New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) is implementing Central Sector Scheme- "National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD)" across the country since 2014-15 with the aim to enhance quality of milk and milk products and increase share of organized procurement, processing, value addition and marketing. The infrastructure created/strengthened under the scheme benefits all the milk producers associated with the State Cooperative Milk Federations/Unions/Producer Companies covered under the scheme according to the reports published in orissadiary.com.

Under NPDD scheme, about 31,908 dairy cooperative societies (DCS) have been organized/revived with 17.63 lakh additional milk producer enrolment and increase ...