Price of milk up by ₹8, curd by ₹14 as KMF reveals new rate card effective from November 1 in Karnataka

Bengaluru The new prices for milk and curd announced by Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), effective from November 1, shows the cost of regular toned milk, sold in blue packet, will go up by ₹8 a litre. The hike is much higher for other varieties of milk. The price for a litre of curd will go up by ₹14. Nandini milk prices to go up by ₹8 per litre from November 1 as Cabinet gives nod for hike storyline 1 The price of homogenised cow milk has shot up by ₹8/litre, while homogenised toned milk has gone up by ₹9/litre.

The cost of a litre of special toned milk and Shubham milk will go up by ₹12. The price of a pouch of 500 grams of curd will go up from ₹28 to ₹36, and one kg pouch from ₹54 to ₹68. According to KMF, the price revision has been undertaken keeping in view the interests of milk-producing farmers as well as the prevailing market prices of milk and curd offered by competing brands.

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Presently, an average of ₹28.60 crore per day is paid to milk producers towards milk procurement. “Due to inadequate and untimely rainfall this year, Karnataka has been facing drought-like conditions, resulting in a shortage of water and green fodder. Dairy farmers of the State are incurring increased expenditure towards the maintenance of cattle, veterinary care, medicines, and fodder supply, making it increasingly difficult for them to sustain dairy farming.

In view of these challenges, milk producers had submitted a representation to the government of Karnataka requesting an urgent increase in the milk procurement price,” KMF stated. Hike ‘unavoidable’, says CM Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar, speaking to media persons on Saturday (October 31), defended the price hike as “unavoidable”. “The price of milk is much higher in our neighbouring States.

Milk production is also coming down due to drought. If we had not increased the price, there was a danger of farmers giving the milk they produce to other dairies. So a hike was inevitable,” he said. “Owing to drought there is a shortage of green fodder and to protect his cows, he (farmer) needs to have money, even as milk production is coming down. So we had to hike the prices.

This is a way to protect the cows,” he added.