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| name = National Dairy Development Board
| name = National Dairy Development Board
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| type = [[statute|Statutory Body]]<br />
| type = [[Statutory body]]
| industry =  
| purpose = {{ublist|Dairy industry regulation
*[[Regulation|Dairy Regulation]]
|[[Dairy industry]] development}}
*[[Development|Dairy development]]
| headquarters =
*[[Cooperative society|Dairy Cooperative Societies]]
| parent_organization = Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India.
| owner = [[Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying]], [[Government of India]]
| subsid = {{ublist|[[Mother Dairy]] | {{abbr|IDMC Ltd|Indian Dairy Machinery Company, Ltd}} | [[Indian Immunologicals Limited]]|NDDB CALF Ltd.|NDDB Dairy Services|NDDB Mrida Ltd.}}
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| subsid =
| founder = Dr [[Verghese Kurien]]
*[[Mother Dairy]]
| leader_title = Chairman
*IDMC Limited
| leader_name = Dr. Meenesh Shah
*NDDB Dairy Services
| location = [[Anand, Gujarat]], India
*Indian Immunologicals Limited
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.nddb.coop}}|
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| founder = [[Verghese Kurien|Dr. Verghese Kurien]]
| location = [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
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The '''National Dairy Development Board''' ('''NDDB''') is a [[statutory body]] set up by an Act of [[Parliament of India]]. It is under the ownership of [[Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying]] of the [[government of India]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Dilip-Rath-appointed-as-NDDB-chairman/articleshow/55735486.cms|title=Dilip Rath appointed as NDDB chairman|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-11-05}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=December 2021}} The main office is in [[Anand, Gujarat]] with regional offices throughout the country. NDDB's subsidiaries include IDMC Limited-Anand, [[Mother Dairy]], Delhi, NDDB Dairy Services, Delhi and [[Indian Immunologicals Limited]], Hyderabad.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://sarkariduniya.com/national-dairy-development-board-2/|title=राष्ट्रीय डेयरी विकास बोर्ड (एनडीडीबी) {{!}} NDPI|date=2018-10-12|work=पीएम योजना,केंद्रीय और राज्य सरकार योजनाओं, केंद्रीय मंत्रालयों और सरकारी विभागों पर समाचार प्राप्त करें|access-date=2018-11-05|language=hi-IN}}</ref> The Board was created to finance and support producer-owned and controlled organisations. Its programmes and activities seek to strengthen farmer cooperatives and support national policies that are favourable to the growth of such institutions. Cooperative principles and cooperative strategies are fundamental to the board's efforts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nddb.coop/about|title=National Dairy Development Board official website}}</ref>
The '''National Dairy Development Board''' ('''NDDB''') is a [[statutory body]] set up by an Act of the [[Parliament of India]] and an Institution of National Importance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NDDB's Role in the White Revolution and Challenges Ahead |url=https://indiadairy.com/expert-article/nddbs-role-in-the-white-revolution-and-challenges-ahead/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=IndiaDairy |language=en-US}}</ref> It is under administrative control of the [[Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying]] of the [[Government of India]].<ref>{{Cite web | title=Press Release: Press Information Bureau | url=https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2027125 | access-date=2025-05-11 | website=pib.gov.in}}</ref> The main office is in [[Anand, Gujarat]] with regional offices throughout the country. NDDB's subsidiaries include Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd (IDMC),<ref>{{cite web |title=Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd., Anand (IDMC), NDDB Dairy Services NDDB Mrida Ltd., NDDB CALF Ltd. |url=https://www.nddb.coop/links/inst/idmc |website=National Dairy Development Board |access-date=10 September 2023 |date=2017}}</ref> [[Mother Dairy]] and [[Indian Immunologicals Limited]], Hyderabad, NDDB Dairy Services, NDDB Mrida Ltd., NDDB CALF Ltd.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Subsidiaries {{!}} nddb.coop |url=https://www.nddb.coop/links/inst |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=www.nddb.coop}}</ref> The Board was created to finance and support producer-owned and controlled organisations. Its programmes and activities seek to strengthen farmer cooperatives and support national policies that are favourable to the growth of such institutions. Cooperative principles and cooperative strategies are fundamental to the board's efforts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nddb.coop/about|title=National Dairy Development Board official website}}</ref>


==History==
Meenesh Shah was appointed the Chairman of NDDB in 2021.<ref>{{cite press release |author1=((National Dairy Development Board)) |title=Meenesh Shah takes over additional charge of Chairman, NDDB |url=https://www.nddb.coop/node/2213#:~:text=of%20Chairman%2C%20NDDB-,Meenesh%20Shah%20takes%20over%20additional%20charge%20of%20Chairman%2C%20NDDB,June%2C%202021%20until%20further%20orders |access-date=12 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127092917/https://www.nddb.coop/node/2213 |archive-date=27 January 2022 |date=25 June 2021}}</ref>
It was founded by [[Verghese Kurien|Dr. Verghese Kurien]]. The National Dairy Development Board {NDDB} was created in 1965, fulfilling the desire of the then prime minister of India &mdash; the late [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] to extend the success of the Kaira Cooperative Milk Producers' Union ([[Amul]]) to other parts of India.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Sharad |title=Remembering Verghese Kurien – India’s first milkman |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/remembering-verghese-kurien-indias-first-milkman/article30084051.ece |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=businessline |date=26 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>


That success combined the wisdom and energy of farmers with professional management to successfully capture liquid milk and milk product markets while supporting farmer investment with inputs and services. The major success of this mission was achieved through the World Bank financed [[Operation Flood]], which lasted for 26 years (1970 to 1996) and was responsible for making India the world's largest producer of milk. This operation was started to increase milk production, augmenting farmer income and providing fair prices for consumers.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
==Establishment==
[[File:Mansinh Institute of Training, National Dairy Development Board, Mehsana, Gujarat, India.jpg|thumb|Mansinh Institute of Training of National Dairy Development Board at [[Mehsana]], [[Gujarat]]]]
The NDDB was founded by Dr. [[Verghese Kurien]] in 1965. The prime minister of India at that time, [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]], wished to replicate the success of the Kaira Cooperative Milk Producers' Union ([[Amul]]) across India.<ref name="gupta 2019">{{cite news |last1=Gupta |first1=Sharad |title=Remembering Verghese Kurien – India's first milkman |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/remembering-verghese-kurien-indias-first-milkman/article30084051.ece |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=businessline |date=26 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Kurien had been instrumental in Amul's success, where he had instituted a producer-run, democratic farmers' cooperative model. Until this time, India's own dairy industry was limited in its capacity and dominated by traders who set pricing. Marginal milk producers reaped little reward in this system, and the country's foreign exchange was expended in European and New Zealand dairy industries, purchasing dairy imports to fill the shortfall.<ref name="gupta 2019"/><ref name="tehelka">{{cite news|last=Suhrud|first=Tridip|author-link=Tridip Suhrud|title=The magic of manthan|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main17.asp?filename=op040806the_magic.asp|access-date=15 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916183627/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main17.asp?filename=op040806the_magic.asp|archive-date=16 September 2012|newspaper=Tehelka|date=16 September 2012}}</ref>


NDDB has now integrated 1,17,575 dairy co-operatives in what it calls the Anand Pattern, linking the village society to the state federations in a three-tier structure.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
Between the start of the NDDB's landmark project in 1970, ''[[Operation Flood]]'' and its founder's retirement in 1998, India quadrupled its milk production, with the board's technical and organisational support.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurien|first=Verghese|chapter=India's Milk Revolution: Investing in Rural Producer Organizations |title=Ending poverty in South Asia: Ideas that work |date=2007 |publisher=World Bank |location=Washington, DC, USA|editor1-last=Narayan|editor1-first=Deepa |editor2-last=Glinskaya|editor2-first=Elena|pages=37–67|isbn=978-0-8213-6876-3}}</ref> By then India had 81,000 dairy cooperatives, formed with the assistance of NDDB on their "Amul" pattern. In 1998, India became the largest milk producer in the world, when its output surpassed that of the United States.<ref>{{cite web |author1=((World Food Prize Foundation)) |author1-link=World Food Prize |title=1989: Kurien The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World |url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/19871999_laureates/1989_kurien/ |website=www.worldfoodprize.org |access-date=15 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108053638/https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/19871999_laureates/1989_kurien/ |archive-date=8 November 2021 |location=Ames, Iowa, USA |language=en-us}}</ref> The country remains a major dairy-producing nation.<ref name="HT 11">{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Ahmedabad/India-largest-milk-producing-nation-in-2010-11-NDDB/Article1-785018.aspx |title=India largest milk producing nation in 2010–11: NDDB |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=20 December 2011 |access-date=16 May 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006163514/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Ahmedabad/India-largest-milk-producing-nation-in-2010-11-NDDB/Article1-785018.aspx |archive-date=6 October 2012 }}</ref>


NDDB launched its Perspective Plan 2010 with four thrust areas: [[Quality Assurance]], Productivity Enhancement, Institution Building and National Information.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
==Agencies==
#NDDB Dairy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary
#Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary


In year 2012,under the national dairy plan (NDP) programme, NDDB had initiated plans to boost dairy farming by targeting 40,000 villages in 14 major milk producing states including Punjab.<ref name="NDDB Reference1">{{cite news |title=NDDB plans to boost dairy farming in Punjab |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/nddb-plans-to-boost-dairy-farming-in-punjab/story-Wo429ElNY4ba1Wq4MmxYhL.html |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=18 May 2012 |language=en}}</ref> The project was aimed at covering about 2.7 million milch animals in these states.<ref name="NDDB Reference1" />
==Initiatives==
In 2012, under the national dairy plan (NDP) programme, NDDB had initiated plans to boost dairy farming by targeting 40,000 villages in fourteen major milk producing states including Punjab.<ref name="NDDB Reference1">{{cite news |title=NDDB plans to boost dairy farming in Punjab |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/nddb-plans-to-boost-dairy-farming-in-punjab/story-Wo429ElNY4ba1Wq4MmxYhL.html |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=18 May 2012 |language=en}}</ref> The project was aimed at covering about 2.7 million milch animals in these states.<ref name="NDDB Reference1" /><ref name="NDDB Reference2">{{cite news |title=Dairy development by NDDB in India |url=https://www.dairyindustries.com/news/35782/dairy-development-by-nddb-in-india/ |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=Dairy Industries International |date=12 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>


In year 2020, National Dairy Development Board started working with the government of [[Maharashtra]] and helping the latter to implement plans for the [[Vidarbha]] and [[Marathwada]] dairy development projects, including small and marginal dairy farmers in these regions of Maharashtra and designed initiatives which had enhanced the income of more than 91,000 farmers by providing them fair consumer prices.<ref name="NDDB Reference2">{{cite news |title=Dairy development by NDDB in India |url=https://www.dairyindustries.com/news/35782/dairy-development-by-nddb-in-india/ |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=Dairy Industries International |date=12 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> To facilitate the larger objective of rural prosperity, NDDB through its subsidiary Mother Dairy, set up milk procurement infrastructure in [[Vidarbha]] and [[Marathwada]] areas of [[Maharashtra]] which have been the most drought affected regions making it agriculturally distressed, for providing better remuneration to the farmers of the region.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" /> The project is aimed at making dairying a source of sustainable livelihood and poverty alleviation for milk producers in the drought prone Vidarbha and Marathwada regions and an MOU was signed in 2013 between the NDDB and the government of Maharashtra for promotion of dairy development.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" /> Till November 2020,under this project, on an average 185,000 litres of milk is procured every day at 1,454 milk pooling points (MPPs) and products are being supplied to more than 2,350 milk booths franchisee outlets and retailers in about 40 cities across Maharashtra.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" /> Under this initiative, milk is being procured from dairy farmers residing in and around 2,503 villages of 10 districts: Amravati, Yavatmal, Wardha, Nagpur, Chandrapur and Buldhana, in Vidarbha region and Nanded, Osmanabad, Latur and Jalna in Marathwada region.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" /> For ensuring a transparent system and control in possession and collection, an electronic weighing/testing facility is installed where farmers can observe the weight, quality results and value of their milk poured and a computerised printed slip is given to each farmer and they receive their payments directly in their bank accounts. Currently, almost 30% of the members are women and organisation is taking initiatives to increase their participation.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" /> In addition to liquid milk to the consumers, Mother Dairy had also launched many alternate products of milk such as curd, mishti doi/yogurt, buttermilk milk, tadka chhaas{{which lang|date=May 2021}}, ghee, orange burfi, sweets, flavoured milk, milk shake, tetra lassi, lassi fresh, ice cream, butter, paneer, cheese, dairy whitener, UHT milk, UST cream, Safal products and Dhara edible oils which supplements the income of farmers and its daily value added product sales have approximately reached 6,800&nbsp;kg.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" />
In October 2020, the NDDB launched a "manure management initiative" at the Mujkuva Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS) in Anand district, wherein [[biogas]] plants are installed by dairy farmers outside their residences for producing gas to be used as cooking fuel. In addition to biogas, bio-slurry produced from these biogas plants will also be used by the farmers in their own fields for soil conditioning. Surplus bio-slurry can be sold to other farmers or converted into organic fertilisers.<ref name="NDDB Reference3">{{cite news|date=28 October 2020|title=Anand district: NDDB begins initiative for dairy farmers on manure management|language=en|publisher=The Indian Express|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/anand-district-nddb-begins-initiative-for-dairy-farmers-on-manure-management-6906092/|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>


In October 2020, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has launched a Manure Management Initiative at the Mujkuva Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS) in Anand district, wherein biogas plants are installed by the dairy farmers in their backyard for producing gas to be used as cooking fuel. In addition to bio-gas, bio slurry produced from these biogas plants will also be primarily used by the farmers in their own fields and surplus bio slurry can be sold to other farmers or converted in to organic fertilisers.<ref name="NDDB Reference3">{{cite news|date=28 October 2020|title=Anand district: NDDB begins initiative for dairy farmers on manure management|language=en|publisher=The Indian Express|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/anand-district-nddb-begins-initiative-for-dairy-farmers-on-manure-management-6906092/|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
In 2000, in accordance with the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the administration of [[Ladakh]] to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.<ref name="NDDB Reference4">{{cite news |title=NDDB to promote dairying in Ladakh, inks MoU with UT - Vadodara News |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/nddb-to-promote-dairying-in-ladakh-inks-mou-with-ut/articleshow/78521176.cms |access-date=11 March 2021 |work=The Times of India |date=7 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="NDDB Reference5">{{cite news|date=1 November 2020|title=NDDB to build 3 new dairy plants in Jharkhand at cost of Rs 90 crore|work=[[The Times of India]]|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/nddb-to-build-3-new-dairy-plants-in-jharkhand-at-cost-of-rs-90-crore/articleshow/78974076.cms|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>


In 2000, in accordance of the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it has signed an MoU with the administration of Ladakh to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.<ref name="NDDB Reference4">{{cite news |title=NDDB to promote dairying in Ladakh, inks MoU with UT {{!}} Vadodara News - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/nddb-to-promote-dairying-in-ladakh-inks-mou-with-ut/articleshow/78521176.cms |access-date=11 March 2021 |publisher=The Times of India |date=7 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
In one innovative approach, NDDB, in collaboration with [[All India Radio]] (AIR), launched ''Radio Samvad''—an awareness series on radio for dairy farmers of the [[Vidarbha]] and [[Marathwada]] regions. {{As of|2020}}, a twice weekly, 30-minute episode was broadcast from Nagpur, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Osmanabad and Nanded radio stations on subjects related to scientific dairy animal management. Subject experts from NDDB conduct the sessions.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" />


In November 2020, on request from Jharkhand Government had agreed to construct and manage three new dairy plants in [[Jharkhand]] at Sarath (Deoghar), Sahebganj and Palamu, will have capacity of 50 TLPD expandable to 100 TLPD, will be ready by September 2021. The board is also in discussion for construction of products dairy plant at Hotwar and two dairy plants of 50,000 litres per day (TPLD) capacities at [[Jamshedpur]] and Giridih with [[Jharkhand]] Government. In April 2014, NDDB took over management of JMF, which used to operate units in 15 districts of Jharkhand including Ranchi, Ramgarh, Lohardaga, Khunti, Hazaribag, Koderma, Giridih, Deoghar, Dhanbad, Palamau, Garhwa, Chatra, Latehar, Bokaro and Godda, and will continue to manage till March 2024.<ref name="NDDB Reference5">{{cite news|date=1 November 2020|title=NDDB to build 3 new dairy plants in Jharkhand at cost of Rs 90 crore|publisher=[[The Times of India]]|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/nddb-to-build-3-new-dairy-plants-in-jharkhand-at-cost-of-rs-90-crore/articleshow/78974076.cms|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
 
* {{annotated link|Amrita Patel}}, head of NDDB 1998–2014
==Other Initiatives==
* {{annotated link|Agriculture in India}}
 
* {{annotated link|Cooperative movement in India}}
In one of the innovative approach, NDDB in collaboration with All India Radio (AIR), had launched Radio Samvad – an awareness series on radio for dairy farmers of the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions which is planned  every Tuesday and Friday, as a 30-minute episode which is broadcast from Nagpur, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Osmanabad and Nanded radio stations on subjects related to scientific dairy animal management and subject experts from NDDB are conducting the sessions in which dairy farmers are taking a keen interest.<ref name="NDDB Reference2" />


==See also==
===Dairy cooperatives===
*[[Mother Dairy]]
* [[Aavin]], the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
*[[Karnataka Milk Federation]]
* [[Amul]], the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd
*[[Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation]]
* [[Bihar State Milk Co-operative Federation]], producers of the ''Sudha'' dairy brand
*[[Aavin]]
* [[Karnataka Milk Federation]], producers of the ''Nandini'' brand
*[[Amul]]
* [[Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation]], trade name: ''Milma''
*[[Amrita Patel]]
* [[Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd]], brand name: ''Vita''
* [[Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation]] (OMFED)


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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==External links==
==External links==

Latest revision as of 17:00, 8 February 2026


National Dairy Development Board
Founded16 July 1965
(61 years ago) (1965-07-16)
FounderDr Verghese Kurien
TypeStatutory body
Purpose
Location
Chairman
Dr. Meenesh Shah
Parent organization
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India.
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.nddb.coop

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a statutory body set up by an Act of the Parliament of India and an Institution of National Importance.[1] It is under administrative control of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government of India.[2] The main office is in Anand, Gujarat with regional offices throughout the country. NDDB's subsidiaries include Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd (IDMC),[3] Mother Dairy and Indian Immunologicals Limited, Hyderabad, NDDB Dairy Services, NDDB Mrida Ltd., NDDB CALF Ltd.[4] The Board was created to finance and support producer-owned and controlled organisations. Its programmes and activities seek to strengthen farmer cooperatives and support national policies that are favourable to the growth of such institutions. Cooperative principles and cooperative strategies are fundamental to the board's efforts.[5]

Meenesh Shah was appointed the Chairman of NDDB in 2021.[6]

Establishment[edit | edit source]

Mansinh Institute of Training of National Dairy Development Board at Mehsana, Gujarat

The NDDB was founded by Dr. Verghese Kurien in 1965. The prime minister of India at that time, Lal Bahadur Shastri, wished to replicate the success of the Kaira Cooperative Milk Producers' Union (Amul) across India.[7] Kurien had been instrumental in Amul's success, where he had instituted a producer-run, democratic farmers' cooperative model. Until this time, India's own dairy industry was limited in its capacity and dominated by traders who set pricing. Marginal milk producers reaped little reward in this system, and the country's foreign exchange was expended in European and New Zealand dairy industries, purchasing dairy imports to fill the shortfall.[7][8]

Between the start of the NDDB's landmark project in 1970, Operation Flood and its founder's retirement in 1998, India quadrupled its milk production, with the board's technical and organisational support.[9] By then India had 81,000 dairy cooperatives, formed with the assistance of NDDB on their "Amul" pattern. In 1998, India became the largest milk producer in the world, when its output surpassed that of the United States.[10] The country remains a major dairy-producing nation.[11]

Agencies[edit | edit source]

  1. NDDB Dairy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary
  2. Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary

Initiatives[edit | edit source]

In 2012, under the national dairy plan (NDP) programme, NDDB had initiated plans to boost dairy farming by targeting 40,000 villages in fourteen major milk producing states including Punjab.[12] The project was aimed at covering about 2.7 million milch animals in these states.[12][13]

In October 2020, the NDDB launched a "manure management initiative" at the Mujkuva Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS) in Anand district, wherein biogas plants are installed by dairy farmers outside their residences for producing gas to be used as cooking fuel. In addition to biogas, bio-slurry produced from these biogas plants will also be used by the farmers in their own fields for soil conditioning. Surplus bio-slurry can be sold to other farmers or converted into organic fertilisers.[14]

In 2000, in accordance with the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the administration of Ladakh to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.[15][16]

In one innovative approach, NDDB, in collaboration with All India Radio (AIR), launched Radio Samvad—an awareness series on radio for dairy farmers of the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions. As of 2020, a twice weekly, 30-minute episode was broadcast from Nagpur, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Osmanabad and Nanded radio stations on subjects related to scientific dairy animal management. Subject experts from NDDB conduct the sessions.[13]

See also[edit | edit source]

Dairy cooperatives[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "NDDB's Role in the White Revolution and Challenges Ahead". IndiaDairy. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Press Release: Press Information Bureau". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd., Anand (IDMC), NDDB Dairy Services NDDB Mrida Ltd., NDDB CALF Ltd". National Dairy Development Board. 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "Subsidiaries | nddb.coop". www.nddb.coop. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "National Dairy Development Board official website".
  6. ↑ National Dairy Development Board (25 June 2021). "Meenesh Shah takes over additional charge of Chairman, NDDB" (Press release). Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gupta, Sharad (26 November 2019). "Remembering Verghese Kurien – India's first milkman". businessline. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  8. ↑ Suhrud, Tridip (16 September 2012). "The magic of manthan". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 16 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  9. ↑ Kurien, Verghese (2007). "India's Milk Revolution: Investing in Rural Producer Organizations". In Narayan, Deepa; Glinskaya, Elena (eds.). Ending poverty in South Asia: Ideas that work. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. pp. 37–67. ISBN 978-0-8213-6876-3.
  10. ↑ World Food Prize Foundation. "1989: Kurien The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World". www.worldfoodprize.org. Ames, Iowa, USA. Archived from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "India largest milk producing nation in 2010–11: NDDB". Hindustan Times. 20 December 2011. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "NDDB plans to boost dairy farming in Punjab". Hindustan Times. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Dairy development by NDDB in India". Dairy Industries International. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  14. ↑ "Anand district: NDDB begins initiative for dairy farmers on manure management". The Indian Express. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  15. ↑ "NDDB to promote dairying in Ladakh, inks MoU with UT - Vadodara News". The Times of India. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  16. ↑ "NDDB to build 3 new dairy plants in Jharkhand at cost of Rs 90 crore". The Times of India. 1 November 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

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