Madurai: Four private dairy units have hiked the milk price by Rs two per litre, effective on Sunday even with the Milk Agents' Association of Tamil Nadu strongly condemning it.
Tamil Nadu Milk Agents Association President S A Ponnunsamy said in a release that the dairy units, including Heritage, Tirumala, Totla and Jersey have increased the price now, third time in this year.
The price of all varieties of milk, including standardized Milk, Pasturised Milk, fat and vitamanised milk, had been increased by Rs 2 per litre, he said.
A four member committee comprising representatives of the consumers, dairy units, milk agents and an IAS officer, be constituted to monitor hike in Milk price, he suggested.
He said 1.25 crore litres out of the total requirement of 1.5 crore litres daily were supplied by the private players and only 25 lakh litres are supplied by Aavin.
All major milk suppliers in Tamil Nadu were from Andhra Pradesh and the four units who increased the milk price were also from Andhra, he said.
Tamil Nadu Milk Agents Association President S A Ponnunsamy said in a release that the dairy units, including Heritage, Tirumala, Totla and Jersey have increased the price now, third time in this year.
The price of all varieties of milk, including standardized Milk, Pasturised Milk, fat and vitamanised milk, had been increased by Rs 2 per litre, he said.
He said 1.25 crore litres out of the total requirement of 1.5 crore litres daily were supplied by the private players and only 25 lakh litres are supplied by Aavin.
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