Kochi, April 6 -- Milma's Ernakulam Regional Co-operative Milk Producers' Union (ERCMPU) will request to the apex Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation in Kerala to increase the price of milk in tune with the times amid steady rise in production cost and labour wages.
A meeting of the ERCMPU administrative committee took the decision, its Chairman Valsalan Pillai C N said on Sunday.
"It is for the Milma Federation to decide on rise in the prices of the milk. We will work to pressure the apex body to make moves on this front," Pillai said.
Milk farmers in Kerala are not getting income in accordance with the production cost, prompting small and marginal diaries to quit the field, he said.
"The state's milk production is coming dow...