Global dairy major Lactalis on Thursday announced an increase in the purchase price of its milk by Rs 1 per liter. However, this will not affect the customers. The company said that the increase in the purchase price of milk by Lactalis will not affect the customers purchasing milk and milk products.
New Delhi. Global dairy major Lactalis on Thursday announced an increase in the purchase price of its milk by Rs 1 per liter. Lactalis operates in Maharashtra under the name Sunfresh Agro Industries (which owns the brand Prabhat). The company said in a statement that the average milk price in Maharashtra is around Rs 30 per liter and Lactalis will now pay more than Rs 30 for the quality of 3.5 / 8.5 SNF (solid-non-fat). However, the company said that the increase in milk purchase price by Lactalis will not affect the customers purchasing milk and milk products.
Will not affect customers
The move will benefit more than 50,000 dairy farmers who supply milk to lectelis in Ahmednagar, Pune and Nashik regions. The price rise has brought relief to dairy farmers, who were struggling with the pressure of milk purchase prices during 2020 due to disruptions related to COVID-19 and were expecting a reasonable increase.
Corona led losses dairy farmers
CEO Lacktalis Rajiv Mitra said, “demand last year Corona epidemic because unfortunately dairy products and material losses dairy farmers due to low. Now, since the epidemic outbreak is low And markets are opening up, so we want to benefit the farmers.
resuming operations of various business sectors such as restaurants, airlines and institutional buyers milk ingredients and derivatives the rising demand. increased demand and milk reduction dairies have increased the purchase prices of milk farmers.
Increase of Sudha milk prices by Rs 3 per liter
Recently, Sudha Dairy in Bihar announced an increase in the price of other products including milk. Sudha Dairy has increased the price of milk by two rupees per liter. The new rates have been implemented from 7 February. After this, Bihar has to pay 52 rupees for one liter of cream milk and 54 rupees in Jharkhand.
