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Friday, Jun 18, 2004
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Opinion
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Letters Dairy cooperatives
This refers to the news item "Kurien renews crusade against NDDB joint ventures" (Business Line, June15). While I fully agree with Dr Kurien that the Indian dairy cooperatives and the Indian dairy farmer need support and rejuvenation, I do not find anything wrong if someone who is now responsible for running the NDDB (National Dairy Development Board) should try and do something about what the farmer badly needs — marketing support. NDDB is doing what the previous regime, with Dr Kurien at its helm, did not try. Dr Kurien may well argue that marketing was never its forte, since the NDDB was created to establish a cooperative structure to augment milk production and procurement. That was the need of those times. The need for present is different; with milk overflowing, someone is needed to sell it , or rather market it. When Dr Kurien can create a national milk grid to erase regional milk production and consumption imbalances, cannot Ms Amrita Patel create a national milk marketing network, to help the farmer get a better return for his produce? What the present regime at the Centre should consider is not what was there before, but what lies ahead and who can do that. Haroon Rashid Former MP Delhi Letters to the editor and contributions can be sent by e-mail to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
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