More benefits to dairy farmers

Shirley Wijesinghe

COLOMBO: Under the present administration, the MILCO has achieved significant progress by increasing its income thereby enabling the milk farmers as well as the employees to obtain more benefits, said All Ceylon Milk Industrialists' Association Secretary W. A. L. D. Gnanatileke at the media conference held at Colombo yesterday.

The media conference was held to respond to the false information in recent media issues about the corruption, malpractice and misadministration of the present company management made by some trade unions at a press briefing held on August 17.

Trade Union Secretary Gnanatileke said that if there were any such cases against the present Management of the MILCO, it should be criticised and proved with facts.

The promotions and new recruitment at the MILCO has been made without any political interference and no staff surplus at the moment in MILCO, said Joint Union Federation Convenor and Sri Lanka Nidahas Sewaka Sangamaya President G. V. Padmasiri Silva responding to the media.

He highlighted the statistics of the newly opened MILCO outlets and the beneficiary schemes implemented for the milk farmers by MILCO under the present management.

The MILCO Field Officers' Trade Union Secretary K. M. D. G. W. Abeykoon said that more than 50,000 milk farmers are now under the supervision of MILCO and it was earlier under the Animal Production and Health Department.

Under the present management they were well benefited and a good outcome can be expected from them.

The Union President Nandana Hettiarachchi strongly protested the opposing trade unions claim on the availability of low quality MILCO products in the market, and named the so-called union leaders as traitors.