Lockdown disrupts dairy sector as sales suffer, feed becomes scarce

With hotels and restaurants shut, farmers can't sell their milk because there are no buyers. Residents also do not want to come out of their houses to buy milk due to risk of infection.

Dairy farmer Chudamani Dhakal of Lekbeshi Municipality-10 used to sell 300 litres of milk daily to dairies in Birendranagar. His buffalo farm houses 50 buffaloes, 27 of whom give milk.