Amul jacks up milk prices by Rs 2

Price of Amul-Gold will now be Rs 34 per litre in Mumbai,Delhi,Kolkata and in few districts of Gujarat,while prices of its Shakti brand shall be Rs 30,Taaza Rs 25 per litre and Slim and Trim Rs 23 per litre. In Mumbai,the prices of Taaza brand shall only be increased by Re 1 per litre,as the price of Gold is already ruling at Rs 34 per litre, he said.

In Kolkata,we are hiking the prices of Gold by Rs 2 and Re 1 of Taaza brand respectively from January 3, Sodhi said. This is the third time this year when the milk prices have been hiked by the GCMMF. Earlier,the federation had hiked the milk prices in February and July this year. We had to increase the milk prices,as the dairy farmers have been reeling under the burden of inflation. The prices of feedstock,labour,fuel have all gone up, Sodhi said.