Milk procurement rates: union prices by date

These milk procurement rates are what a union pays for raw milk, as checked in November 2026. It is not the price of a packet at the shop. Every figure below comes from a press report dated on the page, because no union's own circular could be found online. Rates change without warning and differ inside a single state, so the figure that binds you is your own union's circular or your plant's rate sheet. Check that before you change a rate on your wall.

Milk rate today: the latest published rates

No one publishes a live milk rate today for all of India. Each union changes the price it pays farmers by circular, on its own date, and the press reports it some days later. So the honest answer to "milk rate today" is the latest dated rate for your union. Here are the latest milk procurement rates we found, checked November 2026, with the full tables below.

Rate asked for	Latest published rate	Date
Buffalo milk fat rate	₹880 a kg fat at Sumul, ₹875 at Amul Dairy, about ₹54 a litre at FAT 6.0	2 March 2026 and 1 June 2026
Cow milk rate	₹850 a kg fat at Sumul; ₹36.68 a litre at FAT 3.5 at Amul Dairy	2 March 2026 and 1 June 2026
Amul milk rate	Amul Dairy, Anand: ₹875 a kg fat for buffalo milk	From 1 June 2026
Karnataka	Nandini: ₹42 a litre, ₹47 with the state incentive	From 1 November 2026
Tamil Nadu	Aavin: ₹44 a litre	Announced 31 August 2026
Kerala	Milma: ₹43.39 a litre	From 1 June 2026
Odisha	OMFED: ₹39.05 a litre	From 1 May 2026
Madhya Pradesh	Indore Cooperative Milk Union: ₹850 a kg fat	From 1 March 2026
Maharashtra	No dated full rate found	See below

These are milk purchase rates from farmers, paid by a union. The "Amul milk rate" many people want is the shop price of a packet, which rose ₹2 a litre from 14 May 2026. If a rate in your area changed after the date shown, the newer circular wins.

Milk procurement rates paid a kg fat

Gujarat's unions quote a rate a kg of fat, and so does the Indore union in Madhya Pradesh. The four Gujarat unions below are member unions of the Amul federation, yet each sets its own figure, so "the Amul rate" is not one number.

Union	Milk	Rate a kg fat	Earlier	Date	Source
Amul Dairy, Anand	Buffalo	₹875	₹865	From 1 June 2026	DeshGujarat, AgriMoon
Amul Dairy, Anand	Cow	₹388.65 "equivalent fat"	₹384.10	From 1 June 2026	AgriMoon
Banas Dairy	Not split in the report	₹860	Up ₹15	Reported 28 May 2026	DeshGujarat
Sumul Dairy	Buffalo	₹880	₹870	Reported 2 March 2026, in effect at once	DeshGujarat
Sumul Dairy	Cow	₹850	₹830	Reported 2 March 2026, in effect at once	DeshGujarat
Dudhsagar Dairy	Not split in the report	₹855	Up ₹25	From 1 June, reported 29 May 2026	Indian Cooperative, AgriMoon
Indore Cooperative Milk Union, Madhya Pradesh	Not split in the report	₹850	₹820	From 1 March, reported 7 March 2026	Free Press Journal

One conflict to note. DairyNews7x7 gives Dudhsagar's new rate as ₹830, not ₹855. Two other reports say ₹855, so we show that, but ask the union.

Indore has a gap of its own. DairyNews7x7 reported a rise from ₹820 to ₹840 from 11 September 2025, yet the March 2026 report starts again from ₹820. The rate may have come down over the winter, but no report says so. The ₹850 is the latest dated figure.

Also do not lay the cow rows side by side. Amul's ₹388.65 and Sumul's ₹850 look far apart, yet they are built differently, as the cow section below shows.

Rates paid a litre

Other federations announce their milk procurement rates as a flat figure a litre. The reports below name no FAT or SNF for that figure, so you cannot compare them with the table above, or with each other, without the union's chart.

Union, state	Rate a litre	Earlier	Date	Note	Source
Nandini (KMF), Karnataka	₹42 base, ₹47 with the ₹5 state incentive	₹35 base, ₹40 with incentive	From 1 November 2026	Set by the state Cabinet	UNI, Nation Press
Aavin, Tamil Nadu	₹44	₹41	Announced 31 August 2026	₹38 to ₹41 came on 19 August. ₹1 a litre is deducted for insurance	All India Radio, Rural Voice, DT Next
Milma, Kerala	₹43.39	₹40.04	From 1 June 2026	₹3.35 of a ₹4 retail rise went to farmers	Agri Times
OMFED, Odisha	₹39.05	₹38.05	From 1 May 2026		Orissa Post

Read the Aavin figure with care. In June 2026 DT Next reported ₹35 for cow milk and ₹44 for buffalo milk, plus a ₹3 incentive. That fits the earlier ₹38 being the cow rate with incentive, so on our reading the ₹44 headline is cow milk and buffalo is higher. The reports in the table give no split.

Look at Karnataka for a moment. A rise of ₹7 in one go is ₹7,000 a day on a 1,000 litre lot. If your supplier sells to a society there, he now knows the new number, and your rate has to answer to it.

Who is missing, and why

We left these out rather than guess.

Mother Dairy. No published rate turned up. In May 2026 it spoke of a rise of around 6% in farmer procurement prices over one year, with no rupee figure.

Sudha (COMFED). Reports cover retail rises in 2026, not what farmers are paid. No current farmer rate could be sourced.

Verka (Milkfed Punjab). Reports give the rise, ₹20 a kg fat from 1 May 2026, but no full rate. A rise alone tells you nothing to compare.

Maharashtra, Gokul included. No dated full rate turned up for the state. Gokul in Kolhapur raised what it pays farmers by ₹1 a litre for buffalo milk and ₹2 for cow milk on 21 February 2026, with no base figure. The state's own minimum of ₹34 a litre for cow milk dates from July 2023, too old to quote as a rate today.

Saras and Sabar. The one 2026 figure for Saras, in a state report, gave a rate of ₹52 a kg fat, which cannot be right beside the rates above. The latest Sabar figures found date from February 2025.

A missing union says nothing about its rate, only about what we could check.

How to turn a rate a kg fat into a rate a litre

The sum has two steps, and most mistakes come from stopping at the first.

Step 1, a kg of milk. FAT 6.0 means 6 kg of fat in 100 kg of milk. So one kg of milk holds 0.06 kg of fat. At ₹875 a kg fat, a kg of milk is worth 0.06 × ₹875 = ₹52.50.

Step 2, a litre of milk. A litre weighs more than a kg, about 1.03 kg. So ₹52.50 × 1.03 = ₹54.08 a litre.

Stop at step 1 and you lose ₹1.58 on every litre. On a 1,000 litre lot that is ₹1,580 a day.

Here are the buffalo rates worked through, at 1.03.

Rate a kg fat	FAT 5.0, a litre	FAT 6.0, a litre	FAT 6.5, a litre	FAT 7.0, a litre
₹855	₹44.03	₹52.84	₹57.24	₹61.65
₹860	₹44.29	₹53.15	₹57.58	₹62.01
₹875	₹45.06	₹54.08	₹58.58	₹63.09
₹880	₹45.32	₹54.38	₹58.92	₹63.45

The press reports for Amul Dairy put FAT 6.0 at ₹54.05 and FAT 7.0 at ₹63.06, 3 paise under our sum. Those figures match a multiplier of 1.0295 rather than 1.03. Three paise looks like nothing, yet it is ₹30 a day on 1,000 litres, so use your own union's multiplier if it prints one.

Put your own rate and FAT into the rate a kg fat converter and skip the sum. A rise is quick to work too. Amul Dairy's ₹10 a kg fat rise at FAT 6.0 is about ₹0.61 a litre on the reported figures, which is ₹610 a day on 1,000 litres.

Why the cow rate does not convert the same way

Try the same sum on Amul Dairy's cow rate. ₹388.65 at FAT 3.5 gives ₹13.60 a kg, or about ₹14 a litre. But the reported rate at FAT 3.5 is ₹36.68 a litre.

So fat alone is about ₹14 of that ₹36.68. The step from FAT 3.5 to FAT 4.0 adds ₹2.00, reported as ₹38.68, which matches the fat rate exactly. On our reading, the other ₹22.68 or so pays for SNF and the rest, though the reports do not say how. That is why the fat converter counts fat alone and will not give you a cow figure for a union that pays this way.

Sumul's ₹850 for cow milk is plainly built on a different formula. Do not compare the two on the headline. Compare what each pays for the same litre, at the same FAT and SNF, using the union's chart. Our milk rate calculator does this for a chart based on FAT and SNF.

How to read a rate notice

A rate looks higher or lower depending on how it is written. Five things to find in any circular before you act on it.

The unit. A kg of fat, a kg of milk and a litre are three different prices.

The FAT and SNF behind a litre rate. ₹44 a litre at FAT 3.5 and ₹44 a litre at FAT 6.0 are far apart. If the notice gives no base, ask for the chart.

What sits on top. Karnataka's ₹42 becomes ₹47 only with the ₹5 the state pays. A private buyer pays no such incentive, yet a supplier will still compare your rate with ₹47.

What comes off. Aavin's ₹1 a litre insurance deduction is a good example, and quality deductions are common.

The date. Sumul's change applied at once. Amul Dairy announced on 19 May for 1 June, which gives you 13 days to prepare your suppliers.

One more figure gets quoted at counters. Amul Dairy's final price for 2025 to 2026 was reported as ₹1,035 a kg fat. That is a year-end figure, set beside a day rate of ₹875, so do not put it on your wall as a daily rate.

The federation's own number helps with the wider trend. GCMMF said in May 2026 that its member unions had raised farmer prices by ₹30 a kg fat, 3.7% over May 2025. At FAT 6.5 that is about ₹2 a litre across a year.

What this means for a private centre

A union rate is your market signal, not your rate. Your own price depends on what your plant pays you, your staff, your transport and your margin. Still, your suppliers read the same news, and the man with the can will quote it at you on the morning it comes out.

Three things are worth doing the day a rate moves. Work out your litre rate at your own usual FAT. Note the date on your chart. Tell your suppliers before they ask.

The date matters most, because a month later someone will ask what the rate was on the 14th. In Doodh Master, every rate chart change is kept with its date, so you can show that without hunting through old papers. Bills then follow the 10-day cycle at the rates in force on each day.

Before you rely on any row here, read your union's own circular. This page shows the milk procurement rates that were reported, on the dates shown, as checked in November 2026. It is not a rate list you can bill from.

Your next step takes a minute. Open the converter, type your union's rate and your FAT, and see your rate a litre.