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November 26, 2021 was the “Milk Man of India” VergheseKurien’s 100th birth anniversary.

·         VergheseKurien was the Founder Chairman of National Dairy Development Board from 1965 to 1998.

·         He is the architect of India’s White Revolution, which helped India emerge as the largest milk producer in the world.

·         In the late 60s Dr. Kurien Drew up a project known as Operation Flood.

·         Through an investment of Rs. 1700 crores spread across twenty five years, Operation Flood helped to raise India’s milk production in worth terms to Rs. 55000 crores {per annum|once a year|every year|each year} an output.

·         It is on it foundation that Kurien went on to style his plan of Amul as a cooperative, turned it over the years into a world brand, and under the leadership of H.M. Dalaya, a distinguished dairy farm engineer, Amul achieved a breakthrough in converting buffalo milk into skimmed milk powder and condensed milk.

·         It was one single innovation that gave Amul a definite competitive advantage and profoundly modified the lives of milk producers in Gujarat and beyond Amul continues to remain one of India’s known food brands and is an inspiration to different dairy farm cooperatives like Nandini in Karnataka, Aavin in Tamil Nadu and Verka in Punjab The co-operative model was additionally influenced by gandhian thinking on poverty alleviation and social transformation Kurien also revolutionized the edible oil business by introducing ‘Dhara’.

·         Launched in 1979, the Oilseeds Grower’s Cooperative Project established a direct link between the producers and customers of oil so reducing the role of oil traders and oil exchanges, inorder to stabilize oil costs, offer an incentive to the seed grower to raise production and reduce India’s dependence on oil imports.

·         He started the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) at Anand in 1979 to provide management coaching and analysis support to the cooperatives being established everywhere the country.

·         He facilitated the restructuring the National Co-operative Dairy Federation of India, in 1988, to provide a National level body for the country’s State Co-operative dairy federations.

·         He conjointly served as Founder Chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk marketing Federation Ltd, from 1973 to 2006.

·         VergheseKurien won many accolades and awards including the Ramon Magsasay Award for Community Leadership, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, KrishiRatna Award, Wateler Peace Prize Award of Carnegie Foundation, World Food Prize Laureate, International Person of the Year by the globe dairy farm Expo, Madison, Wisconsin, USA and also the Padma Vibhushan.


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