A milk processing centre will be established in Karcham or Tapri in Kinnaur district to make its products available to the army and local people. This was stated by chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu while presiding over a review meeting of the Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited (MILKFED) on Saturday, in which he issued directions to ensure better marketing and high quality of its products.
Directions were given for preparing a proposal to set up a new milk powder plant in the already existing milk processing plant in Mandi district. He said the federation has recorded the highest increase in milk procurement during this financial year and 29 new bulk milk coolers have been installed.
In two years, 222 automatic milk collection units have been installed in the state. Multi-level efforts have been made to increase the number of milk-producing co-operative societies with their number has increased to 716 as of now. The number of farmers selling milk to Milkfed has also increased significantly, now exceeding 40,000.