Southern States - Karnataka

Co-ops. protest changes to MMPO

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE May 27. The Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) and the Milk Producers' Cooperative Societies Employees' Action Committee today launched a protest against the amendments proposed to the Milk and Milk Products Order (MMPO) 1992, which will "liberalise" procurement of milk and could virtually spell doom for the milk cooperatives that have made India the biggest producer of milk in the world.

Once the amendment is ratified, sellers will no longer be bound to supply only to the cooperatives, and they will be free to supply to any dairy that wishes to procure from them.

Since the amendment initiated by the Union Government will affect the entire country, the milk producers' organisations in the State got the West Bengal Minister in charge of Animal Husbandry, Anisur Rehman, to highlight the manner in which the new rule would mark the beginning of the end of a successful "White Revolution" that has changed rural livelihoods in the past decades.

Nationwide, over seven crore people are involved in the world's biggest milk cooperative, producing more than eight crore tonnes of milk. Karnataka itself, with a daily production of 75 lakh kg of milk, stands third in the country in milk production.

Today's protest meeting, spearheaded by the KPRS, and the federations of milk cooperatives, was addressed by former Karnataka Milk Federation Chairman, H.D. Revanna, and the All-India Kisan Sangh Vice-President and MP, Mahboob Zaidy, among others.

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