In a letter to Union home minister Amit Shah, Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin has said that Shah should instruct Amul to stop milk procurement activities in Tamil Nadu immediately.
Amul’s move, Stalin said, “will create unhealthy competition between cooperatives engaged in procuring and marketing milk and milk products”. The cross-procurement goes against ‘Operation Flood’, which had made India self-sufficient in milk through cooperative dairies.
“It has been a norm in India to let cooperatives thrive without infringing on each other’s milk-shed area. Such cross-procurement goes against the spirit of ‘Operation White Flood’ and will exacerbate problems for the consumers given the prevailing milk shortage scenario in the country. This act of Amul infringes on Aavin’s milk shed area which has been nurtured in true cooperative spirit over decades,” Stalin’s letter reads.
26/05/2023