NDDB’s core belief is strengthening dairy cooperatives across India. It provides technical and managerial support to enhance governance, financial management, and operational efficiency in cooperative societies. The Dairy Board works on capacity building, policy advocacy, and institutional development to ensure sustainable growth and self-reliance of dairy cooperatives, ultimately benefiting millions of farmers.
NDDB primarily involves itself in promoting and nurturing village dairy cooperative societies, district cooperative milk unions and state cooperative dairy federations. At the same time, it has also expanded its horizons and is now trying to leverage the countrywide network of dairy cooperatives in creating additional livelihood opportunities and better quality of life in villages by suitable interventions in beekeeping, fodder, fruits & vegetables, etc by creating altogether a new set of cooperative institutions.
- To create self-reliant, jointly owned, democratically controlled and professionally managed cooperative institutions, responsive to the socio-economic and cultural expectations of their members.
- Enhancing livelihood security of milk producers for improved quality of life.
- Strengthening dairying as a viable economic enterprise through farmer owned collective
- Promoting good governance in cooperatives- enhanced fairness and transparency in milk procurement operations.
- Promoting enabling legal environment
- Enhancing women participation in the affairs of the dairy cooperatives.
- Capitalising the field outreach of producer collectives for the well being of milk producers through initiatives of (NDDB Foundation for Nutrition)
- Revitalising Promising Producers’ Owned Institution (RPPOI) Scheme
- White Revolution 2.0
- NDDB Scheme to support MDCS/MPACS to initiate milk procurement activities
- Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)
- Implementation of NBHM Scheme
- NDDB Foundation for Nutrition (NFN)
- Managed Projects
