“The Amul” cooperative in Anand (Gujarat) is an initiative to decentralize the
collection of milk for the benefit of the low income of milk producers. Prepare a
project on Amul. Find information on the following. You can add more points.
Collect facts about the functioning of “AMUL”.
How has it transformed the lives of the small farmers, milk producers and women?
How Information and Communication Technology and banks are giving support?
Benefits of Having Co-operatives.
Do you know about the “AMUL GIRL”.
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- The White Revolution, known as Operation Flood, was launched in 1970. It was an initiative by India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and was the world's biggest dairy development programme. It transformed India from a milk deficient nation into the world's largest milk producers.
- The White Revolution in India helped in reducing malpractice by traders and merchants. It also helped in eradicating poverty and made India the largest producer of milk and milk products. Operation Flood empowered the dairy farmers with control of the resource created by them.
- 10 Key Features of ‘White Revolution in India’
- Adopting new methods in case of cattle in animal husbandry.
- Changing of composition of feed ingredients in different proportions.
- Fixing of different producer costs on a sliding scale of India.
- Small, farmer controlled network was created through the dairy cooperatives.
- India became highest dairy producer in the world from 1998 onwards surpassing the USA, in 2010-11 India contributed to about 17% of the global output in milk production.
- In 30 years, milk available per person doubled in India.
- India’s total milk production output, increased by 4 times due to the successful implementation of the white revolution.
- Helped eliminate middlemen and provided 70-80% of the price by the consumers to the farmers.
- Phenomenal growth in Milk Production in the country from 20 million MT to 100 million MT in a span of 40 years.
- The dairy cooperative movement has spread across the length and breadth of the country, covering more than 125,000 villages of 180 Districts in 22 States.
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