Dairy farmers ask government to hike price of Aavin milk

Key points

• Dairy farmers have urged the new Tamil Nadu government to increase the selling price of Aavin milk and pass on the hike to them as procurement price.
• This follows the recent move by Amul and Mother Dairy to increase milk prices by ₹2 per litre.
• Tamil Nadu Milk Producers Welfare Association general secretary M.G.
• Rajendran said the TVK, in its election manifesto, had promised ₹44 per litre of milk, which is more than what we are given now.
• "We don't want to burden the consumers at one go.