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National Milk Day: Date, history and why is it celebrated
4 weeks, 1 day ago

National Milk Day: Date, history and why is it celebrated

India Today  

National Milk Day is celebrated annually on November 26 in India to honor the significant contributions of milk and the dairy industry to the country's development. National Milk Day celebrates the importance of milk as a vital source of nutrition and its role in the economic growth of rural India. The day highlights the achievements of Dr. Verghese Kurien and …

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Cannes 2024: Amul MD on restored ‘Manthan’, India’s first crowdfunded film
7 months ago

Cannes 2024: Amul MD on restored ‘Manthan’, India’s first crowdfunded film

The Hindu  

On May 17, something remarkable unfolded at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, released 48 years ago, was India’s first crowdfunded film: 5,00,000 farmers donated ₹2 each to bring the project to fruition. His modernising efforts liberated dairy farmers from the clutch of monopolisers, turned India into the world’s leading milk producer and transformed the Anand Milk Union Limited into …

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Does India have room for a dairy behemoth?
1 year, 7 months ago

Does India have room for a dairy behemoth?

Live Mint  

New Delhi: On an October morning in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri, then Prime Minister of India, was engrossed in a conversation. Shastri asked Verghese Kurien, then general manager of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union, and the architect of India’s White Revolution, the world’s largest dairy development programme that began in 1970. Successful ones like the Gujarat Cooperative Milk …

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Need for Indian model of localisation to achieve SDGs 2030: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman
2 years, 1 month ago

Need for Indian model of localisation to achieve SDGs 2030: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman

The Hindu  

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Suman Bery emphasised the need for the Indian model of localisation to achieve Social Development Goals 2030 set by the United Nations. Mr. Bery said the Indian model of SDG localisation has four pillars: creating institutional ownership, establishing a robust review and monitoring system, developing capacities for integrating SDGs in planning and monitoring and promoting a "whole …

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A white touch to a refreshed green revolution
3 years ago

A white touch to a refreshed green revolution

The Hindu  

November 26, 2021 was celebrated in Anand, Gujarat as the 100th birth anniversary of Verghese Kurien, the leader of India’s ‘white revolution’, which increased the incomes and the wealth of millions of cattle-owning small farmers in India, many of them women. November 26, 2021 also marked one year from the day when thousands of crop-growing farmers, who have been the …

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National Milk Day 2021: All you need to know about 'Father of White Revolution’ Dr Verghese Kurien – Firstpost
3 years ago

National Milk Day 2021: All you need to know about 'Father of White Revolution’ Dr Verghese Kurien – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Kurien was also the brains behind ‘Operation Flood,’ which led dairy farming to become largest self-sustaining industry in the country as well as the largest rural employment sector. The National Milk Day is also observed to mark the birth anniversary of Dr Verghese Kurien who is also known as the ‘Father of White Revolution’ in the country. Here is all …

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India has an edible oil problem, but palm oil won't fix it
3 years, 3 months ago

India has an edible oil problem, but palm oil won't fix it

Live Mint  

M V. Ramoji Rao is a seasoned dentist and a busy one too. About three years ago, many farmers in Rao’s district had uprooted their plantations when the price of fresh fruit bunches of oil palm hovered around ₹8,000 a tonne—less than half of the current market price. Cheap palm oil, nearly all of it imported, accounts for over a …

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