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…
Rural Health Foundation Erode was known as an important health centre right from the days of the British. There was a well-equipped government hospital and several private hospitals in Erode. In all, there were more than 300 medical practitioners in Erode. People from all over the district come to Erode for availing medical treatment. The Kaira District Cooperative…
Erode MLA visits Anand Pattern Cooperatives After several requests, Ma Subramaniam, Erode MLA agreed to visit one Anand Pattern Cooperative: Semboothampalayam. It was agreed that I will pick him from his Erode residence at 6 am. I reported at Mr Subramanian’s residence exactly at 6 am. I was asked to wait as the MLA was…
Dr. Madhavan shares his reminiscences in a series of articles. He has named these memoirs as “Feast of Memories”. He shares some interesting incidents that happened during the time cooperatives were being organised in the villages of Erode. Aramugam did not have to shave off his moustaches Aramugam belonged to a village called Chavadipalayampudur. He was one…
Dr LK Muthuswamy Dr LK Muthuswamy was the President of the Erode Cooperative Milk Supply Union. Established in 1962, this Union was responsible for collection of milk from villages and marketing it in Erode town. Vendors collected milk from the farmers in villages and brought it to Erode where it was chilled in the Union’s…
Meeting Thiru SK Paramsivan at his village Chinniampalayam. Thiru Paramsivan now 102 became the founder Chairman of Erode District Milk Producers Cooperative Union On a hot afternoon, I visited Chinniampalayam, a village ten kms from Erode, to meet Mr SK Paramasivan, a progressive farmer, cooperator and a former Member of the Parliament. After preliminary introduction,…
Dr. Madhavan shares his reminiscences in a series of articles. He has named these memoirs as “Feast of Memories”. In this edition he talks about thebasic ground work done for formation of Anand Pattern Milk Producers Society in Erode. In order to ascertain the actual Fat and SNF contents in milk, I collected milk samples…
Dr Kurien’s advice in 1980 to the then Chairman of the Union was “ The only way to become strong was for the farmers co-operative to own and manage the operations of their own milk processing plant” . He had told Shri. Anandrao Patil to purchase a parcel of land near Kolhapur, and NDDB would…
That evening Dr. Kurien and I returned to our Hotel after a series of International Dairy Federation meetings in Frankfurt. We were tired as the meetings lasted long with little time for breaks. Dr. Kurien naturally wanted to have a some rest so we went to our respective rooms. At around 7 pm Dr. Kuried…
Dr. Kurien was a very witty person. His wits often had no end. He was so good at cracking jokes on himself. It is an incident of the period I was posted as Counsellor, Embassy of India, Brussels (Belgium). I used to look after travel and stay arrangements during his visits to Europe those days…..
International Standards for global trade for all foods including milk products come under the purview of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the WHO, who in turn appointed International Dairy Federation (IDF) as it Advisor for draft standards on milk and milk products. In 1995, Dr. Kurien appointed me as the Secretary of the Indian…
