National Dairy Development Board

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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.{{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}} 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.{{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}}

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.{{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}} 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.{{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}} The country remains a major dairy-producing nation.{{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 }}

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

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.{{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}}

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.{{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}}{{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}}

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.

• {{annotated link|Amrita Patel}}, head of NDDB 1998–2014
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• Aavin, the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
• Amul, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd
• Bihar State Milk Co-operative Federation, producers of the Sudha dairy brand
• Karnataka Milk Federation, producers of the Nandini brand
• Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, trade name: Milma
• Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd, brand name: Vita
• Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation (OMFED)

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• [https://www.nddb.coop/ National Dairy Development Board]

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