CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -In 2000, in accordance of the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the administration of Ladakh to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -To create additional milk processing capacity for increased value addition by producing more dairy products. To bring efficiency in dairy processing plants/producer owned and controlled dairy institutions, thereby enabling optimum value of milk to milk producer farmers and supply of quality milk to consumers.

Detailed explanation-3: -With headquarters in Anand, Gujarat, NDDB was created to boost, finance and support producer-owned and controlled organisations in the dairy industry.

Detailed explanation-4: -National Dairy Plan-I (NDP-I) Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF)

Detailed explanation-5: -The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was founded in 1965 to replace exploitation with empowerment, tradition with modernity, stagnation with growth, transforming dairying into an instrument for the development of India’s rural people.