"dairy-farmers"

The dairy farmers demanded payment of bills for the milk collected from them. The bills were pending for three months

While the protest continued for four hours at Agraharam, dairy farmers sat on the road along with milk cans in Gambhiraopet mandal

The 10,000 liters capacity chilling center, which has been operated since the last 22 years, was seized on the ground that the center has no permission from TS-iPASS

Mother Dairy, to which they supply milk, allegedly did not pay their dues reportedly to the tune of Rs 4 lakh

Dairy farmers staged a protest demanding payment of dues owed to them by VT Dairy.

They protested to demand payment of dues owed to them by VT Dairy, which was acquired by Sangam Dairy through a bank auction. The bank had auctioned the facility to recover the outstanding debts from VT Dairy.

As Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka was heading to Srisailam to participate in different programmes, the dairy farmers staged a protest. However, the police took them into preventive custody.

The dairy farmers have been requesting the management of the Vijaya Dairy to release the pending bills since the last three months, but it has been postponing it on one or the other grounds.

In an open letter, Harish Rao stated that during the BRS regime, the dairy bills were cleared once in every 15 days, but the Congress-led State government kept them pending for the last 45 days.

Various documents, fake ID cards, a computer, receipts of deposits and bank passbooks were recovered from them

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday assured that the government would release the funds after March 18 that would benefit about 60,000 dairy farmers in the State.

Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav directed the officials concerned to make necessary arrangements to train dairy farmers in this regard

Collector instructed the officials to take up initiative for sanction of loans by the banks to the applicants for purchase of dairy cattle