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

From Milk Shortage to Milk Surplus In 1946, a group of dairy farmers in Kaira district, Gujarat, were tired of being exploited. The Polson Dairy company, which held a monopoly on milk collection, paid them a fraction of fair prices. Under the guidance of Tribhuvandas Patel and a young engineer named Verghese Kurien, these farmers […]

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