After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to put end on single use of plastic, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry and Dairying on Wednesday asked the AMUL and Mother Dairy Federations to formulate action plan/protocol to recycle milk pouches and share with it for circulation to other milk federations for implementation. The Lok Sabha Secretariat has also banned the use of non-reusable plastic water bottles and other plastic items within the Parliament complex.
At a high level meeting, the ministry of animal husbandry and dairying asked Major Dairy Federations like Gujarat Milk Federation (Amul), Karnataka Milk Federation (Nandini), Punjab Milk Federation (Verka), Maharashtra Milk Federation (Mahanand) to encourage reuse of plastic milk pouches, in a campaign mode, with 3R strategy - Reduce, Rebate and Reuse. The meeting also reviewed the availability, supply, prices and export/import issues with the milk processors.
The milk procurement price was observed to have increased by Rs.1-2 across the country. India ranks first in global milk production. Milk production in India has increased to 176.4 million tonnes in 2017-18 as compared to 165.4 million tonnes during 2016-17 recording a growth of 6.65 percent.
In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to abandon the use of single-use plastic and take significant steps to achieve this objective by October 2, when the country celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
