six months, it will go waste.

President of Dakshina Kannada Milk Union Raviraj Hegde says that in spite of corona, this district union has helped farmers in a better way in milk collection. However, Karnataka Milk Federation is facing problems in marketing the products. He said that there is hope for recovery if commercial consumption increases.

 

  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 07 2020

    This is true for all Sectors ...

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  • Sunil K, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 07 2020

    Lower your prices if you want to survive. Instead of looking for subsidies, strongly petition the government, your MP, MLA, MLC, corporater, DC to lower petrol and diesel prices as this has a direct bearing on your industry.

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  • Deepak, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 07 2020

    Glucose biscuit is added to milk to pass lactometer test. Water is mixed liberally. All this government contains fluoride which makes you timid and docile. In Singapore fluoride is added to public water. In India it is added to milk.

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  • Ajay Rebello, Kallianpur

    Wed, Oct 07 2020

    One brand puts oil to look like cream others put white powder which sticks to vessel when heating coffee becomes pink in colour instead of brown. Its a racket with both producers and consumers both being cheated who gets profit maybe ed should probe this instead of ssr.

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  • Word of Wisdom, Dk

    Tue, Oct 06 2020

    Privatize it..

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Tue, Oct 06 2020

    10s of 1000s of milk was dumped in the rivers across various milk producing areas in India because the acquirement price per liter went to 18, much below the rate of bottled water, why this happened? Because of the mismanagement of the concerned authorities?

    Today what milk/products we are getting in packets is milched of all its nutrients excepting a pure white color to fool the gullible public, it's just a whitener to add to your morning cuppa, nothing else!

    Some people are making heavy profits at the cost of the producers! This profiteering has to be tamed!

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  • Deshbhakt, Mangalore

    Tue, Oct 06 2020

    Double standards. During Lockdown dairies refused to accept milk from cattle keepers. So, these people started to supply it directly to people. Guess what ! A litter of milk directly from a milkman costs Rs. 50/- but it comes with full fat. We can get abundant cream from it to make Ghee at home. We don't want to give up on this luxury of pure milk. Milkman too is happy because dairies pay him Rs. 25/- to 30 only per liter. Why would he sell it to you and make a loss ?

    Dairy is separating three stage of fat from milk. Each type has different pricing. The extracted fat is sold separately. Stop profiting like this, customers will return to you. I agree that there is cost applicable to pasteurizing, refrigerating, packing and transportation but too much profit is greed.

    Athi aase gathigedu.

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