BY: NISHANT PANDEY NISHANT KUMAR NIMISHA SOLANKI PRASHANT URMALIYA MUZAFFAR HUSSAIN

The Co-operative movement started in India in the last decade of the 19th Century. Madras province was the birth-place of this movement. However, the growth of Co-operative movement in India during British rule was very slow and haphazard one. The golden era of Co-operative movement began after India had won freedom. limited to a few pockets of Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore and Gujarat. The most notable of this venture was Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited of Anand, Gujarat In 1965, National Dairy Development Board was set up

The NDDB is an institution of national importance setup by an Act of Parliament. 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. The main office is located in Anand, Gujarat with regional offices throughout the country. NDDB's subsidiaries include Mother Dairy, Delhi Founded by Dr. Verghese Kurien Dr. Amrita Patel is the current Chairman

OPERATION FLOOD
Phase I (19701980)

was financed by the sale of skimmed milk powder and butter oil donated by the European Union (then the European Economic Community) through the World Food Programme

During its first phase, Operation Flood linked 18 of India's premier milk sheds with consumers in India's major metropolitan cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Thus establishing mother dairies in four metros.
increased the milk sheds from 18 to 136;

Phase II (19811985)

290 urban markets expanded the outlets for milk. By the end of 1985,
a self-sustaining system of 42,000 village cooperatives with 42,50,000 milk producers were covered. Domestic milk powder production increased from 22,000 tons in the pre-project year to 1,40,000 tons by 1989,.

Phase III (19851996)

enabled dairy cooperatives to expand and strengthen the infrastructure

Operation Flood's Phase III consolidated India's dairy cooperative movement, adding 30,000 new dairy cooperatives to the 42,000 existing societies organized during Phase II. Milk sheds peaked to 173 in 1988-89 with the numbers of women members and Women's Dairy Cooperative Societies increasing significantly.

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FACTS
The Dairy Cooperative Network (As on March 2010)includes 177 milk unions operates in over 346 districts covers 1,40,227 village level societies is owned by around 14 million farmer members of which 4 million were women. Milk Production India's milk production increased from 21.2 MT in 1968-69 to 104.8 MT in 2007-08 and to 112 MT in 2009-10. Per capita availability of milk was 258 grams per day in 200910 increased from 241grams per day in 2005-06, up from 112 grams per day in 1968-69. India's 3.7 percent annual growth of milk production between 1999-00 and 2009-10 surpasses the 1.8 per cent growth in population; the net increase in availability is around 2 per cent per year.

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Dairy Cooperatives account for the major share of processed liquid milk marketed in the country. Milk is processed and marketed by 170 Milk Producers' Cooperative Unions, which federate into 15 State Cooperative Milk Marketing Federations. The Dairy Board's programmes and activities seek to strengthen the functioning of Dairy Cooperatives, as producer-owned and controlled organizations. NDDB supports the development of dairy cooperatives by providing them financial assistance and technical expertise, ensuring a better future for India's farmers. Over the years, brands created by cooperatives have become synonymous with quality and value. Brands like Amul (GCMMF), Vijaya (AP), Verka (Punjab), Saras (Rajasthan). Nandini (Karnataka), Milma (Kerala) and Gokul (Kolhapur) are among those that have earned customer confidence.

SOME OF THE MAJOR DAIRY COOPERATIVE FEDERATIONS

Andhra Pradesh Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd (APDDCF) Bihar State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (COMPFED) Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd. (HDDCF) Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (HPSCMPF) Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (KMF) Kerala State Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (KCMMF) Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Dairy Federation Ltd (MPCDF) Maharashtra Rajya Sahakari Maryadit Dugdh Mahasangh (Mahasangh) Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (OMFED) Pradeshik Cooperative Dairy Federation Ltd (UP) (PCDF) Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (MILKFED) Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation Ltd (RCDF) Tamilnadu Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (TCMPF) West Bengal Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd. (WBCMPF)

WOMEN DAIRY COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN ORISSA SHOW THE WAY TO EMPOWERING RURAL
WOMEN

A Women Dairy Cooperative Society (WDCS) was formed in Kurunjipur village, in Puri district, in 1996. Among its 30 members was young Parvati Sahoo. Today, Sahoo manages the cooperative society and is an expert in artificial insemination of milch animals.Enthused by the results, she initiated a door-to-door campaign, gradually extending it to adjacent villages, motivating the village women to bring their livestock to the society to be artificially inseminated. She even started a mobile service where she would jump onto her moped armed with a portable cryocan, whenever she was called out on a job. Within four years the village underwent radical changes. More and more crossbreeds were born, resulting in a substantial increase in milk production within the operational area of the society. The socioeconomic status of the rural women improved considerably. Sahoo is held in high esteem in her village. She earns an average monthly income of Rs 3,000. Orissa's rural and semi-urban women are literally `flooding' the districts of Operation Flood. Not only have Women Milk Cooperative Societies (WMCS) multiplied all over the state but their productivity has notably increased.