Veteran co-operative leader Ramsinh Parmar on Monday was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the largest dairy co-operative federation, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), replacing incumbent Jethabhai Patel.

Panchmahal Dairy Chairman Jethabhai Bharwad was made Vice-Chairman of the federation, which markets milk and food products under the brand ‘Amul’ with an annual turnover of ₹27,043 crore for fiscal 2016-17.

The election for the 18-member GCMMF Board were held on Monday morning under the monitoring of Deputy collector, Anand, and in presence of senior BJP leader and Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama.

“The chairmen of all 18 member dairy unions unanimously elected Ramsinhbhai Parmar and Jethabhai Bharwad as chairman and vice-chairman respectively,” said Chudasama after the election result. The elections to the top two posts are held once in two and a half years.

GCMMF is India’s largest food products marketing organisation having a group annual sales turnover of over ₹38,000 crore. GCMMF has set a target to achieve milk handling and marketing capability for 400 lakh litres per day and turnover to ₹50,000 crore by 2020.

Currently, the member unions of GCMMF procure an average 210 lakh litres of milk everyday from over 3.6 million milk producers across 18,500 villages of Gujarat through 18 district co-operative milk producers unions.

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