Banas Dairy announces 20. 27 percent pay hike worth Rs. 1952 crore for milk producers

Palanpur: Addressing the 55th Annual General Meeting of Banas Dairy at Deodar, the Speaker of Legislative Assembly and Chairman of Banas Dairy Shankarbhai Chaudhary today announced 20.27 percent pay rise for milk producers worth Rs. 1952 crores. He said in the year-2014, Banas Dairy was procuring 29 lakh liters of milk per day, today it is procuring 73 lakh liters of milk per day.

He said Banas Dairy pays the highest price hike in the world. Talking about the new projects of Banas Dairy, he said that Food Land and Umang Mall have been started so that people can get good food and essentials of life easily. Veterinary doctors of Banas Dairy go to the farm and provide treatment to the farmers through 1095 helpline ambulance service which has been launched for treatment of animals. As many as 292 sons and daughters of herdsmen are studying in Banas Medical College run by Banas Dairy with 50 percent fees.

Chaudhary said that we all have taken up the campaign to make Banas green, while Banas Dairy has built 235 nectar lakes which have already done a great job of rain water storage. Similarly, tree plantation campaign has been started through seed balls. Chaudhary appealed to adopt natural farming and asked to do natural farming to save mother earth. He also asked to cooperate in the water harvesting works of the state government.

Speaking on this occasion, Cooperation minister Jagdish Vishwakarma said, the development journey of Banas Dairy, which started from Palanpur 55 years ago, has reached Faridabad and Kashi Vishwanath today thanks to the hard work of lakhs of women herdsmen of Banas. Banas Dairy is number one in the world, acquiring more than 70 lakh liters of milk per day, he said. DeshGujarat