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National Milk Day (India)

India's milk day, on the birthday of Verghese Kurien, the engineer who built the cooperative dairies of Operation Flood.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at National Milk Day (India)

National Milk Day has been marked in India since 2014 on 26 November, the birthday of Verghese Kurien (1921 to 2012). Kurien went to Anand in Gujarat as a young government engineer, stayed to manage a small milk cooperative, and built it into a model that farmers' unions copied across the country. Operation Flood, which he led from 1970, linked village cooperatives to city markets, and India became the world's largest milk producer. The day is kept by dairy cooperatives, veterinary colleges and schools with talks, milk drinks and awards for farmers. Much of India's milk comes from buffaloes as well as cattle, from small herds of two or three animals.

The breeds

GirThe Gujarati dairy breed of the cooperative country.KankrejA north Gujarat breed of the Banaskantha milk unions.SahiwalOne of the best dairy breeds of the subcontinent.Red SindhiA heat-tolerant dairy breed widely used in crossbreeding.Holstein FriesianUsed to breed the crossbred cows of many cooperative herds.JerseyCrossed with local cows in southern and eastern India.
About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Verghese Kurien" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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