National Dairy Development Board

National Dairy Development Board

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Industry	Dairy Regulation Dairy development Dairy Cooperative Societies
Founded	July 1965, 16 (16-07-1965)
Founder(s)	Dr. Verghese Kurien
Headquarters	Anand, Gujarat, India
Owner	Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India
Subsidiaries	Mother Dairy IDMC Limited NDDB Dairy Services Indian Immunologicals Limited
Website	www.nddb.coop

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. 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. 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.

History

It was founded by Dr. Verghese Kurien. The National Dairy Development Board {NDDB} was created in 1965, fulfilling the desire of the then prime minister of India — the late Lal Bahadur Shastri to extend the success of the Kaira Cooperative Milk Producers' Union (Amul) to other parts of India.

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.

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.

NDDB launched its Perspective Plan 2010 with four thrust areas: Quality Assurance, Productivity Enhancement, Institution Building and National Information.

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. The project was aimed at covering about 2.7 million milch animals in these states.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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 kg.

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.

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.

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.

Other Initiatives

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.

See also

• Mother Dairy
• Karnataka Milk Federation
• Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
• Aavin
• Amul
• Amrita Patel

External links

• National Dairy Development Board