Milk Is Getting Costlier in South—Is the premium more for the Farmer or the Supply Chain?

A closer look at retail milk prices in four southern states raises a larger question for India’s dairy industry: when milk prices rise, how much of that increase actually reaches the farmer? Milk prices are rising across southern India, but the story is more nuanced than a simple “milk inflation” headline. Data analysed by South…
Women dairy farmers felicitated in Bengaluru by IDA South Zone

Five dairy women farmers from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala were felicitated for their entrepreneurial zeal of producing milk ranging from 60 liters per day to 400 liters per day, at an event organised by the Southern Zone of the Indian Dairy Association at Bengaluru. The awardees are: A.N. Rajeshwari…