Cooperatives for Milk, Milk Products and Animal Feed
Department of Animal Husbandry
and Dairying, Government of India is implementing “National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD)” scheme across
the country since Feb-2014 with an objective of creating/strengthening of
infrastructure for production of quality milk, Procurement, Processing and
Marketing of Milk and Milk products.
The scheme has been
restructured/realigned in July2021. The restructured NPDD Scheme will be
implemented from 2021-22 to 2025-26 with a total outlay of Rs.1790 crore. The
restructured scheme has two components:
Component'A' focuses towards
creating/strengthening of infrastructure for quality milk testing equipment as
well as primary chilling facilities.
Component'B' (Dairying through Cooperatives-DTC) provides
financial assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for
creation of necessary dairy infrastructure, providing market linkages for the
produce in villages and for strengthening of capacity building of stake-holding
institutions from village to State level.
Financial Progress:
Component A:
191 projects in 28
States and 2 Union Territory have been approved with the total cost of
Rs.3053.03 crore (Central Share Rs.2321.22 crore) from 2014-15 to 2022-23
(30.06.2023). A total sum of Rs.1795.60 crore hasbeen released for
implementation of these projects up to 18.07.2023. An amount of Rs.1321.53crore
has been utilized under the approved projects.
Component B:
In total 22 projects
has been approved with a total project cost of Rs 1130.64 Cr having loan
component of Rs705.54 Cr, grant component of Rs 329.70 Cr and Producer
Institutions (PIs) share of Rs 95.37 Cr. A total grant of Rs 9.30 Cr has been
released to National Dairy Development Board for further disbursement to PIs
for the implementation of the projects.
Government of India
(GoI) has approved the “Dairying through Cooperatives-Key to Sustainable
livelihood” project as Component B of the National Programme for Dairy
Development (NPDD) scheme. The project will be implemented from 2021-22 to
2025-26 and will continue till 2027-28 with the total outlay of Rs. 1568.28
Crore comprising Rs.924.56 Crore as an Official Development Assistance(ODA)
loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Rs.475.54 Crore as
Government of India’s (GoI) contribution and Rs.168.18Croreas
State/Participating Institution’s (PI) contribution.
The major objective of
the project is to increase sales of milk and dairy products by increasing
farmers' access to organized market, upgrading dairy processing facilities and
marketing infrastructure and enhancing the capacity of producers owned
institutions, there by contributing to increase in returns to milk producers in
the project tarea”. The project is being implemented in 9 states namely Bihar,
Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana,
Uttarakhand and West Bengal. The schemes upports the establishment Milk
Processing Facilities and Manufacturing Facilities (milk & milk products
and cattle feed).
This information was given by Parshottam
Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying in a
written reply in Lok Sabha today.