Tamil Nadu Minister for Milk and Dairy Development C. Vijayalakshmi on Thursday (October 15, 2026) said that increase in procurement prices had resulted in an increase in milk procurement by the cooperative milk producers’ unions in different parts of the State.

The Minister was launching Aavin full cream milk packets and curd cups being produced by the Tiruchi District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union at Kottapattu plant. She told presspersons that Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay recently announced an increase of ₹3 in the procurement price of milk procured by primary milk producers’ cooperative societies in the State. With the announcement, the procurement price of milk had gone up to ₹44 a litre. It had come as a big boost to dairy farmers. Since the increase in price, the average milk procurement by the cooperative milk producers’ unions had been going up steadily. It was expected that the milk procurement would go up to 3.5 lakh litres by next month.

Before the price revision, milk procurement by Tiruchi Aavin was hovering around 1.75 lakh litres. It had gone up to 1.90 lakh litres, Ms. Vijayalakshmi said.

Ice cream plant

Earlier, the Minister inspected the production of ice cream at the newly inaugurated ice cream plant at Kottapattu. It was built at an estimate of ₹21.57 crore under the Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund. The plant has a capacity to produce 6,000 litres of ice cream a day. It is capable of producing 10,000 litres of curd, lassi, and other products.

Later, Ms. Vijayalakshmi held a review meeting at the Collectorate on the functioning of cooperative milk societies, milk procurement, production of dairy products and sales. Collector Pratik Tayal and Tiruchi Aavin general manager (in-charge) Sundara Vadivel attended the meeting.