Baghabari Milk Vita: Farmers in a fix as milk collection suspended

The primary milk producers under Baghabari unit of Milk Vita Limited are in a great fix as the authority has postponed buying milk from April 4.

Milk Vita officials said that they had to suspend the buying, selling and producing milk or milk-products as its 76 reinstated workers and employees enforced an indefinite strike.

The workers and employees have been enforcing the strike since April 4 and have continued with their demonstration locking the entrance of the administration building and the gates of the factories.

Milk Vita sources said that more than 500 workers and employees of the company were terminated during the 2007-2008 military controlled interim regime.

In the face of protests the government reinstated 76 of those workers and employees on January 12, 2013. They went for strike as they were yet to get their wages.

The Milk Vita manager in Baghabari, Saidul Islam, however, claimed that they had to shut down the buying and production of milk due to mechanical fault of the factory as well as general strikes called by different political parties.

He denied that the strike of employees caused the shutdown of the factory.

Milk Vita managing committee chairman Shafikur Rahman, however, said that discussions with the Milk Vita authority and the government were going going on for the resolution of the crisis. (Source)