Amul and Mother Dairy hike milk prices by ₹2-4 a litre from Nov 12

Amul and Mother Dairy, two of India's biggest milk brands, announced on Wednesday (11 November) that they will raise the price of liquid milk by ₹2 to ₹4 per litre from Thursday, 12 November. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which sells milk under the Amul brand, said fresh pouch milk will cost 4-5% more across major variants and pack sizes. This is the second milk price hike this financial year.

“The price of our largest-selling Amul Taaza toned milk with 3 per cent milk fat has been increased by only Rs 2 per litre (3.3 per cent increase) and Amul Gold Milk with 6 per cent milk fat by Rs 4 per litre (5.5 per cent rise),” GCMMF said in a statement. News18 reported that Amul Taaza will now cost ₹61 a litre and Amul Gold ₹76.

GCMMF blamed a sharp rise in the cost of milk production and processing. It said prices of green and dry fodder, cattle feed ingredients such as oil cake, maize and molasses, packaging film and fuel have all gone up over the past year. “In the current challenging environmental circumstances due to low and uneven rainfall in Gujarat, as well as many parts of India, we are constrained to increase the consumer price of milk to pay better prices to our producers and support them in these difficult times,” it said. The federation added that its member unions raised the prices they pay farmers by 4-5% over the past year, and that around 80% of what consumers pay goes back to its 36 lakh milk producers, The Times of India reported.

Mother Dairy, the biggest milk supplier in Delhi-NCR, is raising its liquid milk prices by the same ₹2-4 a litre from 12 November. In the NCR, bulk-vended (token) toned milk goes from ₹58 to ₹60 a litre, pouch toned milk from ₹60 to ₹62, double-toned milk from ₹54 to ₹56, and cow milk from ₹62 to ₹65. Full-cream milk and Pro Milk rise from ₹72 to ₹76. CNBC-TV18 reported that the company cited uneven monsoon conditions that hit fodder supply, with green and dry fodder up by as much as 20% and cattle feed up about 10% over the year. Mother Dairy last raised prices on 14 May 2026.

A milk price rise twice in one financial year is unusual; Business Standard noted it last happened in 2022-23. The paper quoted a senior industry official as saying the increase was “purely due to high feed and fodder prices particularly that of maize”, which is being drawn into ethanol production. It added that Karnataka Milk Federation raised Nandini milk by ₹8 a litre from 1 November and that Amul raised ghee prices by ₹50 a litre from 2 November. Food inflation rose to 7.74% in September from 5.97% in August, according to National Statistics Office data cited by the paper.