Farmers' Protest: After Haryana Khap, Farmers From 3 UP Villages Stop Selling Milk In Support

As the farmers' protest in the borders of Delhi continues, Three villages in Amroha district have stopped supply of milk to the cooperative societies to express their solidarity with the farmers' movement.

The dairy farmers have also announced that from March 6, they will sell milk at Rs 100 per litre. At present, their supply is sold at Rs 35 per litre.

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Three villages in Amroha district have stopped supply of milk to the cooperative societies to express their solidarity with the farmers' movement.

State president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) youth wing, Digambar Singh, said, "We have not invoked the farmers to stop the milk sale. Farmers are doing so of their own to protest against farm law. Agitation is not confined to us, it has reached ground level and is now getting support from other farmers and common man too."

According to reports, on Monday, dairy farmers of three villages -- Rasulpur Mafi, Chuchaila Khurd, and Shahzadpur in Amroha district -- put their milk vessels upside down refusing to supply milk to cooperative societies.

The tankers of the societies returned empty.

According to Dinesh Kumar, a dairy farmer, "We are doing this to show solidarity with our brothers who are sitting on the Ghazipur border protesting against the farm laws. We fully support them and shutting down the milk supply is our way of protesting."

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Another farmer Rajpura Singh said, "Our agitation against the three black farm laws will continue. There is no guarantee of payment and minimum support price for crops in these laws.

"There is an unwarranted hike in the prices of fuel, pesticide, fertilizers, power tariff, labour wage leading to drastic increase in the cost of production. In such desperate conditions, how can farmers survive? We will not sell milk to the cooperative societies. We will prepare other products from milk, like ghee, sweets and butter for six days, instead of selling it to societies."

Chairman of Parag Dairy (government owned dairy), Pradeep Chaudhary said, "It came to my notice that there are some farmers in Rasoolpur who did not sell milk on Monday. However, there is no branch of Parag dairy here in these villages."

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This comes just days after Khap Panchayats in Haryana increased the rate of milk to protest against the controversial farm laws and rising fuel prices. Khap leaders announced that they will sell milk at Rs 100 per litre to government cooperative societies from today onwards.

"We have decided to give milk at the price of Rs 100/litre. We urge dairy farmers to sell milk at the same price to government cooperative societies," said the Panchayat spokesperson.

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The Samyukta Kisan Morcha which leads the protests has clarified that it did not put out any call for hiking of the price of milk.

According to the SKM statement, a social media message was going viral on its name and the clarification was being put out in that context.

Farmers are requested to ignore any such wrong message that they might receive in the name of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, it added.