Milk imports soar as lumpy skin disease hits cattle stock

Milk imports soar as lumpy skin disease hits cattle stock

Buying milk is getting expensive across the country and the price could soon hit an all-time high, forcing the world’s biggest producer to step up imports to boost supplies and ease cost of living pressures. Farmers are wrestling with a rare double whammy: the lethal lumpy skin disease in their cows and a drawdown in […]

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Spiralling operational cost forces dairy farmers to give up ventures

Spiralling operational cost forces dairy farmers to give up ventures

Farmers who ventured into small-scale dairy farming to survive the pandemic-induced financial crisis are slowly withdrawing from the sector unable to generate a steady income owing to skyrocketing operational cost. Many of them complain that the revenue generated from the sale of milk and milk products is not satisfactory when compared with the actual operational […]

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