The biggest milk providers Amul and Mother Dairy raised their prices by Rs. 2 each in March, August, and October, resulting in Rs. 6 per litre increase in milk costs this year.
Except in Gujarat, full cream milk and buffalo milk costs have increased by Rs 2 per litre, according to authorities from the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which sells milk and milk based products under the brand name “Amul.”
The revised rate card was disclosed by R.S. Sodhi, managing director of GCMMF. This year, Amul milk prices have increased three times since March.
The previous time the cooperative raised milk prices were on August 17 by 2 rupees per litre, citing an increase in milk procurement costs.
GCMMF gives the milk farmers roughly 80% of every rupee that customers spend on milk and milk-related items. GCMMF primarily sells milk in Delhi-NCR, West Bengal, and Mumbai in addition to Gujarat. Each day, GCMMF sells more than 150 lakh litres of milk, with roughly 40 lakh litres of that total coming from Delhi-NCR.
Following Amul, Mother Dairy’s Officials were notified on Saturday that they had increased the price of full cream milk and cow milk by Rs 2 per litre throughout the Delhi-NCR due to rising input costs.
According to a Mother Dairy representative, the decision was made as a result of the continuous increase in raw material prices over the previous two months.
Due to a multifold increase in various input costs, the dairy industry has been suffering a steady rise in the price of raw milk, which has grown by around Rs 3/kg in just the previous two months. Low rainfall in certain northern states and rising fodder prices have made things worse.
Raghav Chadha, a Rajya Sabha member for the Aam Aadmi Party, criticized the government after Amul raised the price of milk by Rs 2 per litre, excluding Gujarat. He compared the price hike of milk with fuel. He said that milk price is competing with fuel for price rise. The AAP leader attacked the BJP, claiming that the average Indian households continue to suffer from an inattentive government’s blunders.
Chadha added that farmers have been cultivating alternative crops in preference to fodder for several years. Fodder costs have now rocketed to a stunning 25.54% increase in August, a 9-year record. According to him, the area planted in fodder crops decreased by 1.36 lakh hectares in Gujarat alone, the nation’s top milk-producing state, over the past two years.
Chadda further claimed that two years ago, the government had recognized the fodder shortage and its effects on rural households. The Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy (MoFAHD) drafted a proposal in September 2020 to establish 100 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO) exclusively for fodder.
Amul is an Indian dairy state government cooperative association with headquarters in Anand, Gujarat. The founder of Anand Agriculture College, Maganbhai Patel, proposed the name “Amul,” which derives from the Sanskrit word “Amulya,” meaning “priceless” or “precious.” AMUL is the acronym for Anand Milk Union Limited. The brand “Amul” was developed by Kaira Union to market its product line.
It is a cooperative brand administered by Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which was founded in 1946 and is today governed by 36 lakh milk producers in Gujarat and the apex body of the 13 district milk unions, which are scattered among 13,000 villages in Gujarat. India became the top producer of milk and dairy goods in the world after the “White Revolution,” which Amul helped to start.
Mother Dairy manufactures, markets, and sells milk, dairy products, edible oil, fruits, and vegetables under the National Dairy Development Board, a statutory entity owned by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy of the Government of India. Mother Dairy was established in 1974, as a division of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
