IIMF has successfully brought together 2500 women running a small milk supply chain for the past two years, entirely self financed (INR 4.5 million). This has instantly enhanced a 40 percent return to the milk producers that was a leak in the value chain. This value addition to their tiny milk surplus is encouraging women to enhance production for higher returns. In this background a women milk producer’s company started evolving as sustainable membership based interface with external markets.
This proposal is to organize 40,000 rural women milk producers to form 550 village level producer institutions into a legal entity under the (producer) companies act, to create infrastructure in the form of establishing 22 bulk milk cooling facilities to procure, chill and market quality liquid bulk milk to earn additional incomes with transparent, technologically advanced, professionally managed and producer centric systems.

The NGO GRAM Abhyudaya Mandali has promoted the CBO. The CBO is now a direct expanding organization diversifying to bring in more development inclusion, under the lead role of women, to begin with dairying. The role transformation made GRAM a back end supporter of the CBO. GRAM is supporting IIMF’s dairy initiative.

India is a lead country in the [...]

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