BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
IMPROVEMENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION
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Dr. G Nammalvar
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Abdul Rashid
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Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose
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Dr. V. Kurien
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Detailed explanation-1: -Verghese Kurien was the Founder Chairman of National Dairy Development Board from 1965 to 1998. He is the architect of India’s White Revolution, which helped India emerge as the largest milk producer in the world. In the late 60s Dr. Kurien drew up a project called Operation Flood.
Detailed explanation-2: -Operation Flood: one of the world’s largest rural development programmes. Launched in 1970, Operation Flood has helped dairy farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands.
Detailed explanation-3: -Operation Flood was launched in 1970 under Dr. Kurien. This program linked all the milk producers across India to the consumers in over more than 600 towns and cities reducing the seasonal and regional price of milk.
Detailed explanation-4: -Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921-9 September 2012), known as the “Father of the White Revolution” in India, was a social entrepreneur whose “billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustaining industry and the largest rural employment sector providing a third of all rural income.
Detailed explanation-5: -Operation Flood started in the year 1970 and was aimed to create a nationwide milk grid. It was a rural development programme initiated by NDDB – National Dairy Development Board of India.