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J. Naga Jyothi of Garigachinnepalle successful Chittoor territory owns 23 cows. Last year, her beverage fetched ₹28.3 lakh and the “Best Woman Dairy Farmer 2025” grant from the Indian Dairy Association’s (IDA) Andhra Pradesh chapter.
G. Cheritha of Debbanahalli, a colony successful confederate Karnataka, stands a rung higher. With 70 cows and 15 employees connected her payroll, she generated a beverage measure of ₹48 lakh past year, the highest earned by immoderate azygous subordinate of Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company Limited (SMMPCL), the world’s largest women-owned beverage enterprise.
Headquartered astatine Tirupati, the cooperative is owned by the precise women who proviso it, and was promoted by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
Lakhpati Didis
What started astatine the ft of the Tirumala hills successful 2014 arsenic a tiny instauration with conscionable 27 women pooling their beverage has contiguous transformed into a mammoth organisation involving 1.4 lakh women beverage suppliers hailing from 5,000 villages dispersed crossed the 4 confederate States.
While the Union authorities has formally unveiled the conception of “Lakhpati Didis” (rural women earning much than ₹1 lakh a year) recently, Shreeja has created 29,000 specified women implicit the past 11 years, including Ms. Naga Jyothi and Ms. Cheritha.
At a clip erstwhile the dairy assemblage is known to output little margins and unpaid household labour, these 29,000 Lakhpati Didis took location a corporate income of ₹694 crore implicit the past fiscal year.
Shreeja’s “Lakhpati Didis” received laurels connected nationalist platforms from the Union Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairying S. P. Singh Baghel for their publication to the agrarian dairy economy, which besides ran concurrently with the Centre’s ngo of gathering 3 crore Lakhpati Didis crossed the country.
Integrated plant
Expanding its vision, Shreeja is present launching an integrated dairy and cattle-feed works with a immense concern of ₹280 crore connected the 47-acre tract allotted by the Andhra Pradesh authorities successful Kuppam constituency, represented by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. NDDB executes the task connected a turnkey ground for Shreeja.
“Shreeja presently supplies astir 6 lakh litres of beverage each time to New Delhi-based Mother Dairy. Once the works is operational, we volition commencement making beverage powder, food and ghee, too generating 200 metric tonnes of cattle feed,” says its main enforcement S. R. Thimmappa.
As Shreeja is moving towards bringing 1 lakh women into the “Lakhpati Didi” bracket implicit the adjacent 2 years, the renewed imaginativeness present is to make “Crorepati Didis” by diversifying the procurement handbasket and widening the recognition pipeline.
