SRINAGAR: The 15th general meeting of milk producers witnessed chaos as speakers exchanged heated arguments accusing each other of not helping dairy farmers.
The 15th annual general body meeting of the ‘Jammu and Kashmir Milk Producers’ Cooperative Limited (JKMPCL)’ was held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Ashok Kumar Angurana, Chairman, Board of JKMPCL.
However it turned out to be a choas as Principal Secretary Animal and Sheep Husbandry Dr Asgar Samoon and Managing Director Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF AMUL) Dr R S Sodhi accused each other of not helping dairy farmers.
Registrar JK Cooperatives Department MM Ghasi in his address said that government shall frame a policy to give 50 percent subsidy to daily farmers.
When he started pointed out shortcomings, Samoon interrupted and told him: “Your Cooperative Department has failed not us. Our’s is a success story. You are provoking farmers against us. We don’t need suggestions from anybody. You should apologize for misleading the farmers.”
Samoon claimed that milk producing companies were exploiting dairy farmers.
Sodhi told Samoon that the government officers are not doing their work properly. “We will work with dairy farmers and not officers like you. It is because failure of officers likes you that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had approached us with a proposal regarding dairy farm,” he told Samoon.
Samoon retorted back saying they did not do any favour to them. “We know what you have done. You did us no favour. I am not even here to listen to you. Why you invited me here,” Samoon told Ghasi.
Amid chaos, Samoon tried to leave the stage but the officers’ persuaded him to stay back.
