Malabar Milma in Kerala announces ₹5-crore Onam bonus for dairy farmers

Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (Malabar Milma) in Kerala will distribute ₹5.04 crore as an Onam gift to dairy farmers this season.The package comprises ₹4.2 crore as an additional milk price payout and ₹84 lakh in cattle feed subsidies. Nearly 1,00,000 dairy farmers and around 1,200 primary Anand Pattern Co-operative Societies (APCOS) across the Malabar region will benefit from this initiative, Milma chairman K. S. Mani has said.An additional milk price of ₹2 per litre will be paid for standard-quality milk supplied to the regional union via the APCOS between June 1 and 30. The additional price for the 210 lakh litres of milk collected during this period totals ₹4.2 crore, which will reach dairy farmers across Malabar’s six districts in the coming days. The decision was