The Government-owned Mother Dairy has revised its milk prices resulting in an increase of Rs 3 per liter to the price of its full cream milk. The revised prices will be effective from Monday in the Delhi-NCR region.
The decision came after Amul increased its prices by Rs 2 in April end. The other variants will be costlier by Rs 2 per litre. One litre of full cream milk (poly pack) will now cost Rs 42, toned milk (poly pack) Rs 32, token milk Rs 30, double toned Rs 28. However, prices of skimmed milk have been kept unchanged at Rs 22 per litre, Mother Dairy revealed in a statement.
Mother Dairy, the largest supplier of milk in the Delhi-NCR, sells more than 30 lakh litres per day (both loose and poly-pack) in the region. "Price hike has been necessitated due to significant increase in resource costs (farmer prices) by almost 10 per cent over that of last year's. Resources being power tariffs, petroleum prices and other costs," the company said. Prices have been increased to maintain viability of operations and to be able to adequately cater to the growing liquid milk demand of the consumers in NCR, it added.