Milk-pouring farmers want the Amul model of cooperative set-up and systems to be revived in the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (TNCMPF).
This includes visits of veterinarians to farms to treat cattle in case of emergencies, provision of free medicines on a regular basis, installation of trevis (the steel frame inside which the cattle are made to stand during treatment) at primary cooperative societies and measurement of fats and solids non-fat in milk using ISI formula in place of the Richmond formula being used presently.
M. G. Rajendran, general secretary, Tamil Nadu Milk Producers’ Welfare Association, said that after the State’s first zonal office of the National Dairy Development Board was established at Erode in the 1970s and milk-pouring farmers were being canvassed to join primary cooperative societies, these incentives were provided to farmers.
