National Dairy Plan – Phase I (NDP I) National Dairy Plan – Phase I (NDP I), a Central Sector Scheme implemented from 2011-2012 to 2018-19. NDP I was implemented with a total investment of about ₹ 2,242 Crore, comprising: ₹ 1,584 Crore as International Development Association (IDA) credit ₹ 176 Crore as Govt. of India… Continue reading NDP I
OPERATION FLOOD (1970-1996) – The Foundation for the Perspective Plan OPERATION FLOOD (1970-1996) created a strong foundation to transform India’s dairy sector into a vibrant business activity. It paved the way to take up new initiatives and create new conditions to firm up India’s world leadership in milk production. The new challenge for the Dairy… Continue reading Perspective Plan
The Anand Pattern The Anand Pattern is an integrated cooperative structure that procures, processes and markets produce. Supported by professional management, producers decide their own business policies, adopt modern production and marketing techniques and receive services that they can individually neither afford nor manage. The Anand Pattern succeeds because it involves people in their own… Continue reading The Anand Pattern
Operation Flood: one of the world’s largest rural development programmes. Launched in 1970, Operation Flood has empowered dairy farmers to direct their own development by placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. A National Milk Grid links milk producers across India with consumers in over 700 towns and cities — reducing… Continue reading Operation Flood
