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Stating that India is acceptable for the 2nd ‘White Revolution’, Meenesh C. Shah, Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) underscored a request for the nation’s dairy assemblage to commencement focussing much connected worth summation and exports to summation margins and husbandman incomes.
Mr. Shah was addressing a State-level seminar jointly organised by NDDB and the Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Milma) present to people the UN-declared ‘International Year of Cooperatives’ observance and the diamond jubilee celebrations of NDDB.
White Revolution 2 progressive strengthening dairy cooperatives crossed the country, and expanding beverage procurement to much than 10 crore litres per time implicit the adjacent four-five years by bringing much farmers into their fold, helium said. “We person present started conceptualising White Revolution 2,” helium said.
NDDB has kicked disconnected initiatives with respect to breeding, wellness and nutrition for improving productivity which poses a large situation successful the sector, helium said. Other challenges see tackling adulteration of beverage and beverage products and improving the stock of the organised beverage sector, according to him.
Despite the advancement made by the dairy sector, 60% to 65% of beverage successful the state is inactive handled by the unorganised sector. NDDB is moving with a imaginativeness to heighten the stock of the organised beverage assemblage from 65% to 70%, helium said. Another thrust country is improving the stock of worth added products, helium said.
Boosting incomes
For providing amended income to the farmers for the aforesaid quantity of milk, it is important that cooperatives enactment towards a ample stock of worth added products. Equally important is preparing the country’s dairy assemblage for the export marketplace implicit the adjacent 10 to 25 years, Mr. Shah said. At present, India’s exports relationship for .5% of the planetary market, helium said. The prevalence of foot-and-mouth illness (FMD) successful India is simply a large hurdle that needs to beryllium flooded erstwhile eyeing exports, helium said, adding that vaccination programmes person ensured a simplification successful FMD outbreaks.
Minister for Animal Husbandry J. Chinchurani, who inaugurated the seminar, said Kerala has the imaginable to go India’s largest beverage producer. The State aims to attain self-sufficiency successful beverage accumulation by slashing accumulation costs and improving productivity, she said.
Milma president K.S. Mani, NDDB Executive Director S. Rajeev, chairpersons of the Thiruvananthapuram and Ernakulam Regional Co-operative Milk Producers’ Unions Mani Viswanath and Valsalan Pillai, Dairy Development manager Shalini Gopinath, Milma managing manager Asif K. Yusuf and Kerala Bank main enforcement serviceman Jorty M. Chacko were besides present.
