White 'flood' on the streets

Nepali dairy companies have not yet made meaningful efforts to explore foreign markets.

On February 18, as a prelude to their protest against non-payment for their milk supplies since October last year, dairy farmers of Chitwan District spilt several hundred litres of milk at the Bharatpur Bus Park cross-section. The farmers say they are awaiting payment of Rs520 million in Chitwan alone. In total, processing companies owe about Rs6 billion to milk producers nationwide. The government-owned Dairy Development Corporation (DDC) alone owes over Rs1 billion.