WHITE REVOLUTION - REMEMBERING A PIONEER



The credit for India becoming one of the chief milk producing nations of the world goes to Dr. Verghese Kurien, pioneer of the White Revolution, a legend who made it possible with his cooperative movement in the state of Gujarat, with "Amul" becoming a leading brand in the world...

Dr. Kurien’s able management of the National Dairy Development Board's "Operation Flood" resulted in a sea of change in the milk producing sector. With his experimentation of buffalo milk products, Dr. Kurien almost dislodged the then Nestle monopoly...

The world's largest dairy development programme launched on 13th January 1970 under his chairmanship, along with help from the Kaira district milk producers Union in 1973 reaped rewards with the formation of milk cooperatives, with rural farmers getting directly connected to consumers. India thus topped the world's list of milk producers in two decades...

Colleagues remembered Dr. Kurien as a man with amazing charm and wit, always steadfast in protecting the interests of farmers from any quarters, be it local, official, bureaucratic or ministerial. The NDDB treasury swelled by over INR 3000 crores by the time he called it a day, in 1998...

The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner in 1964, Dr. Kurien was conferred the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan in 1965 and 1966 respectively. This was followed by the World Food Prize - a Nobel Prize equivalent - in 1989, Order of Agricultural Merit in 1997, and the Padma Vibhushan in 1999...

The Father of the White Revolution in India, Dr. Kurien breathed his last this day, 2012, due to kidney complications, in Nadiad, Gujarat. He was 90...

"The utterly butterly MILKMAN", a book commemorating Dr. Kurien’s birth centenary curated by his daughter Nirmala, is a heartfelt tribute to the visionary who revolutionised the milk industry in India, with his unflinching faith in the farming fraternity of his nation...

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