Union code 0001: How a village seeded India’s White Revolution
- March 2, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Union code 0001: How a village seeded India’s White Revolution
Subject: History
Section: Post Independence India
Context:
- Amul, the renowned dairy cooperative, recently celebrated its golden jubilee, marking fifty years of transformative impact in India’s dairy industry.
More on news:
- On October 31, 1964, the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri inaugurated a 50-tonne-per-day cattle feed plant of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union, better known as Amul.
- It laid the basis for the Operation Flood programme that helped turn India into the world’s largest milk producer by 1998.
- Feed factory was opened in Kanjari,about 8 km from the cooperative’s dairy in Anand.
- Amul’s top five DCSs ranked by average milk procurement in 2022-23 were Badharpura (18,609 LPD), Undel (17,429 LPD), Bedva (12,173 LPD), Motipura (10,430 LPD) and Borsad (9,769 LPD). They are all much bigger than Ajarpura.
The start of a revolution:
- The National Dairy Development Board was established in September 1965, with Shastri appointing Kurien as the chairman of this organization having the mandate to replicate the “Anand Pattern”.
- It laid the basis for the Operation Flood programme that helped turn India into the world’s largest milk producer by 1998.
- Ajarpura not only seeded the White Revolution, it was the first Amul dairy cooperative society (DCS) to be registered on August 7, 1947, with a union code of “0001”.
About White Revolution:
- In 1970, India set in motion the ‘White Revolution’, the world’s biggest dairy development program, led by Dr. Verghese Kurien. ‘Operation Flood’.
- White Revolution or Operation Flood, launched on 13 January 1970, was the world’s largest dairy development program and a landmark project of India’s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
- It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world’s largest milk producer, surpassing the United States in 1998 with about 22.29 percent of global output in 2018.
- Within 30 years, it doubled the milk available per person in India and made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustainable rural employment generator.