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DKMUL to provide ₹25 as subsidy for 50 kg of cattle feed from August 1
The market rate for 50 kg bag of cattle feed is ₹1,350; farmers can procure this bag from DKMUL at ₹1,325
DKMUL president K.P. Sucharita Shetty addressing a press conference in Mangaluru on Monday.
| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
As part of its initiative to boost milk production, the Dakshina Kannada Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd. (DKMUL) will supply cattle feed to farmers at a subsidised cost from August 1.
Speaking to reporters here on Monday, the president of DKMUL K.P. Sucharita Shetty said the market rate for a 50 kg bag of cattle feed stood at ₹1,350. Farmers can procure this bag from DKMUL at ₹1,325.
Managing Director D. Vivek said DKMUL provided 2,000 tonnes of silage to farmers at a subsidised rate of ₹6.65 per kg, in April, May and June. “DKMUL spent ₹40 lakh for this purpose. This helped in boosting milk production, which had come down during summer.”
Land at Koila
Mr. Vivek said the DKMUL is keen on growing green fodder on the 25 acres of land in Koila offered by Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences. “We have asked the department to handover the land after clearing Acacia trees, which were planted by Social Forestry Division of the Forest Department,” he said.
Mr. Shetty said the DKMUL will purchase five acres of land, in addition to 10 acres allotted by the State government in Puttur. The DKMUL has planned to start a new facility on this 15 acres of land.
Net profit
Mr. Shetty said that with a total business of ₹1,108 crore, DKMUL earned a net profit of ₹8.29 crore during 2023-24. The average daily milk procurement in 2023-24 was at 3.91 lakh litres and it has come down to 3.59 lakh in this July.
Farmers are being paid ₹36 per a litre of milk for selling it to DKMUL. The union has paid farmers ₹19 crore under the milk production scheme and ₹38.2 lakh as incentive for fodder and silage production, in 2023-24. It has also paid ₹3.27 crore as insurance premium for 40,000 cows. The government has paid ₹72.49 crore as incentive to farmers at the rate of ₹5 per litre in 2023-24, he said.
Milk and curd
The average daily sale of milk in 2023-24 was at 3.93 lakh litres and that of curd was at 77,650 litres. The DKMUL was procuring one lakh litres of milk from Hassan and other milk unions daily to meet the demand.
DKMUL sold 19,826 kg of milk products during the same the period. Till March 2024, the union’s average daily earning from sale of milk and milk products was at ₹2.68 crore. It has sold 5,538 litres of ice cream during the period, Mr. Shetty said.
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