Tribute to THE MILK MAN OF THE WORLD & FATHER OF WHITE REVOLUTION - DR. V KURIEN. Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012) was a renowned Indian social entrepreneur and is best known as the Father of the White Revolution,[2] for his billion-litre idea (Operation Flood) — the worlds biggest agricultural development programme.[3] The operation took India from being a milk-deficient nation, to the largest milk producer in the world, surpassing the United States of America in 1998,[4] with about 17 percent of global output in 2010–11, which in 30 years doubled the milk available to every person,.[5] Dairy farming became India’s largest self-sustaining industry.[6] He made the country self-sufficient in edible oils too later on,[7] taking head-on the powerful and entrenched oil supplying lobby. He founded around 30 institutions of excellence (like AMUL, GCMMF, IRMA, NDDB) which are owned, managed by farmers and run by professionals. As the founding chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), Kurien was responsible for the creation and success of the Amul brand of dairy products. A key achievement at Amul was the invention[8] of milk powder processed from buffalo milk[9] (abundant in India), as opposed to that made from cow-milk, in the then major milk producing nations. His achievements with the Amul dairy led Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri to appoint him as the founder-chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965, to replicate Amuls Anand model nationwide.[3] One of the greatest proponents of the cooperative movement in the world, his work has alleviated millions out of poverty not only in India but also outside. Hailed as the Milkman of India, Kurien won several awards including the Padma Vibhushan (Indias second-highest civilian honour), the World Food Prize and the Magsaysay Award for community leadership. drkurien/
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