Better mechanism needed to control milk prices: President DCFA.

KARACHI -- Milk is being sold at higher price despite that Pakistan is the fourth largest milk producer mainly because of lack of an effective policy and regulatory system and absence of encouragement to dairy farming along with sale of meat of baby cows and buffaloes, and increase in the prices of 22 items of cattle feed.

This was mentioned by President, Dairy and Cattle Farmers Association, Shakir Gujar while speaking at the media studio of Muhammad Ali Jinnah University here, said MAJU release on Friday.

He said the increase in milk prices was against the wishes of the people and serious steps were needed to curb the continuous rise in its prices. There was a big difference between government prices and the price of milk sold at dairy shops.

He pointed out that in a meeting held at the Commissioner's office in Karachi two years back it was decided to set up a committee to monitor milk production and its prices with mandate to review its cost and prices after every four months. However, he added, not a single meeting of this committee was held till date.

The chief ministers of the four provinces should take steps to encourage dairy farming and increase milk production in their provinces but they did not have a team to...