A. Srinivas, a retailer of Dodla Dairy, used to sell over 160 litres of milk a day from a small outlet in Anantapur city. Vijaya Dairy defunctIn an indication of the crisis that the sector finds itself in, the Andhra Pradesh Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Limited milk processing unit (Vijaya Dairy) has seen its entire market of 3,500 litres a day getting almost wiped out. “We are currently processing only 400 litres a day from its capacity to process about 1 lakh litres a day,” said Dairy Development Deputy Director Sasankadhara. During the initial days of the lockdown, the district administration had asked Vijaya Dairy to supply milk to the people living in containment zones, which kept their business going for two months. The milk processing unit, which used to process about 80,000 litres a day till 2016, stopped procurement completely after it lost its entire market in Telangana.

Source: The Hindu July 17, 2020 18:00 UTC