Karnataka > Dairy Development
Dairy development activities under "Operation Flood" programme pertain to providing guaranteed and remunerative market to the rural milk producers and supply of hygienic milk and milk products to the Urban consumers. Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Ltd (KMF) has been designated as implementing agency for Operation Flood Project. Financial assistance for capital investments in the district Milk Unions flows from National Dairy Development Board. The main objective of KMF is the co-ordination of various phases in production of milk and milk products like procurement, processing, marketing and distribution. The technical input is provided by KMF through milk unions to the farmers of Dairy Co-operative societies.
During the year 1993-94, 205 new dairy co-operative societies have been established and 45,353 farmers have been enrolled, thus bringing the total organised dairy co-operative societies and numbers enrolled to 6,611 and 12, 31,782 respectively. The production of milk (estimated) in the State during 1992-93 was 29.1 lakh tonnes. The total milk procured during 1992-93 was 4.01 lakh tonnes. Karnataka's per capita milk production was only 62.6 kgs as compared to 66.9 kg for the country as a whole. During the year 1998-99, 387 new dairy co-operative societies were established There are 13 Milk Unions, 15 Dairies, two product dairies, 3 cattle feed plants, one bull breeding farm, one frozen semen bank, 4 diagnostic laboratories, 3 liquid nitrogen plants and 4 training centres in the State during 1998-99.
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