Harshini Brahmavar
Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (EP)
Udupi, Jan 30: “Farmers could have peaceful life during four year-long droughts because of milk dairies,” said PWD minister H D Revanna. He was speaking after inaugurating milk dairy with the capacity of 2.5 lac litres in Dakshina Kannada cooperative milk producers’ federation in Uppoor today.
“I will be requesting the government to increase the subsidy from the present five rupees to six rupees. Four and a half lac litre milk is produced in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Scheme for interest free loan through cooperative societies is being prepared. Out of 70 lac litres milk produced in Karnataka, forty thousand litres gets sold. As thirty thousand litre goes for conversion, dairies are incurring loss. The cooperative sector in the two districts performs well,” he said.
Dakshina Kannada milk producers’ federation president Raviraj Hegde gave an introductory speech and said that he will be requesting the government to start an Ice cream unit in Udupi. Udupi Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje said that attempts should be made to block milk coming from other states.
Pejavar math junior seer Vishwaprasanna Theertha Swamiji, cooperative minister Bandeppa Kashampur, opposition party leader and MLA Kota Srinivas Poojary, Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat, zilla panchayat president Dinaker Babu, Kundapur MLA Haladi Srinivas Shetty, Taluk panchayat president Nalini Pradeep Rao, Uppooru grama panchayat member Mahesh Kotian, Gujarat NDDB Anand executive director Sangram Singh Choudhuri, Dakshina Kannada cooperative milk producers federation vice president Sucharitha Shetty, managing director Dr B V Satyanarayana, Uppooru grama panchayat president Arathi, Hassan milk federation managing director Gopalayya, Bengaluru office director Suresh, Nabard Bengaluru chief general manager V S Sooryakumar, Dakshina Kannada district cooperative bank and Karnataka state cooperative marketing federation Bengaluru president and Karnataka state Apex bank director Dr M N Rajendra Kumar were present.