Packages of school milk will be changed to lure more students to drink milk provided at schools.
Dairy Farming Promotion Organisation of Thailand (DPO)'s marketing department head Suchart Jariyalertsak, who is also responsible for the school milk project, said the DPO was set to propose a committee to change the current school milk packages, which have been the same for 15 years.
The current packages were not as colourful others produced by private companies - children liked ones made by the private companies more than those of the DPO. "More colourful packages will arouse students to drink school milk," he said.
Suchart said the government allocated Bt14 billion to provide milk to eight million students in kindergarten and primary levels.
However, many schools said that many students did not drink the school milk immediately handed out at their schools day by day. Many took it home and it ended up getting rotten.
The DPO wants kids to drink milk every day to prevent its milk being wasted.