In Tamil Nadu a three-tier dairy cooperative system is functioning successfully since 1981.
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to direct Gujarat-based dairy large Amul to desist from milk procurement within the southern state with fast impact.
Writing to Mr Shah, Mr Stalin drew the Centre’s consideration to the problems arising out of milk procurement by the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (Amul) within the Tamil Nadu milk shed space.
Recently, it has come to the state authorities’s discover that Amul has utilised its multi-state cooperative license to put in chilling centres and a processing plant in Krishnagiri district, Mr Stalin stated.
Also, Amul has deliberate to obtain milk by means of FPOs and SHGs in and round Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts in Tamil Nadu.
“It has been a norm in India to let cooperatives thrive with out infringing on one another’s milk-shed space. Such cross-procurement goes in opposition to the spirit of ‘Operation White Flood’ and can exacerbate issues for the shoppers given the prevailing milk scarcity situation within the nation. This act of AMUL infringes on Aavin’s (TN Co-operative Milk Producers Federation) milk shed space which has been nurtured in true cooperative spirit over a long time.
“This transfer by AMUL will create unhealthy competitors between cooperatives engaged in procuring and advertising and marketing milk and milk merchandise.
“Regional cooperatives have been the bedrock of dairy improvement within the states and they’re higher positioned to interact and nurture producers and to cushion shoppers from arbitrary worth hikes.
Therefore, I request your pressing intervention to direct Amul to desist from milk procurement from the milk shed space of Aavin in Tamil Nadu with fast impact,” the Chief Minister stated.
Providing a backgrounder to the matter, Mr Stalin stated until now, Amul was solely promoting their merchandise in Tamil Nadu by means of their retailers.
In Tamil Nadu, like in different States with sturdy dairy cooperatives, a three-tier dairy cooperative system is functioning successfully since 1981 for the advantage of the agricultural milk producers and shoppers, Mr Stalin stated.
“Aavin is our apex cooperative advertising and marketing federation. Under the ambit of Aavin co-operative, 9,673 Milk Producers Co-operative Societies are functioning in rural areas. They procure 35 LLPD of milk from about 4.5 lakh pouring members. Under this present association, milk producers are assured of remunerative and uniform costs all year long by the cooperative societies.”
In order to extend and maintain milk manufacturing in Tamil Nadu, Aavin additionally gives numerous inputs akin to cattle feed, fodder, mineral combination, animal well being care and breeding providers for animals of milk producers.
In addition, it ensures the availability of high quality milk and milk merchandise to shoppers at one of many lowest costs in our nation. Thus, Aavin performs a significant function in bettering the livelihood of rural milk producers and the assembly the dietary requirement of shoppers, he stated.
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