Formation of Erode District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union The next step towards implementation of Operation Flood Programme was formation of the Producers’ Union, the apex body of the primary milk producers’ cooperatives to which all primary cooperatives will be affiliated. The Union will set up milk processing and product manufacturing facilities and provide production inputs like Animal…
Govt Interference in Cooperatives One of the main reasons for Govt’s interference in the working of the cooperatives is Govt’s participation in the cooperatives’ share capital. Most of the cooperatives are in loss and heavily dependent on Govt’s financial assistance. When the cooperatives do not return such assistance, the assistance is converted into share capital…
Audit of Anand Pattern Cooperatives As per the bylaws of Anand Pattern cooperatives, 50 % of the profits earned by the society were to be distributed as bonus to its members, based on the transaction each member had with the cooperative. After the first set of cooperatives had completed its first financial year (1974-75), I…
State Bank of India Loan for Milch Animals Loan was synonymous with cooperative. When we talked to farmers on formation of cooperatives, the first question invariably asked was whether we will give loan for purchase of milch animals (cows and buffaloes). Rightly so, most of the milk cooperatives formed were for advancing loans. Loan was…
Take over Nilgiri Dairy As the days passed, the Spearhead Team organised several cooperatives, covering most of the potential villages from where Nilgiri Dairy Farm (NDF) and other private agencies procured milk. We intensified our extension activities and educated the farmers: how the private sector operated and exploited the producers. The private sector made huge…
Don’t Open Account with Cooperative Bank! But why ? When the first set of Anand Pattern cooperatives were ready, we had to open its accounts with a bank. The team was particular that the accounts were opened with the district cooperative bank. However, to our surprise, the Deputy Milk Commissioner Cooperation advised us to open…
Dr. Madhavan shares his reminiscences in a series of articles. He has named these memoirs as “Feast of Memories”. Spearhead Team was an innovative intervention for replication of a successful organisational system of cooperative dairying in Anand to other parts of India. Dr Madhavan talks about pricing system of milk and interaction between the Spearhead…
Dr E Madhavan a veteran of the National Dairy Development Board started his career with Kheda District Milk Producers Union Limited , Anand. He later joined the newly formed Farmers Organisation and Animal Husbandry Group at the National Dairy Development Board in early seventies. Initiation of Anand Pattern Milk Producers Cooperatives in Tamilnadu Anand Pattern…
Dr E Madhavan a veteran of the good old National Dairy Development Board started his career with Kheda District Milk Producers Union Limited , Anand. He later joined the newly formed Farmers Organisation and Animal Husbandry Group at the National Dairy Development Board in early seventies. Dr A. A Chothani, Dr. SP Mittal, Dr. SN…
In this concluding episode Dr. Madavan talks about the bond of cooperative spirit and personal chemistry that Dr. Kurien and the founder Chairman of Erode District Milk Producers Cooperative Union Thiru Paramasivan developed over the years. There can not be a better person than Dr Madhavan who with his team was a witness and an…
Goodbye Erode Milk Union Manthan, a feature film, produced by the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation depicted the saga of the NDDB Spearhead Team replicating “Anand Pattern” milk cooperative in a remote village. This film directed by Shyam Benegal focuses on formation of a village level Milk Producers Cooperative. The Spearhead Team and it Leader…
Dr. V Kurien, founder Chairman, NDDB visits Erode Whenever I went to NDDB, Anand, on official work, I used to request Dr V Kurien, Chairman NDDB to pay a visit to Erode to look up the work of the NDDB spearhead team. Dr Kurien agreed, but on condition that I took him to the school…
