Dang. The dairy farmers here are suffering due to not getting the price according to their hard work and investment. They have to work hard in the animal husbandry business, but they are not getting the price according to it.
There is a problem in the milk value chain as the farmers who produce milk do not get the right price and the consumers have to pay comparatively high prices. The farmers have demanded that the transparent details of the cost and profit from the production to the consumers should be made public. They say that if the farmers are to be encouraged to produce, then the fair price of milk should be ensured.
Both producers and consumers have been affected by the dairies and businessmen who buy milk from farmers at low prices and sell it to consumers at a higher price. Gopal Khanal, who runs Green Laxmi Cow and Buffalo Farm in Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City-2, Rampur, produces more than 100 liters of milk daily. He said that about 65 liters of milk produced is sold to the dairy and the rest of the milk is sold to the consumers at home.
According to Khanal, the price of buffalo milk is not more than Rs 75 per liter when milk is sold to the dairy. The price of cow milk is Rs 65 per liter. However, the same milk is sold to the consumers up to Rs 100 per liter. He said that although the cost of production of cow and buffalo milk is different, the consumers have to pay almost the same price for both types of milk. “Farmers are not involved in the price fixation,” he said.TAG_OPEN_div_23
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