The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a
statutory body
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set up by an Act of the
Parliament of India
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. It is under the ownership of
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is a newly formed ministry in India. It was formed in May 2019 by Modi government from the department of same name under fish minister
. The move was welcomed by Tamil Nadu Co-operative M ...
of the
Government of India
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. The main office is in
Anand, Gujarat with regional offices throughout the country. NDDB's subsidiaries include Indian Dairy Machinery Company Limited,
Mother Dairy
Mother Dairy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board which is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government of India that manufactures, markets and s ...
and
Indian Immunologicals Limited
Indian Immunologicals Limited or IIL is a subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board. It is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. IIL is registered in India as a Public Limited Company under the Companies Act, 1956 (Ministry Of Corporate Aff ...
, 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.
Meenesh Shah was appointed the Chairman of NDDB in 2021.
Establishment
The NDDB was founded by Dr.
Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 - 9 September 2012), known as the "Father of the White Revolution" in India, was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry a ...
in 1965. The prime minister of India at that time,
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (; 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966 and 6th Home Minister of India from 1961 to 1963. He promoted the White Re ...
, wished to replicate the success of the Kaira Cooperative Milk Producers' Union (
Amul
Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL) is an Indian dairy state government cooperative society, based in Anand, Gujarat.
Formed in 1946, it is a cooperative brand managed by Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which today i ...
) across India.
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.
Between the start of the NDDB's landmark project in 1970, ''
Operation Flood
Operation Flood, launched on 13 January 1970, was the world's largest dairy development program and a landmark project of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's larges ...
'' and its founder's retirement in 1998, India quadrupled its milk production, with the board's technical and organisational support. 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.
The country remains a major dairy-producing nation.
Initiatives
In 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 October 2020, the NDDB launched a "manure management initiative" at the Mujkuva Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS) in Anand district, wherein
biogas
Biogas is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste and food waste. It is a ...
plants are installed by the 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.
In 2000, in accordance of the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the administration of
Ladakh
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to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.
In one innovative approach, NDDB, in collaboration with
All India Radio
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(AIR), launched ''Radio Samvad''—an awareness series on radio for dairy farmers of the
Vidarbha
Vidarbha (Pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ‹id̪əɾbʱə is a geographical region in the east of the Indian state of Maharashtra and a Proposed states and union territories of India#Maharashtra, proposed state of central India, comprising th ...
and
Marathwada
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regions. , 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.
See also
*Mother Dairy
Mother Dairy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board which is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government of India that manufactures, markets and s ...
* Sudha, Bihar State Milk Co-operative Federation
* Nandini, Karnataka Milk Federation
* OMFED, Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation
* Vita, Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd
* Milma, Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
* Aavin, Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited
* Amul, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF)
*Amrita Patel
Amrita Patel is an Indian businessperson associated with cooperative dairy sector as well as environmentalist. She headed National Dairy Development Board from 1998 to 2014 which led the world's biggest dairy development program Operation Flood ...
References
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