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Dairy Cooperative

Builders of India: Verghese Kurien - How Operation Flood Made India the World's Largest Milk Producer

Operation Flood, led by Verghese Kurien, made India the world's largest milk producer by 1998 through cooperatives serving over 70 million farming families.

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India's Cooperative Movement and the Dairy Network That Changed a Nation

India became the world's largest milk producer through farmer-owned cooperatives, from Kaira in 1946 to Operation Flood. This article explains how the network works and who it serves.