Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar said he was opposed to any move by the central government to import dairy products, like butter and ghee.
In a letter written to Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala, Pawar said the import of butter and ghee (clarified butter) will directly affect the income of domestic milk producers.
Referring to media reports about the Centre's proposal to import some dairy products, the NCP supremo said any such decision will be totally unacceptable.
The dairy farmers have recently come out of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis and such a decision will severely impede the revival process of the dairy sector, the former Union agriculture minister said.