initiated to identify the villages covered by dairy
cooperatives in the country. The juxtaposition of
outputs from both these exercises would help identify
the potential villages that are still not covered by dairy
cooperatives. This would provide robust inputs to
formulate strategy for increasing cooperative coverage
for providing market access to milk producers in
uncovered potential areas.
External Monitoring & Evaluation for NDP I
The mid-term Round of External Monitoring and
Evaluation for NDP I was completed and the Project
Development Objectives (PDO) level indicators which
are crucial to monitor the progress of the project have
been finalised.
The third Annual Round was initiated by the external
agency. The fieldwork for the 3rd annual round for
monitoring the PDO level indicators of NDP I with a
specific theme on “Prevalence of credit among milk
producers in NDP I project area” has been completed.
Internet-based Dairy Information System
(i-DIS)
NDDB is implementing the “Internet-based Dairy
Information System” (i-DIS), a web-enabled system
since 2001 for dairy cooperatives with an objective to
Linking cooperative to markets
provide a platform to the dairy cooperatives for their
mutual benefits. The existing i-DIS has been modified to
make it compact and more user-friendly. Subsequently,
workshops were conducted covering 25 States, 190
Milk Unions and 15 Milk Federations to familiarise them
about the modified i-DIS system.
Geographical Information System for milk
unions
Geographical Information System (GIS) for Milk
Unions has been conceived, designed and developed
exclusively for use of the Cooperative Milk Unions of the
country. GIS for Milk Unions is a software which includes a
set of GIS tools with a strong visual impact. This is useful
for minimising the transportation cost of milk as well as
dairy business planning and monitoring of the activities.
During the year, workshops were held in eight states
and officers of 14 Cooperative Milk Unions / Producer
Companies were trained in utilising open-source GIS
application (QGIS).
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Developing Human Resources

For building a truly farmer-owned institution, capacity-building at all levels is
imperative. NDDB continued its effort of training milk producers, executives and
Board of Directors, for NDP I.

During the year, 12,689 persons were trained under different categories, at
NDDB, Anand and its training centres, with the objective of strengthening milk
business and governance.

NDDB introduced new training

modules like ‘Achievement
Motivation’ and ‘Marketing
Management at Milk Unions’.

A session on Animal Nutrition in progress

Responding to the expressed needs of the dairy
cooperative institutions, NDDB introduced new training
modules like ‘Achievement Motivation’ and ‘Marketing
Management at Milk Unions’. To expand the outreach
of good practices, NDDB organised training on “Video
Editing & Dissemination” for milk unions.
Progressive dairy entrepreneurs were provided
exposure to successful Micro Training Centres and were
trained in Training Methodology. It is expected that the
entrepreneurs will act as local resource persons for
demonstrating good animal husbandry practices for
other milk producers in the area. Such centres will act
as an extension platform for innovations in dairy animal
husbandry science.
This was also the year for expanding Digital learning
platform. NDDB, with the help of a software, conducted
several long distance interactive sessions in remote
locations.
Post training hand-holding is a crucial link in the capacity
building process. During the year, ten Regional and
State level workshops were held with the objective of
providing post training support as well as creating a
platform for cross-learning.

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