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- The price of ghee made from buffalo milk is Rs.800!
- The price of ghee made from cow’s milk is Rs.700!
- Traders cheat the citizens by taking arbitrary price of ghee
In Vadodara city and district, there is a clamor that cheap ghee is adulterated with palm oil, vegetable ghee, essence, fat. While, on the other hand, some traders cheat the customers by taking arbitrary price of desi ghee.
Citizens have complained that some traders have increased the price of ghee to mint with the increase in ghee withdrawal during the festive season. In the city, the price of ghee made from buffalo milk is Rs.800 per kg. Whereas, the price of 1 kg of ghee made from cow’s milk is currently Rs.700! For the last 116 years, 10 to 15 types of ghee have been coming to the city from various areas including Porbandar, Veraval, Jam Khambhaliya, Junagadh, Mehsana, Saurashtra, Maharashtra.
Grained ghee also comes to the city from Kathiawad sometimes. The price of 1 kg is Rs.1500 to Rs.2000 or more. Citizens lamented that dairy ghee is being sold at the price of a litre. Whereas, it is available in kilos in the open market. In such a situation 1 liter of ghee weighs around 900 grams. Considering the price of 1 kg of dairy ghee, it is not very cheap. Citizens have alleged that ghee is not nutritious as most of the sap-like cream is removed from dairy milk.
The most shocking thing is that some establishments are producing tawda ghee at local level. Among them, some of the tarkattis continue to cheat the consumers in the name of pure ghee by mixing substances like vegetable ghee, palm oil, essence grown from South India, fat in the ghee. The ghee trader pointed out that Valona’s ghee is low in yield and therefore expensive. Whereas, in dairy, separation is done for by-products including butter, cheese, buttermilk, curd, Srikhand, ice cream, gulabjambu, mango, pandan, honey, chocolates before the ghee prepared from the machine. Therefore, it has been alleged that dairy ghee does not contain enough essential nutrients. It is also a fact that by pasteurizing the dairy milk with substances including powders, the milk lasts longer so that the milk does not spoil.