Farmers in 3 UP villages stop milk supply to co-op societies
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Farmers in 3 UP villages stop milk supply to co-op societies
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AMROHA: Dairy farmers in at least three Uttar Pradesh villages have stopped supply of milk to the cooperative societies in solidarity with the farmers’ movement. The villages have also announced that from March 6, they will sell milk at Rs 100 per litre. At present, their supply is sold at Rs 35 per litre. On Monday morning, dairy farmers of three villages – Rasulpur Mafi, Chuchaila Khurd, and Shahzadpur in Amroha district – put their milk vessels upside down refusing to supply milk to cooperative societies. No wonder, the tankers of the societies returned empty. According to Anuj Kumar, a dairy farmer, “We are doing this to show solidarity with our brethren who are sitting on the Ghazipur border protesting against the draconian laws. We fully support them and shutting down the milk supply is our way of protesting.” Another farmer Sarjeet Singh said, "Our agitation against the three black farm laws will continue. There is no guarantee of payment and minimum support price for crops in these laws. There is an unwarranted hike in the prices of fuel, pesticide, fertilizers, power tariff, labour wage leading to drastic increase in the cost of production. In such desperate conditions, how can farmers survive? We will not sell milk to the cooperative societies. We will prepare other products from milk, like ghee, sweets and butter for six days instead of selling it to societies.” When contacted, chairman of Parag Dairy, Pradeep Chaudhary said, “It came to my notice that there are some farmers in Rasoolpur who did not sell milk on Monday. However, there is no branch of Parag here in these villages.” State president of BKU's youth wing, Digambar Singh, said, “We have not invoked the farmers to boycott the milk sale. Farmers are doing so of their own to protest against farms law. Agitation is not confined to us, it has reached to ground level and is now getting support from farmers and common men too.”
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The Times of India
Date
2021-03-02
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Meerut