The revised NPDD focuses on modernizing and expanding dairy infrastructure, ensuring the sector’s sustained growth and productivity, and increasing farmers’ income.
Revised National Program for Dairy Development (NPDD)
- It is a Central Sector Scheme launched in 2014 (restructured in 2021).
- Outlay: Revised NPDD has been enhanced with an additional Rs.1000 crore, bringing the total budget to Rs. 2790 crore for the period of 15th Finance Commission cycle (2021-22 to 2025-26).
- Implementing Agency: Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
- Objectives:
- Establish 10,000 new Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCSs),
- Strengthen milk procurement and processing in the North Eastern Region (NER),
- Formation of 2 Milk Producer Companies (MPCs) with dedicated grant support in addition to the ongoing projects of NPDD,
- Generate an additional 3.2 lakh direct and indirect employment opportunities, focusing on women, which constitute 70% of the dairy workforce.
- The scheme consists of 2 key components:
- Component A: Improving essential dairy infrastructure especially in remote and backward areas by supporting formation of DCSs and MPCs. E.g. milk chilling plants, milk testing laboratories, and certification systems.
- Component B: Dairying through Cooperatives (DTC): Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted programme for sustainable development of dairy cooperatives by improving production, processing, and marketing infrastructure in the 9 States.
Achievements of NPDD
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