Baglung. The subsidy programme to provide subsidy on the basis of the quantity of milk produced by the farmers has become effective in Baglung. Farmers who have collected milk through cooperatives and marketed it have received a subsidy of Rs five per litre. In the fiscal year 2081/82, farmers associated with eight dairy cooperatives in Baglung received Rs 3.732 lakh. Around eight hundred farmers have benefited from the grant.

According to the Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Expert Centre, farmers get the subsidy from cooperatives that sell and purchase milk and sell at least 200 liters of milk in a day.

Centre’s chief Dr Rishiram Sapkota said the centre’s successful and effective programmes include incentives to be provided to dairy farmers on the basis of production. Sapkota, however, said that those who sell the milk produced by the farmers directly in the market will not get the subsidy.

“The subsidy is a very effective subsidy programme on the basis of production, the more the farmers produce, the more subsidy they get,” Sapkota said, adding, “We have provided subsidy to the farmers through cooperatives for the production of milk and the subsidy has been increasing every year.” ’

In the fiscal year 2078/79, the Centre had distributed subsidy of Rs 3732,768 for 746,554 litres of milk. According to experts, farmers can be subsidized for 10 lakh liters of milk.

Although 15 cooperatives collect and send milk to the District Cooperative Association in Baglung bazaar, only eight cooperatives that sell 200 liters of milk on a daily basis have received subsidy of Rs 5 per liter.