Small farmers are the real power of the dairy sector, an example for the world, India’s network of dairy cooperatives: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the World Dairy Conference held in Greater Noida today i.e. on Monday. Addressing the people present on the occasion, he said that this event is being held at a time when India has completed 75 years of its independence. Along with this, he also welcomed and felicitated the farmer colleagues at the World Dairy Summit.

Describing the business related to livestock and milk as the culture of India for thousands of years, the Prime Minister said that this heritage of the country has empowered the dairy sector. He mentioned those features to the experts participating from other countries in this conference. He said that unlike other developed countries of the world, the real strength of dairy sector in India is small farmers.

India’s dairy sector is characterized by “production by masses” more than “mass production”. Due to the hard work of the small farmers of the country and their livestock, today India is the largest milk producing country in the whole world. Today this sector provides employment to more than 8 crore families of India. You can hardly find this uniqueness of dairy sector in India anywhere else.

He said that India’s dairy model can become a great business model for the farmers of many poor countries of the world.
Praising India’s dairy sector, Prime Minister Modi said that this specialty of India’s dairy sector gets tremendous support from yet another uniqueness. The second feature of our dairy sector is India’s Dairy Cooperative System. Today there is such a huge network of Dairy Cooperative in India, whose example is difficult to find in the whole world.

These dairy cooperatives collect milk twice a day from about 20 million farmers in more than two lakh villages of the country, and deliver it to the customers. There is no middle man in the whole process, and more than 70 percent of the money received from the customers goes directly into the pockets of the farmers. Due to the digital revolution taking place in India, most of the transactions in the dairy sector have started happening very fast. I understand that the study of Dairy Cooperatives of India, information about them, the digital payment system developed in the dairy sector, can be of great use to the farmers of many countries of the world.
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