Chhattisgarh Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, on Tuesday asked the officials of Chhattisgarh State Cooperative Dairy Federation limited (Devbhog Milk) to hike the milk collection in state to 2 lakh liters per day.
The minister had reached the Urla milk plant managed by the federation and carried out a detailed inspection of various products made over there. He closely inspected the processing and packaging of the products carried out in the factory.
According to officials, currently around 85,000 liters of milk is collected every day in Chhattisgarh, the minister has asked officers to complete all preparations required for increasing it to 2 lakh litre per day over the next one year.
He also directed the officials to send a proposal for installing tetra packaging plant.
"The farmer producing milk should get its price and also the milk and related products should be available for consumers on fair price," he said while assuring that the for boosting milk production and milk collection in Chhattisgarh all possible assistance would be provided to the milk federation.
later, Minister Agrawal handed over keys of four vehicles to the officers. These vehicles have been provided under different central sponsored schemes, which have been allocated to Kanker, Janjgir-Champa, Balod and Bemetara districts.
He also dedicated a mobile laboratory that would be sent to different parts of state for testing milk. The occasion was marked with presence of President Milk Federation, Rasik Parmar and others.