Q. What is AKASHGANGA?

A.. AKASHGANGA (meaning “Milky Way”) is a popular brand under which we deliver our goods and services.

Q. What is a dairy Cooperative Society?

A.. The Dairy co-operative movement began at ANAND in Gujarat[India] and the model has been replicated in 101,000 villages in about 200 Districts[provinces] of India. The village Dairy co-operative is a society of milk producers formed under the guidance of a of the district level co-operative owning the processing plant. A milk producer becomes a member by buying a share of the co-operative society. Dairy Co-Operative members elect a managing committee and a chairperson responsible to oversee day-to-day operations of the society. Each society has a milk collection centre where farmers bring milk each morning and evening. The number of such village milk producers' co-operative societies is now over one million, and the daily procurement of milk by the co-operatives is 17 million liters. The cooperative shares its profit amongst its members.

Q. Who can be a member of the society ?

  A.. A person residing in the village who subscribes to the shares of a dairy cooperative and owns a milch animal.  

Q. What is a District Milk Union ?

  A.. A District Milk union is an affiliate of all the Village dairy cooperatives in that particular district.  

Q.. Why milk is collected by village dairy cooperative milk society?

  A.. It is a central coordinating agency in the village where all farmers have easy access and can deposit the milk produced.  

Q.. What do you mean by automatic milk collection?

  A.. See product details.

 Q. What is Amul and Anand Pattern of milk collection ?

A.. See http://www.amul.com/

Q. What is NDDB ?

A.. NDDB (National Dairy Development Board) was created in 1965 in response to the then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's call to 'transplant the spirit of Anand in many other places.' He wanted the Anand model of dairy development -- with institutions owned by rural producers, which are sensitive to their needs and responsive to their demands -- replicated in other parts of the country. He said in a letter addressed to the State Chief Ministers, "We envisage a large programme of co-operative dairies during the Fourth Plan and this will, no doubt, be based on the Anand model. If we can transplant the spirit of Anand in many other places, it will also result in rapidly transforming the socio-economic conditions of the rural areas." He decided that the Government of India would create a body, whose job would be to replicate 'Anand.' It would be headed by Dr Verghese Kurien, the then General Manager of the Kheda District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Limited (AMUL). In the late sixties, the Board drew up a project called Operation Flood (OF) -- meant to create a flood of milk in India's villages -- with funds mobilized from foreign food donations. Producers' co-operatives were the central plank of the project, which sought to link dairy development with milk marketing.

See http://www.nddb.com/

Q. What is the structure of Dairy Co-operative ?

Q. What is the Dairy Network of India ?