Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Thursday announced that the cooperative milk producers’ federation, popularly known as PONLAIT, has hiked the issue price of milk by ₹6 per litre.
He also said the procurement price of milk purchased from dairy farmers would also go up by ₹4 a litre. The increase in prices would come into force from Friday.
The Chief Minister made the announcement suo motu in the Assembly.
Noting that the government had not revised the prices since the last five years, he said there was a plea from dairy farmers and members of cooperative milk supply societies to raise the price for procurement of milk in view of the rise in price of cattle feed and maintenance of milch animals.
The issue price of toned milk would go up from present ₹36 to ₹42 a litre while that of special toned milk would go up from ₹38 to ₹44 a litre and the standardized milk would cost ₹48 instead of the present ₹42 a litre.
