1. Short note – Dr Verghese Kurien
2. What is a cooperative?
3. How did the rise in milk production take
place in Gujarat?
4. What were the measures taken for Operation
Flood?
Answers
Answer:
1. Verghese Kurien, (born November 26, 1921, Kozhikode, Kerala state, India—died September 9, 2012, Nadiad, Gujarat state), Indian engineer and entrepreneur who was regarded as the architect of India’s “white revolution,” which transformed the country from an importer of dairy products to the world’s largest milk producer through a system of farmer cooperatives.
2. a business or organization that is owned and run by all of the people who work for it
3.
Gujarat ranked 5th in milk production
By Our Regional Bureau | Ahmedabad |
Gujarat has been ranked as the fifth largest milk producer in India with a procurement of 6,421 thousand tonne of milk in 2003-04. The nationwide procurement during the period was at 88,082 thousand tonne.
Milk production in the state has been increasing at the rate of nearly five per cent per annum. Experts in the sector are confident that the trend will continue in the future.
Gujarat had produced 4,913 and 6,421 tonne thousands of milk during 1997-98 and 2002-03, respectively
4. Launched in 1970, Operation Flood has helped dairy farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. A National Milk Grid links milk producers throughout India with consumers in over 700 towns and cities, reducing seasonal and regional price variations while ensuring that the producer gets fair market prices in a transparent manner on a regular basis.
The bedrock of Operation Flood has been village milk producers' cooperatives, which procure milk and provide inputs and services, making modern management and technology available to members. Operation Flood's objectives included :
Increase milk production ("a flood of milk")
Augment rural incomes
Reasonable prices for consumers