Millions of dollars worth of milk is being discarded daily at farms across the country, farmers said at a crisis meeting Friday of national diary farmers and cattle producers, the Zimbabwe Standard reported Monday.

Many of the farmers said they feared they would have to sell their livestock and land and close down their farms, the Standard reported.

Milk and butter have disappeared from stores as the National Dairy Cooperative, which collects the milk from farmers, has stopped operating most of its trucks because of the worsening fuel crisis, the Standard reported.

"The milk is not getting to the processors in urban centers," said dairyman Ezra Ndlovu, "and we are beginning to see the effects of that with the ongoing shortages."