New fodder plan will be jointly implemented by the centre and states and will be ready by March
The government is working on a plan to increase the area under fodder crop, which it hopes will help raise livestock yield.

With the new hike cost of milk, the gap between the procurement price that the farmers get and the retail price the consumer pay has widened further to take it to almost double than the rate in the neighbouring states.

The difference between two ends is nearly Rs12 paid as the overhead and handling charges in the state.

The huge gap between buying and selling is due to the overheads the hand

Amul, the country

Sixty private and cooperative dairies in Maharashtra have decided to increase the selling price of milk by 3/litre from February 16. The cow milk price will go up from 26/litre to 29/litre while the buffalo variety will go up from 33/litre to 36/litre. Amul, Mahanand and Gowardhan will take a call prices on Monday. Maharashtra dairies had raised milk prices by 1/litre only last month.

Constant efforts are being made to increase milk production in Bundelkhand by the MP State Cooperative Dairy Federation. So far, the federation has constituted 120 milk cooperatives in the region since July 2010. Three thousand 565 members of these cooperatives are collecting six thousand 124 litres of milk on an average daily. The members have collected 3 lakh 63 thousand litres of milk so far.

Ranchi, Jan.

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LUCKNOW: In a welcome first, officials of the department of food and drug administration will now conduct door-to-door purity tests on milk and milk products in residential colonies in the state capital and across the state.