KARACHI, Dec 29: Dairy farmers have raised their concern about the acute shortage of animal feed created by the continued closure of roads and resultant disruption in supplies from the interior of Sindh and Punjab to the Cattle Colony and other dairy farms since Thursday evening.

Talking to Dawn, Joint Secretary of the Karachi Dairy Farmers Association Shaukat Mukhtar said that milk supplies from the Cattle Colony to the retail outlets in the city had improved considerably after deployment of Rangers on Mehran Highway. He said 75 per cent of the total five million liters, produced daily, was transported to different areas on Saturday.

However, he said an acute shortage of animal feed was looming as the colony and farms had not received fodder since Thursday and the law and order was still uncertain.