PONDA, July 19 -- Expressing growing concern over milk sales plummeting by nearly 50 percent, Goa Dairy farmers fear that if this downward trend continues, the dairy may face structural col-lapse and meet the same fate as the defunct Sanjivani Sugar Factory.

They raised serious doubts over the decision-making capabilities of the current management and alleged there was a complete lack of transpar-ency in the dairy's financial affairs. Addressing the me-dia, former Goa Dairy chairman Anup Desai, alongside other dairy farmers, highlighted the worrying drop in milk sales.

They pointed out that daily distribution, which stood at around 55,000 to 60,000 litres per day a year ago, has now crashed to just 35,000 litres under the tenure of the ...