Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appealed to farmers and other stakeholders associated with the cooperative sector to make GCMMF, which owns the 'Amul' brand, the world's number one dairy company from its current eighth position. He was addressing nearly one lakh people, mostly cattle rearers and farmers, gathered at the Narendra Modi stadium in Motera area of Ahmedabad for the golden jubilee celebration of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF).
He defeated sitting Congress MLA Kanti Sodha Parmar in Anand, the home of world famous Amul dairy brand.
Come to Gujarat's Anand town, the cradle of India's White Revolution. In a first of its kind, the Amul Dairy recently began trials for milk cards on its newly-installed milk vending machine in Anand. Now you can keep one more plastic card in your wallet and buy milk at any ATMs installed by the Amul Dairy.
In a pioneering move, Amul has launched India's first milk ATM.
As the news of Kurien's demise spread across the state, Anand -- otherwise a sleepy town of Gujarat, woke up to thousands of farmers from far and near who poured in to pay their last tribute to the man who transformed this small town into the milk capital of India.
Operations of several top companies, located in central and south Gujarat, continued to be affected on Friday with torrential rains lashing several parts of Gujarat for close to a week.
It is largely due to his vision and efforts that we have almost quadrupled our per capita milk availability in the last 40 years, points out Shailesh Dobhal.
"There is a recent trend of people expecting that everything has to be done by the government," he said.
Different circuits have been designed, depending on the tourists' preference, connecting the Rann Utsav at Kutch with the ports at Mundra and Kandla.
From modest milk chocolate for kids 45 years ago to sophisticated dark chocolate for adults, Amul is a part of India's history.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow on Monday, he sought to emphasise that he had charted out a comprehensive development plan for the state.
Farmers' organisations are demanding a hike of Rs 5 per litre in milk procurement price and have decided to suspend the supply to Mumbai and Pune from Monday.
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Chouhan met some farmer leaders on Saturday, but failed to reach a compromise.
Akhilesh Yadav is now seeking to devote the remaining 18 months of his tenure in casting the state in a new mould.
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