Milk price hike is honey for farmers

Prices of all goods and services are headed north in this hike season. So is the price of milk by state's own milk cooperative. Predictably, the public are outraged and debates are raging on media, kitchen and the living room on whether the price hike is really inevitable or an attempt by the Milma to cash in on the mandate it secured from the Kerala High Court last year for finalising milk prices it supplies.

If you look at milk production and consumption pattern, less than 30% of households in the state depend on packed milk produced by Milma and around 35 other private milk brands.