National Dairy Development Board

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a statutory body set up by an Act of the Parliament of India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government of India.[1] The main office is in Anand, Gujarat with regional offices throughout the country. NDDB's subsidiaries include Indian Dairy Machinery Company Limited, Mother Dairy and Indian Immunologicals Limited, Hyderabad.[2] The Board was created to finance and support producer-owned and controlled organisations. Its programmes and activities seek to strengthen farmer cooperatives and support national policies that are favourable to the growth of such institutions. Cooperative principles and cooperative strategies are fundamental to the board's efforts.[3]

National Dairy Development Board
TypeStatutory body
Industry
Dairy industry regulation
FoundedJuly 1965, 16 (16-07-1965)
FounderDr Verghese Kurien
HeadquartersAnand, Gujarat (India)
OwnerMinistry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India
DivisionsNational Dairy Development Board Dairy Services
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.nddb.coop

Meenesh Shah is currently the Chairman of NDDB.[4]

History

The NDDB was founded by Dr Verghese Kurien in 1965. It was created to fulfil the desire of the then-prime minister of India — Lal Bahadur Shastri to extend the success of the Kaira Cooperative Milk Producers' Union (Amul) to other parts of India.[5]

In year 2012, under the national dairy plan (NDP) programme, NDDB had initiated plans to boost dairy farming by targeting 40,000 villages in 14 major milk producing states including Punjab.[6] The project was aimed at covering about 2.7 million milch animals in these states.[6][7]

In October 2020, the NDDB launched a "manure management initiative" at the Mujkuva Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS) in Anand district, wherein biogas plants are installed by the dairy farmers outside their residences for producing gas to be used as cooking fuel. In addition to biogas, bio-slurry produced from these biogas plants will also be used by the farmers in their own fields for soil conditioning. Surplus bio-slurry can be sold to other farmers or converted into organic fertilisers.[8]

In 2000, in accordance of the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the administration of Ladakh to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.[9][10]

Other Initiatives

In one innovative approach, NDDB, in collaboration with All India Radio (AIR), launched Radio Samvad—an awareness series on radio for dairy farmers of the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions. It was planned to be broadcast as twice weekly, 30-minute episodes from Nagpur, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Osmanabad and Nanded radio stations on subjects related to scientific dairy animal management. Subject experts from NDDB conduct the sessions.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Dilip Rath appointed as NDDB chairman". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  2. "राष्ट्रीय डेयरी विकास बोर्ड (एनडीडीबी) - NDPI". पीएम योजना,केंद्रीय और राज्य सरकार योजनाओं, केंद्रीय मंत्रालयों और सरकारी विभागों पर समाचार प्राप्त करें (in Hindi). 12 October 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  3. "National Dairy Development Board official website".
  4. National Dairy Development Board (25 June 2021). "Meenesh Shah takes over additional charge of Chairman, NDDB" (Press release). Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  5. Gupta, Sharad (26 November 2019). "Remembering Verghese Kurien – India's first milkman". businessline. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  6. "NDDB plans to boost dairy farming in Punjab". Hindustan Times. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  7. "Dairy development by NDDB in India". Dairy Industries International. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  8. "Anand district: NDDB begins initiative for dairy farmers on manure management". The Indian Express. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  9. "NDDB to promote dairying in Ladakh, inks MoU with UT - Vadodara News". The Times of India. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  10. "NDDB to build 3 new dairy plants in Jharkhand at cost of Rs 90 crore". The Times of India. 1 November 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
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