Minister accuses pvt milk cos of creating 'artificial crisis'
Friday, 24 April 2009
Amid already-prevailing high prices of milk, Fishers and Livestock Minster Abdul Latif Biswas Thursday came up with a complaint that milk-processing private companies are trying to create an artificial crisis for milking the market, reports UNB.
The minister said that the processing companies decreased milk collection from the farmers to create "artificial dissatisfaction" among the milk producers with their perverse purpose of stopping milk import and then manipulating the market.
He called upon the countrymen to remain alert so that no vested-interest groups could put the government in trouble.
The Livestock minister made the remarks while he was addressing a meeting with dairy farm owners to pacify the milk producers at his office.
Earlier, the farmers of Sirajganj district dumped 450 litres of milk in protest against milk-processing companies for decreasing the milk collection from them.
The minister said that the processing companies decreased milk collection from the farmers to create "artificial dissatisfaction" among the milk producers with their perverse purpose of stopping milk import and then manipulating the market.
He called upon the countrymen to remain alert so that no vested-interest groups could put the government in trouble.
The Livestock minister made the remarks while he was addressing a meeting with dairy farm owners to pacify the milk producers at his office.
Earlier, the farmers of Sirajganj district dumped 450 litres of milk in protest against milk-processing companies for decreasing the milk collection from them.