China to subsidise dairy farmers hit by toxic milk scandal

Several Chinese provinces have said they will subsidise dairy farmers in the wake of a toxic milk scandal which has caused consumption to fall off sharply and led farmers to dump milk, according to the country’s agricultural ministry.

The ministry says that farmers in some regions, including Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Shandong, have dumped large amounts of milk over past days after an industrial chemical, melamine, was found in a range of dairy products, including liquid milk and baby milk powder.
Government and industry officials have said melamine