Action ordered against retailers, farmers charging higher milk price
Karachi
February 3, 2021
One of dairy farmers’ cartels in the city hiked the milk price by Rs46 per litre late on Monday. The farmers’ association demanded of Commissioner Karachi Navaid Ahmed to revise the milk price every four months as per a directive of the Sindh High Court.
The association asked to place a ban on the export of animal fodder and sign a free trade agreement with them to import animal fodder; otherwise, there would be a Rs15 price hike by the month of May. However, the price hike was rejected by the Milk Retailers Association, other associations of dairy farmers and the commissioner. Sindh Agriculture Supply and Prices Department on Monday issued a notification to all the divisional commissioners across the province to take against the abrupt price hike of fresh milk and violation of the notified milk price which is Rs94 per litre.