According to the dairy industry, more milk is produced and collected in October, November, December, March, February and March. The milk produced in excess of the market demand is stored by making butter and powder. Due to the balance itself, the payment to the farmers is delayed. After Baisakh, the milk dry season begins. Lack of milk The industrialist says that the demand of the market will be fulfilled through the milk powder stored in Nadin and the arrears of the farmers will be paid.

A month has passed since the beginning of the dry season. But the arrears of the dairy farmers who have not received the payment have gone up. They have not received the price for 6 months. Farmers should get more than 5 billion rupees from the dairy industry, according to Central Dairy Cooperative Association Limited. According to Ram Acharya, the general secretary of the association, the farmers have not received Rs 3.5 billion from private dairies and Rs. 1.5 billion from the government-owned Dairy Development Corporation (DDC). 

When the dry season begins, the farmers' dues are still outstanding. There is arrears of more than 5 billion for 4 to 6 months,'' Acharya said, 'Dairy industries have sold in cash. Due to the dry season, there is no problem of inventory. But the farmers did not get the money.' 

After the farmers did not get the money, Acharya said that the district-based union affiliated to the central union submitted a memorandum to the district administration office. In the memorandum submitted by the Bara District Milk Producers Cooperative Association to the District Administration Office Bara on May 1, it is mentioned that the farmers have not received money for 6 months along with the milk holiday problem. 

Farmers who earn their daily living are upset because of non-payment for 6 months. In such a situation, it seems that a large number of manpower will migrate,' the memorandum says, 'We have submitted all the details including the industrialists and cooperatives who have payment arrears. It is requested to take the initiative for the payment of milk amount.' 

Makwanpur District Milk Producers Cooperative Association has also submitted a memorandum to District Administration Office Makwanpur on 2081 Chait 31. He has also requested to solve the problem of farmers who have not been paid for a long time. "Farmers have submitted a memorandum to the district administration saying that the money due to farmers will not be collected within a week," Acharya said, "The government has a tendency to make agreements time and again but not implement them." If the demand is not addressed, there is no option to protest again.' 

About 6 lakh farmers are directly involved in the dairy sector. Nepal Dairy Industry Association and Nepal Dairy Association collect milk from around 4 lakh farmers. DDC collects milk through about 1,200 milk producer cooperatives. About 200,000 farmer families are involved in 1,200 cooperatives. Although it is common for private dairies to stop arrears to make a profit, the association said that government dairies are also killing farmers.

DDC has taken concessional loans from the government many times to pay the farmers. But the dues are the same. The arrears to be paid to the farmers have not decreased. Irregularities within DDC are said to cause problems. 

'DDC and private dairy usually have to pay within 15/15 days. But most of the farmers of DDC have not received the money since last November," said an official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, "but there was no question from the leadership. Surprisingly, even a General Manager has not been appointed to make DDC effective. The joint secretary of the ministry has been given the responsibility to publish public information and make it through open competition.' 

DDC information officer Neelkanth Gautam admitted that the outstanding amount to be paid by DDC to the farmers is 1.5 billion. He says that the dairy farmers in the valley have received payment till December 15. He said that the payment for the project in the district has been pending since November. "Due to the increase in milk collection, we made powder and butter and made a balance. As much as there is a balance, there is an arrears equal to that amount," Gautam said, "There is an arrears of about one and a half billion."