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Dairy Sahakar Scheme

Updated: 17 Oct 2025
Ministry: Ministry of Cooperation
Beneficiary: Farmers

Overview

The scheme supports cooperatives to enhance ESG-linked activities and double farmers’ income. Implemented by NCDC from FY 2021-22 to 2025-26, it provides financial assistance with no project cost limits.

Quick facts

  • Purpose: To realise the vision of "from cooperation to prosperity"
  • Project Cost Limit: There is no minimum or maximum cap on project cost
  • Implementing agency: National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC)
  • Tenure: FY 2021-22 to 2025-26.

Objectives

  • Financial assistance for encouraging cooperatives achieve higher outcomes in ESG (environment, sustainability, governance) linked activities and 'doubling the farmers income'.

Salient features

  • Eligibility: Any registered cooperative society or any FPO/SHG (cooperative) with suitable provision in its bye-laws to undertake dairy activities. 
  • Financial support
    • Financial support will be extended by NCDC to eligible cooperatives for activities such as bovine development, procurement, processing, quality assurance, etc.
    • Loan tenure: 5 to 8 years, including 1 to 3 years of moratorium on repayment of principal.
  • Assistance pattern: Assistance shall be provided either through the State Governments/ UT Administrations or directly to the cooperatives.
Infographic listing key supporting activities covered including PET bottle/packaging material manufacturing, R&D, dairy related maintenance services, renewable energy, information and communication technology, and manufacturing of cattle feed/feed supplements.
  • Other key provisions
    • Capacity building of cooperatives by LINAC (Laxmanrao Inamdar National Academy for Cooperative Research and Development).
    • Convergence with other initiatives of Centre or State or Corporate Social Responsibility mechanisms.

About NCDC: 

  • NCDC is an apex level statutory autonomous institution set up under the Act of the Parliament in 1963 exclusively for cooperatives at primary, district, apex / multistate and national level.  
  • It operates on open market principles, without any budgetary support from the Government.