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SPECIAL SGSY PROJECT ON

IMPROVING SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF

BPL FAMILIES OF KHEDA DISTRICT THOUGH

DAIRYING

AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PRACTICES

Submitted by: KAIRA DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVE MILKPRODUCERS UNION, ANAND. (GUJARAT) 388001


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF SGSY SPECIAL PROJECT

Organizational back ground

Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited, popularly known as

Amul dairy, Anand has been engaged in Animal husbandry and dairying

activities to improve upon the socioeconomic status and communitydevelopment of villages since 1946. As on date Amul is collecting on an

average 0.8 M liters of milk per day from 974 cooperative societies. In the

process of milk collection Amul makes a daily payment of Rs.70 lakhs to its

farmer milk producers. Due to its core competency, Amul, over the years has

built its brand image as a model co-operative in dairy sector.

Proposal

The project proposal aims at increasing monthly income of BPL familiesthrough the practices of Animal husbandry and dairying. Milch animals

comprising of crossbred cows and buffaloes shall be given to 7500 identified

BPL families. In order to make the project viable and to have long term

sustainability, various support services such as artificial insemination, fodder

development, creating infrastructure facilities for chilling milk at village level,

training and other linkages are built-in in the proposed project to generate

assured income for the beneficiaries/ target groups.

Objectives

1. To provide round the year assured income through dairying to identifiedBPL families.

2. To create avenues for self employment.3. Skill up gradation of women and youth through training.4. To improve the income level and overall socioeconomic status of individual

families and village.

Feasibility and technology absorption

Amul has adopted technological advancements from time to time, both at the

union level and at gross root level (at society and farmers doorstep).

Technologies like artificial insemination, chilling milk at source and clean milk

production are already in place and adopted by villages.


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Hence the adoption of various technological and control measures stated in the

proposed project are only an extension of proven activities which are already in

place and can be easily adopted by the target villages/ beneficiaries.

Key activities proposed in the project

1. Induction of 15,000 milch animals (10,000 crossbred cows and 5,000buffaloes).

2. Creation of infrastructure facilities for animal maintenance (cattle shed).3. Providing fodder seeds and green grasses to milch animals for sustainable

productivity.

4. Providing door step breeding facility through Artificial insemination.

5. Commissioning bulk chilling units at village level to prevent spoilage ofmilk.

6. Providing SS milk cans to retain quality of milk.7. Creation of mobile diagnostic Lab. for speedier and effective treatment of

animals.

8. Training to BPL beneficiaries to impart / upgrade their skills for long termsustainability of the project.

9. Creation of conducive infrastructure facilities for training of people involvedin dairying and Animal Husbandry.

Implementation: The project shall be implemented, monitored and controlled

through a project implementing cell of the organization with full time project

staff.


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Cost estimate of key elements of the project is as under

Sr. Name of activity Quantity Unit cost

Rs.

Total amount

in Rs.

Remarks

1 Milch animal purchase 15,000 16,000 percow and14,000 per

buffalo

23,00,00,000 10000 cows and 5000 buffaloes shall begiven to BPL families.

2 Cattle shed construction 7,500 4000 3,00,00,000 Shed as per Codex

guidelines

3 Fodder plot Development 5000 1000 50,00,000 Fodder crops once ina year in 1/2 acre land

each.

4 Supply of hand chaff cutter

with motors

10,000 250 25,00,000 For grass chaffing &

reduce wastage.

5 Installation of Bulk chillers(2000Lts)

15 6,00,000 90,00,000 For chilling milk atsource

6 Digging of bore wells &pump house

50 1,00,000 50,00,000 Supply of drinkingwater to live stock &

villages

7 Supply of stainless cans. 4000 2500 1,00,00,000 For milk transport &

retention of milk

quality

8 Creation of door step A.I.

facility

50 45,000 22,50,000

9 Mobile diagnostic Lab. 01 50,00,000 Faster treatment &

eradication ofpathogenic disease.

10

Monitoring of quality controlof milk.

samples1000 per

day

70,00,00060,00,000

1,30,00,000 Monitoring of milkquality for incentives

& quality control.

11

Strengthening & creation of

additional facilities in the

existing training center.

01 90, 00,000 Training center

modernization.

12

Women training programme 5000 400 20, 00,000 BPL women

beneficiaries & wives

of beneficiaries to betrained.

13Training to the targetbeneficiaries

7500 125 - 150 10,00,000 Skill upgradation &managing the asset.


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Revenue generation through the project

BPL members under the proposed project shall generate a total revenue of

Rs.8,10,00,000 in first year, Rs16,20,00,000 and Rs.32,40,00,000 in the third

year.

Particulars 1st year 2nd year 3rd yearEmployment

generated (man days)11,25,000 11,25,000 11,25,000

Total revenue

generated in Rs.8,10,00,000 16,20,00,000 32,40,00,000

The revenue generation has been calculated based on 3 liters of milk per animal

for 300 days of lactation @ Rs. 10 per litter.

Particulars Cost in Rs.

Total cost of the project 38,07,40,000Projected revenue to be generated in three years 56,70,00,000

Revenue generated per person per day Min. 62

Funding pattern of the project:

Fund requirement from Govt.: Rs 15,00,00,000

Details Actual cost in

Rs.

Grant receivable from Govt. against

Infrastructure development @ 20% of

project cost

7,61,48,000

Grant receivable from Govt. against

training, and extension activities @ 10%

of project

1,76,02,000

Subsidy receivable from DRDA @

Rs.7500 per BPL Family for 7500

beneficiaries.*

5,62,50,000

Proposed loan from banks ** 23,00,00,000

PIA's contribution for project cell *** 7,40,000

Fund mobilized through bank as loan & PIAs Contribution: Rs.23, 07, 40,000*Subsidy has been calculated at Max. Rs. 7500 per BPL family and the amount

may vary depending upon number of SC/ST BPL families covered under the

project.

** Loan shall be provided by banks (For details See annexure)

*** PIAs contribution towards salary & establishment cost.


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SPECIAL SGSY PROJECT ON

IMPROVING SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF BPL FAMILIES

OF KHEDA DISTRICT THOUGH DAIRYING AND ANIMAL

HUSBANDRY PRACTICES.

Conceptual background of the project

Amul Dairy, established in 1946 with a modest beginning of milk collection

(250 liters per day) continued its march towards growth and expansion. Today

the dairy collects about 0.8 million litters of milk per day from its 550,000

farmer members with an annual turnover of 468 crore (2001-2002). Products

manufactured include different types of baby food, dairy whitener, milk

powder, butter, clarified fat, liquid milk products, cheese, chocolates, Bread

spread, malted milk food and cattle feed.

Through its 5 decades of journey, the organization has ensured continued

customer service and care by offering quality products meeting customer's

satisfaction right from employees to the consumer of products and established

itself as market leader and a brand to reckon with.

The main objective of the organization is to provide good remunerative price

for milk round the year to its farmer producer members to improve their

socioeconomic status.

Amul Dairy ensured formation of Primary Cooperative Societies in each village

to collect milk from member producers and supply to the Union. Today there

are 974 such societies, which collect milk from about 550,000 member

producers.

Amul Dairy provides round the clock veterinary services to its milk producers.

In order to maintain animals in good health and nutrition, the Union

manufactures and supplies about 600 metric tons of high quality by-pass cattle

feed daily.

When Amul started Cooperative movement, majority of villages in the then

Kheda District had no source of continuous income other than the income

generated from agricultural produce.

Today after 50 years of continuous intervention and development of sustainable

diary practices, Amul could establish milk collection societies in 974 villages

and the overall growth achieved today is summarized as under.


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Number of families / people living below poverty line 1,65,855

Number of villages has schools 100% villages

Literacy rate 86% in Male

57% in Female

(An increase by 43 %)

Number of villages having community halls 73%Per capita income Urban Rs. 5600 pm

Rural Rs.3200 pm

No. of villages has access to public transport 92%

No. of families entirely dependent on milk animals 69%

The Cooperative movement has brought out immense socioeconomic changes

in all villages by improving overall living standards. With a milk collection of

0.80 million litters per day, every day about Rs. 70 Lakhs is being disbursed

back to these 974 villages. Such is the cash flow that every family/milkproducers get money daily for the milk supplied by them. Most of the village

cooperative societies have constructed their own building for milk collection

activities, laid approach roads and constructed schools/ community halls

through the income generated from milk.

As the system grew, Amul started paying competitive returns to farmers by

introducing various programs such as inducting high breed milch animals,

artificial insemination techniques, various milk enhancement input and health

care services, efficient transportation system to bring down the rate of milk

spoilage, introduction of chilling at source concept (installation of bulk cooling

units at village level), improvement in animal treatment system, various

intervention programs to produce clean milk from time to time.

Inspite of such massive and continuous developmental efforts, as per current

estimates there are about 55.64 % (1,65,855 BPL families as on 1st

September

2001) families live below poverty line. Of 1,65,855 BPL families 31,935 BPL

families are marginal land holders, given a chance to maintain 2 milch

animals their status could be improved and brought to above poverty line.

Further introduction of bulk cooling units, timely veterinary services, providing

high yielding animals, farming supplements, training and intervention

programs, the socioeconomic status of the village as a whole and individual

family in particular could be improved.


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Since Amul has experience, expertise and technical know-how, it is possible to

bring socioeconomic changes and overall living standards of the target

beneficiaries through this proposed project. The proposed project aims at

providing income generating asset of 2 milch animals to the BPL beneficiaries

thereby creating avenues for assured income and employment. This project is

being considered as a special project because it has included all the forward and

back ward linkages in the scheme. Besides giving productive asset for incomegeneration the project also envisages creating long term activities for its

sustainability. The project activities like fodder development for regular feeding

of animals, breeding facility for the multiplication of stock, quality retention of

milk through chilling milk at source, provision of veterinary services,

marketing of entire milk through milk society and training for the proposed

beneficiaries.

Project objectives

The objectives of the project are envisaged as under.

1. To provide an opportunity for round the year assured income to 7500 BPLfamilies through animal husbandry activities.

2. Creating self employment, employment opportunities to BPL youth andwomen

3. Train BPL beneficiaries and identified members for upgradation of theirskill to manage the given asset for getting optimum return.

4. To bring the BPL families and target groups above poverty line throughspecific interventions.

5. To sustain the productive assets given to the BPL beneficiaries by creatingand strengthening the existing infrastructure facilities


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Techno -economical of dairying unit

A.General consideration1 Average landing cost of one animal Rs. 16, 000 for cow

Rs. 14,000 for buffalo

2 Milk yield calculated based on projected

lactation

10 12 Lit/day

3 Inter calving period 16 months

4 Average cost of milk per litter paid to member

producer

Rs. 11

5 Cost of feed (concentrated) Rs. 5/ kg

6 Cost generated from manure (16 months) Rs. 1200

7 Cost of dry fodder Rs. 2/kg

8 Green fodder shall be cultivated by the owner --

9 Insurance premium paid for 3 years for 2

animals

Rs. 1400

10 Vaccination and veterinary care/animal/year Rs. 200

B. Recurring expenditure calculated for 16 months inter calving period

(lactation)

1 Cost of concentrated feed for general

maintenance of animal @ 1kg per animal per

day for 305 days

Rs. 1525

2 Cost of concentrated feed for milk production@ 350g per litter of milk for 305 days Rs. 5337

3 Cost of dry fodder consumption per day per

animal for 305 days @ Rs. 2.00

Rs. 3050

C.Recurring expenditure calculated for dry period (180 days)1 Cost of concentrated feed for general

maintenance of animal @ 1kg per animal per day

for 180 days

Rs. 900

2 Cost of dry fodder consumption per day peranimal for 180 days @ Rs. 2.00

Rs. 2160

3 Insurance premium paid for 3 years for 1 animals Rs. 700

5 Miscellaneous expenses (milk pail, utensils etc) Rs. 500

6 Total cost of milk production Rs. 14172


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D. Calculated profit and loss account for a period of 16 months

Gross income

1 Sale of milk @ Rs. 11/ L Rs. 36905

2 Value of manure generated per year Rs. 1200

3 Gross income in 16 months Rs. 38105

4 Calculated Net income (D-C) Rs. 239335 Calculated monthly income from one animal Rs. 1994

Based on above calculations, it is feasible to generate Rs. 3800/ from two milch

animals per month

Strategy for implementation of the proposed project

The strategy of implementing the project has been divided under three

categories at three different stages of operation under cooperative setup.

Category I: Bringing individual families who are holders of marginal land,

living below poverty line under the program. Such identified families will be

provided with financial support to buy milch animal, create facilities for animal

rearing, provide veterinary services and provide basic facilities such as drinking

water to the beneficiary and animals. This will improve the socioeconomic

conditions of individual family living under BPL.

Category- II: Villages having Cooperative societies collecting milk in cans

will be brought under the program to provide them bulk chilling units, better

transportation facilities, create additional infrastructure to improve the

performance. This will improve the economic conditions of the society and

such benefit when passed on to its affiliated members, overall improvement in

the village takes place.

Category III: Amul has basic/ well developed infrastructure in animal

husbandry, dairying, milk procurement, processing technology and marketing.

Amul will help in providing technological inputs, extend veterinary services,

train people thus to improve milk yield and economic returns to BPL family.


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Project period and action plan (year-wise for implementation of the

project.

It is proposed to complete all activities stated under the project within three

years from the date of sanction. The key areas identified in the project are as

under:

1. Induction of Animals (to be provided to BPL families which include SC/STfamilies/ beneficiaries) to improve the economic conditions.

2. Vaccination, health care and deworming services shall be provided assupport services to the animals to maintain and enhance productivity of milk

3. Provision for raising green fodder, high yield seed varieties for fodderdevelopment both at individual level and on community level.

4. Creation of drinking water facilities by digging bore wells to supplydrinking water to the live stock, BPL families and target villagers.

5. Provide bulk chilling facilities by commissioning bulk chillers so that milkcould be stored for longer period before sent for processing

6. Establishment of mobile veterinary lab for support treatment and providingdoorstep Artificial Insemination.

7. Creation of additional infrastructure provide SS cans to collect milk andefficient milk transportation system.


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Project area profile (KHEDA)

Geographical area 3919.73 sq.Km

Human population 20,23,354 ( 2001 census)

Major occupation Agriculture, Dairying,

Literacy rate Male 86% Female 57%

No. of talukas 10

No. of Rural families 298090

No. of BPL families 165855

% of BPL families 55.64%

No. of SC families 14119

No. of Agriculture laborers 124613

Major crops Bajra, Paddy, Tobacco, Banana,

Vegetable

Other facilities: All villages are well connected with roads, have 100%electrification, available of good amount of crop residues, dry and green fodder.

Majority of the villages have canal irrigation facilities with rural marketing set

up through marketing yard by Co-operatives. All villages have Milk co-

operatives for milk procurement and marketing.

Project period and year wise action/ implementation for each identified

activity are as under.

Category 1: Induction of Animals

Details 1st

year 2nd

year 3rd

year No. of cow inducted 5000 5000 Follow up period

No. of buffaloes inducted 2500 2500 Follow up period

Total No. of animals inducted 7500 7500 Follow up period

Estimated cost component

Year No. of

cows

Cost of

animal

Rs.

Total cost RS No. of

Buffaloes

Cost

/animal

Rs.

Total cost RS

1st

year 5000 16,000 8,00,00,000 2500 14,000 3,50,00,000

2nd

year 5000 16,000 8,00,00,000 2500 14,000 3,50,00,000

Total Expenditure Rs: 23,00,00,000


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It is proposed to induct all 15,000 animals with a period of 2 years so that

continued milk production and income is maintained making the project viable.

Number of beneficiaries

Sr. No Details Estimated numbers

1 No. of beneficiaries in first year 75002 No. of beneficiaries in second year * 7500

3 No. of beneficiaries in third year** 3000 new beneficiaries forsupport services.

* The assistance shall be given to the same beneficiary.

** Support services shall be given to new beneficiaries.

Plan of Action

1. 7500 beneficiaries from the BPL list given by DRDA shall be selected fromthe KAIRA district. The beneficiaries comprise with BPL SC/ST families.

2. BPL families / beneficiaries will be made members of the society aftergiving the animals even if they are not existing members of the society.

3. 7500 milch animals, a mixture of cow and buffaloes will be provided totarget BPL beneficiary in the first year. Remaining 7500 animals will be

provided after six months of first animal given to the same families. Hence a

total of 15,000 animals shall be given.

4. Required infrastructure facilities shall be created in the first year ofimplementing the project in order to take care of animal rearing

requirements.

5. The beneficiary shall construct animal shed, cultivate fodder in his own landwherever land is available. Further depending upon the availability of

community land, the village will be encouraged to cultivate green fodder to

meet the feeding requirement of animal.


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Economic feasibility (Returns)

Projected year wise income generation for three years has been calculated based

on the experience of such activities as under.

Details 1 year 2 year 3 year

Income frommilch animal

Rs.22560 fromone animal

Rs.33560 fromtwo animal

Rs.43120 from twoanimals

Loan details: Cow unit

Per BPL family Total loan RsLoan details

1st

Year 2nd Year 3rd

year

Loan amount Rs.24,500 Nil Nil 24,500

Subsidy amount

Rs.

Rs.7500* Nil Nil Nil

Recovery

amount Rs.

Rs8983 Rs.8983 Rs.8983 Rs.26950/- with

10% interest

Income

generated

22560 33,560 43,120 99,240

Total loan component after subsidy will be recovered with in three years with

a net income of Rs: 72290/-Thus the increase in per capita income would be

projected as Rs.2008/- per month after loan payment.

* The subsidy amount may increase to a maximum limit of Rs. 10,000 in caseof SC BPL beneficiaries

Loan details: Buffalo unit

Per BPL familyLoan details

1st

Year 2nd

Year 3rd

year

Total loan Rs

Loan amount Rs.20500 nil nil Rs.20,500

Subsidy amount

Rs.

Rs.7500 nil nil nil

Recovery amount

Rs.

Rs.7516 Rs.7516 Rs.7516 Rs. 22550 with

10% interest

Income generated Rs.22560 Rs.33560 Rs.43120 Rs.99240

Total loan component after subsidy will be recovered with in three years

with a net income of Rs: 76690/-Thus the increase in per capita income would

be projected as Rs.2130 per month after loan payment.


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Category II

Under this category, infrastructure facilities like installation of bulk chilling

units, animal sheds, farming supplements, communication and transportation

facilities are proposed as support activities for making the project viable

A. Infrastructure facilities associated with maintenance of milch animals in

BPL dominated villages

Sr

No.

Infrastructure be

created

Tangible/ Intangible benefits

1 Cattle shed for 3

milch animals

Better housing of cattle protecting from harsh

environment, enhances milk production, prevents

cross contamination of milk and suitable to

maintain hygienic conditions of animals for

clean milk production. (Annex 1)2 Developing

individual fodder

plots of 0.5 acre

size.

To provide round the year fodder and grass for

milch animals to have sustainable milk

production/ yield. (Annex 2)

3 Supply of hand

chaff cutter to the

target beneficiary.

Usually the fodder is placed in its original shape/

size in front of animal. About 20% fodder not

consumed by the animal is collected along with

manure. Cutting of fodder to small size and

feeding to animal reduces direct of wastage of

20% fodder on feeding. This also increases thedigestibility of fodder by animal. (Annex 3)

Plan of Action

Details 1st

year 2nd

year 3rd

year Total Nos.

Cattle shed for 3 milch

animals

3750 3750 Nil 7500

Developing individual fodder

plots of 0.5 acre size

2500 2500 Nil 5000

Supply of hand chaff cutter tothe target beneficiary.

5000 5000 Nil 10,000


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Details 1st

year

Rs.

2nd

year

Rs.

3rd

year

Rs.

Total

amount Rs.

Cattle shed for 3 milch

animals

1,50,00,000 1,50,00,000 Nil 3,00,00,000

Develop individualfodder plots of 0.5 acre

size

25,00,000 25,00,000 Nil 50,00,000

Supply of hand chaff

cutter to the

beneficiary

12,50,000 12,50,000 Nil 25,00,000

Total expenditure 1,87,5 0,000 1,87,5 0,000 ---- 3,75,00,000

Unit cost is calculated as under

Details Unit cost Rs.

Cattle shed for 3 milch animals 4000

Fodder plots of 0.5 acre size 1000

Hand chaff cutter 250


Sr. No Details Estimated numbers

1 No. of beneficiaries in first year 3750

2 No. of beneficiaries in second year 3750

3 No. of beneficiaries in third year 3000 for support services.


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B. Infrastructure facilities associated with community development in BPL

dominated villages

Sr

No.

Infrastructure be

created


1 Installation of Bulk

chilling units in thetarget villages

This will help in chilling the milk at source within

1-2 hours of milking period. Such facility will prevent milk spoilage, quality deterioration and

control microbial development. Currently the

Union pays premium to milk based on microbial

load. This will help societies generating additional

income which will be economically beneficial to

the society and milk producers. Also this will help

in increasing the shelf life of milk(Annex 4)

2 Make available

drinking waterfacilities through

creation of Bore-

well and pump

house in the project

villages.

In most of the villages, water availability is a

perennial problem. This leads to less availability ofwater for drinking, house hold cleaning and animal

maintenance.

Providing water facilities through bore well will

help the entire village to have continuous source

for drinking water, cleaning and also able to

maintain milch animals.

This will help in generation of income and overall

economic development of the village (Annex 5)3 Provide Stainless

steel (SS) cans to

societies

Stainless steel cans are easily cleanable, rugged and

withstand rough handling. Since Aluminum cans

currently under use are not capable of withstanding

rough handling leading to denting. Cleaning of

cans having such dents is difficult and is a source

of contamination. (Annex 6)


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Plan of Action

Details 1st

year 2nd

year 3rd

year

Total

Nos.

Installation of Bulk chilling units in

the target villages (15 units of 2000

Lt capacity)

10 5 nil 15

Make available drinking water

facilities through creation of Bore-

well and pump house in the project

villages.

30 20 nil 50

Provide Stainless steel cans to

societies

2000 2000 nil 4000


Details 1st

year

Rs.

2nd

year

Rs.

3rd

year

Rs.

Total

amount Rs.

Installation of Bulk chilling

units in the target villages

60,00,000 30,00,000 nil 90,00,000

Make available drinking

water facilities through

creation of Bore-well and

pump house in the project

villages.

30,00,000 20,00,000 nil 50,00,000

Provide Stainless steel cans

to societies

50,00,000 50,00,000 nil 1,00,00,000

Total Expenditure Rs 1,40,00,000 1,00,00,000 nil 2,40,00,000



Installation of Bulk chilling units 6,00,000

Make available drinking water facilities through creationof Bore-well and pump house in the project villages.

1,00,000

Provide Stainless steel cans to societies 2500


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Details 1st

year 2nd

year 3rd

year Total

Installation of Bulk chilling units whole village 10

Drinking water facilities through

creation of Bore-well and pump

house

30 village 20

villages

nil 50 villages

Provide Stainless steel cans to

societies (100 Societies)

100

villages

nil nil 4000 cans

Category III

Under this category, various facilities related faster veterinary services,

vaccination, deworming, creation of holding farm for production of better stockshall be created for optimum return.


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I. Infrastructure facilities associated with veterinary services, productivity

enhancement and monitoring quality of milk

Sr

No

Infrastructure be

created


2 Creation of door step

Artificial inseminationfacility. Providing

small cryo liquid

nitrogen container of

3L capacity to

villages.

This will help in providing door step breeding

facility for the milk animals of the BPL families.

Such facility reduces cost of AI service, improve

the pregnancy rate and milk production thereby

generating additional income (Annex7)

3 Establishment of

mobile diagnostic lab

for animal health care

(This will be sufficient

to treat 20- 30000

emergency cases in a

year.

This facility will aid to quick diagnosis of diseases

so that timely and appropriate treatment to sick

animals could be provided. The mobile lab will

also continuously move in villages irrespective of

specific demand for routine checks, analysis of

drug residues, and eradication of pathogenic

diseases (Annex 8)

4 Monitoring quality of

milk for microbial

load at milk

procurement point for

incentives Use of

Bactoscan to analyze

1000 samples per dayfor total microbial

count and Somatic cell

counter to detect sub

clinical mastitis

The Union started monitoring bacterial load of

milk in about 200 villages to pay incentives on

milk meeting the levels fixed. Initially about 30%

societies were meeting the microbial requirements.

However, after one year of monitoring, currently

about 65% societies meet the standard on

microbial requirements.

It is proposed to bring all village cooperatives

under this microbial monitoring and incentive

program.

This will help in societies getting extra income,

improve the quality of milk and good quality of

final products.

(Annex 9)


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Plan of Action

Details 1st

year

2nd

year

3rd

year

Total

Nos.

Creation of door step Artificial

insemination facility. Providing small

cryo liquid nitrogen container of 3Lcapacity to villages.

25 25 nil 50

Establishment of mobile diagnostic lab

for animal health care.

01 -- -- 01

Monitoring quality of milk for

microbial load and sub clinical mastitis

at milk procurement point for

incentives

02 -- - 02


Details 1st

year

Rs.

2nd

year

Rs.

3rd

year

Rs.

Total

amount Rs.

Providing small cryo liquid

nitrogen container of

3Lts.capacity & accessories

11,25,000 11,25,000 nil 22,50,000

Establishment of mobile

diagnostic lab

50,00,000 nil nil 50,00,000

Monitoring quality of milk

for microbial load and sub

clinical mastitis

1,30,00,000 -- -- 1,30,00,000

Total expenditure Rs. 1,91,25,000 11,25,000 nil 2,02,50,000



Providing small cryo liquid nitrogen container of

3Lts.capacity & accessories.

45,000

Establishment of mobile diagnostic lab 50,00,000Monitoring quality of milk for microbial load and sub

clinical mastitis

70,00,000

(Bactoscan)

60,00,000 (Somatic

cell counter)


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Details 1st

year

2nd

Year

3rd

year

Total

Creation of door step Artificial

insemination facility. Providing smallcryo liquid nitrogen container of

3Lts.capacity to villages.

20,000 10,000 10,000 40,000*

Establishment of mobile diagnostic lab

for animal health care.

20000 20,000 20,000 60,000**

Monitoring quality of milk for

microbial load and Sub clinical

mastitis at milk procurement point for

incentives

All

societie

s

-- -- All

societies

Projected Inseminations. Samples tested of various types.

II. Training associated with infrastructure facilities

Following are the broad areas identified under training and extension activities

1. General training to the target beneficiary for skill upgradation.2. Technical training to target beneficiaries for optimum utilization of

productive asset.

3. Strengthening of in-house training center for providing Artificialinsemination and Cattle management training.

4. Impart training to women member for improving quality of milk at the timeof milking to dispatch to milk society for sale, cattle care and hygiene.

5. Field visit of all target beneficiary to the successful milk society of Gujaratto acquaint them better animal care and management.


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Sr

No.

Infrastructure be

created


1 Strengthening of

Artificial Insemination

cum general Training

center (up-gradation

of facilities)

This center will provide specialized training for

the target beneficiaries on skill up-gradation on

Animal husbandry, A.I activities to village BPL

youth for self employment.

This center shall also act as farmer's resourcecenter for the entire area (Annex 10)

2 Training to the women

members of target

beneficiaries on clean

milk production

The training will impart knowledge on animal

management, clean milk production, home

management.

Skill development, self sustainability and

continuous improvement are the key areas of

overall development of community (Annex 11)

Plan of Action

Details 1st

year

2nd

year 3rd

year

Total

Nos.

Strengthening of Artificial

Insemination cum general Training

center. (upgradation of facilities)

01 Nil Nil 01

Training to the women members of

target beneficiaries on clean milk

production

2500 2500 Nil 5000

Training for the target beneficiaries 7500 7500 Nil 15,000


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Details 1st

year Rs. 2nd

year

Rs.

3rd

year

Rs.

Total

amount Rs.

Strengthening of Artificial

Insemination cum general

Training center (upgradation of facilities)

90,00,000 Nil Nil 90,00,000

Training to the women

members of target

beneficiaries on clean

milk production

10,00,000 10,00,000 Nil 20,00,000

Training for target

beneficiaries.

5,00,000 5,00,000 Nil 10.00,000

Total expenditures 1,00,00,000 15,00,000 Nil 1,20,00,000


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Total Expenditure involved

Category 1st

year in Rs 2nd

year in Rs 3rd

year Total Rs.

Category 1Induction of Animals

11,50,00,000 11,50,00,000 Nil 23,00,00,000

Category II

A. Infrastructure

facilities associatedwith maintenance of

milch animals in BPL

dominated villages

1,87,50,000 1,87,50,000 Nil 3,75,00,000

Category-II

B. Infrastructure

facilities associated

with community

development in BPL

dominated villages

1,40,00,000 1,00,00,000 Nil 2,40,00,000

Category III

I. Infrastructure


with veterinary

services, productivity

enhancement and

monitoring quality of

milk

1,91,25,000 11,25,000 Nil 2,02,50,000

Category III

II. Infrastructure


with Training

1,05,00,000 15,00,000 Nil 1,20,00,000

Total Expenditure Rs 17,73,75,000 14,63,75,000 Nil 32,37,50,000

Total project cost Rs. 32,37,5 0,000 **

** Bank loan component of Rs 23,00,00,000 is included.


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Beneficiaries detail

7500 BPL beneficiaries of KHEDA minimum 500 from each taluka which

includes SC/ST members.

Implementing Agency

M/s. Kaira District Cooperative milk producers Union Limited, AMUL

DAIRY, ANAND 388 001, Gujarat

Role of AMUL Dairy

1. AMUL will select the potential BPL beneficiaries (includes SC/STfamilies) from the villages.

2.

AMUL shall act as facilitator for this project starting from implementation,monitoring its progress and take appropriate mid course control/ review

measures.

3. AMUL shall act as guarantor for the bank loan.4. AMUL shall also provide required technical know how for this project.This project shall be implemented through a special project cell consist of one

project Coordinator, 5 field organizers and 1 office assistant cum Data entry

officer.Details 1

styear 2

ndyear 3

rdyear Total cost Rs

Project Coordinator * 1,20,000 1,20,000 1,20,000 3,60,000

Filed Organizers** 1,50,000 1,50,000 1,50,000 4,50,000

Office Assistant cum

data entry operator***

30,000 30,000 30,000 90,000

Total consultancy

charges

3,00,000 3,00,000 3,00,000 9,00,000

* Consultancy charges @ Rs. 10,000 for one project coordinator

** Consultancy charges @ Rs. 2,500 per month for one field organizer for three

years. 5 filed organizer are proposed to be included to monitor the project

*** Consultancy for one office assistant cum data entry officer @ Rs. 2500 per

month for thee years


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Bench mark survey indicators:

The bench mark indicators such as present monthly family income, feeding

pattern, social needs, saving pattern are to be studied before and after project

implementation. Both indicators shall be compared.

Raw material supply

Milch animals, cattle feed, fodder seeds, farm implements will be made

available in the identified target villages.

Marketing arrangement of the produce

Although there exist round the year marketing facility in all proposed target

area through AMUL village dairy Co-operatives, it is felt that to enhance milk

marketing from the remote project villages to urban areas, installation of Bulk

chilling units at village level and transportation of milk could be done byproviding stainless steel milk cans in. This will not only retain the milk quality

and also minimize the sourage of milk.

Animal Purchase Committee

A purchase committee be formed consisting of representatives from Amul,

DRDA and AH Department. As a matter of policy, all animals will be

purchased from outside of district.

Projected Milk Production

Through making available of 15000 milch animals, the projected daily milk put

and input to the Union will be 0.5 LLPD This will increase the total turnover of

the Union with generation of additional benefits to the societies and member

producers.

Benefits/ Impact of the project

The projected benefits of the projects are listed below:

1. Regular and assured monthly income of Rs.3800 per BPL beneficiary.2. Self employment generation (7500 families) and BPL youth though the

project.

3. Skill up-gradation of the target BPL families.


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4. Creation of small self employed entrepreneur like community milking man,village consultants animal inseminators.

5. Cash flow from urban area to rural area by selling of milk regularly by thetarget families.

6. Improvement in living standards of families and their children due toincrease in per capita income.

7. Increase in literacy levels.8. The rural migration could be minimized by the attempt.9. Creation of self sustainable rural based system will be created after project is

implemented.

10.The infrastructure facilities created under this project implementation willserve as a model for the others to follow.

11.Social and economical improvement of women beneficiary.Risk factors affecting the project

The following risk factors are foreseen at present which are normally seen with

other such Animal husbandry projects.

1. Animal Disease/ out break leading to loss of production: To tide overthis risk adequate vaccination for the animal and elaborate health care

systems are available with AMUL shall be made available as preventive /

corrective measures.

2. Death of productive Animal: Insurance cover shall be given to all assetsincluding the animals so that the risk is adequately covered.

3. Animal husbandry is agriculture based enterprise and dependent on monsoonand good crop production. In absence of good monsoon the project may

suffer. To minimise this risk AMUL has 600 Mt per day concentrated cattle

feed manufacturing plant. The cattle feed is being sold at affordable price to

member producers through Co-operative societies.

4. Rate of Inflation: Cost component has been calculated for each itemidentified in the project on the basis of prevailing cost at the time ofconceiving the project. Any rise of inflation may hamper the project.

However, additional features have been built in the project and in case of

such unforeseen eventuality; the time on creation of infrastructure facilities

can be minimized.


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Criteria for monitoring and evaluation of project:

The progress of the project shall be monitored by AMUL on monthly basis

based on following criteria.

1. Income generation from productive asset.2. Adequate functioning of support services to achieve the objectives.3. Monthly meeting with DRDA for necessary project related returns to be

submitted.

4. Mid course evaluation of the project in six months interval for any remedial/corrective measures to be taken.

5.

Yearly evaluation of the project shall be done by taking into consideration inrise in per capita income, man-days created and tangible benefits gained.

6. The project will be evaluated by competent independent authority.Banks commitment for credit.

This proposal was discussed in DLCC meeting held on 28th

March 2003 chaired

by the District Collector of Naidad. During the preliminary discussions, lead

bank Manager, Bank of Baroda and representatives of other scheduled banks

have in principally agreed to extend the credit component after Amul'sassurance to stand as guarantor to bank. The worked out total bank loan after

deducting subsidy is Rs. 23, 00, 00,000 for 7500 BPL beneficiaries.

Technical scrutiny and technical feasibility of the project: This shall be done

by the concerned involved parties in the project from time to time as on mutual

agreement and shall be obtained by DRDA.

Economic appraisal of the project: viability of the project is enclosed.

Appraisal by Amul Amul is engaged in dairying and animal husbandry

business since last five decades or so. Form collecting just 200 liters of milk

from day one of its inception, it has progressed to collect 0.8 million litter of

milk daily as on date from 974 villages cooperative societies having a collective

membership of over 550,000 milk producers.


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This has been achieved through services like prodding animals to framers,

establishment of milk collection centers (societies), animal husbandry services,

artificial insemination and cattle feed. The union also extended facilities like

training, introduced the concept of chilling milk at source in tune with

technological advancements that have taken place from time to time.

The project is a kind of extending the expertise available in similar manner.Therefore, it is assured based on the past experience and present technological

facilities that the project is 100% viable and generate assured income as

projected.

Formation of a 3 member follow up Committee: for evaluation of the project

will be done consisting members from DRDA, AH department of Gujarat

government and Amul.

Repayment schedule

The Loan amount will be recovered from members by the society and will be

repaid in 36, monthly installment with 10% interest/ as applicable from time

after deducting the subsidy. The deduction shall be made by the milk society

and to be deposited to the area wise bank falling in the DCS area. The PIA will

monitor the repayment and will held monthly meeting with DCS and

beneficiary for speeder repayment.

The interest on the principal loan amount received shall be adjusted against the

last fund installment. Further a separate bank account shall be opened for thisproject. The expenditure of the project shall be audited by a charted accountant

as per Govt. rules.

Whether the project or part thereof has been submitted to any other

agency?

This project either in part or as a whole has not been submitted to any agency

for funding. Certificate to this effect has been enclosed along with the project

proposal.


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Funding pattern of the project

A .FUND RECEIVABLE FROM GOVT.Rs.15,00,00,000

Details Actual cost

1.Infrastructure development @ 20%

of total cost.2.Training expenditure @ 10 % of total

cost.

3.Subsidy receivable from DRDA @ of

Rs.7500 per beneficiary for 7500 BPL

families.

Rs.7,61,48,000

Rs.1,76,02,000

Rs.5,62,50,000

B. FUNDS MOBILISED FROM BANKAS LOAN

Details Actual cost

Procurement of animal 15,000 numbers. Rs.23,00,00,000

C. Amul's contribution: Rs.7, 40,000

An amount of Rs. 7, 40,000 towards consultancy fees paid to the project staff

for project period will be contributed by Amul.

All technical services will be provided by AMUL at no extra cost

De-worming and animal treatment cost worked out for 15,000 fresh animals

inducted in the project for a period of three years is Rs. 34,00,000/-This costs

does not cover emergency visits. All such cost incurred during the project

period will be borne by Amul.


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List of projects (state and center) handled by Amul

The list of projects is attached separately in the annexure.

Attachment and enclosures to be attached

1. Location map of Kheda.2. Techno economics report of dairy unit.3. Taluka wise BPL list received from DRDA Nadiad.4. List of projects executed by AMUL.5. Letter pertaining to this project is not submitted to any agency for funding.6. Copy of resolution relating to arrangement of loan from banks.


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DEATAILS OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE CREATED UNDER THE

PROPOSED PROJECT

Annex 1 - Cattle shed construction

As per Codex code on Hygienic practice for milk and milk products, primary

production practices of milk should ensure that potential microbiologicalhazards from all sources should be minimized to the greatest extent practicable

at this stage of production. It is recognized at international level that the greatest

sources of microbiological hazards are the environment (farm level) and the

milk animals themselves. In order to prevent such potential microbial

contaminants, appropriate animal husbandry practices should be respected and

care should be taken to assure that proper health of the milking animal is

maintained. Further lack of good agricultural, animal feeding, veterinary

practices and inadequate general hygiene of milking personal and aids,

inappropriate milking methods may lead to unacceptable levels ofcontamination with chemical residues and other potential contaminants during

primary production of milk

In order to achieve this, the hygienic code proposed by Codex is as under

1. Areas and premises for milk production - Areas including premises usedfor the production of milk should be designed, situated, maintained in a

manner that minimizes the introduction of hazards into milk. The milking

premises should be constructed in such a manner that it is easy to clean,

proper drain system, with appropriate water facility and be separated andprotected from open environment.

2. Feeding of Animals with consideration given to the end use of milk,forage, and feed for lactating animals should not introduce, directly, or

indirectly, microbiological or chemical contaminants in to milk in amounts

that present an unacceptable health risk to the consumer.

3. Animal holding area - Holding area should be designed in such a way thatis maintained free from accumulation of water, manure, mud, feed residues,prevent entry of other non milking animals.

4. Animal health Milk should come from animals on good health so thatconsidering the end use, it does not affect the safety and suitability of the

end products.


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5. Environmental hygiene Water and other environmental factor should bemanaged in a way that minimizes the potential for the transmission of

hazards in to the milk.

6. Animal treatment Animals should only be treated with veterinary drugspermitted for the specific use and in a manner that will not adversely impact

on the safety and suitability of milk, including adherence to the withdrawalperiod specified.

7. Hygienic milking Milking should be carried out in such a manner thatminimizes contamination of the milk being introduced.

Since the proposed Codex Code on hygienic practice for milk and milk

products will be implemented across the world in coming years, India as

signatory of WTO has no option but to follow the code. Since Amul is a

member of Codex committee, and a premier Cooperative, would like to initiateimplementing the code before it becomes mandatory. Hence appropriate design

has been made to construct proper Cattle shed incorporating requirements of

hygiene code.

The proposed project envisages implementing and complying with such

hygienic requirements atleast in selected villages in order to replicate the same

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Annex 2: Developing of individual fodder plots 1/2 acre each

To have sustainable milk production, it is essential to feed the animals with

green fodder till end of the lactation. Since availability of green fodder is only

for few months in a year, the animals have been to largely depend on dry

fodder. Also feeding green fodder directly relates to enhancement of milk

production/ secretion, it is essential to feed the milch animals with green fodderso that the milk yield is not reduced.

It has been envisaged that green fodder cultivation will be done in individual

plots of 0.5 acre area by farmers or where community land is available in

village. The farmers having irrigated land will be encouraged for fodder

development twice in a year. The seeds and fertilizers shall be made available

to them.

Annex 3: Supply of hand chaff cutter to the target beneficiary.

Usually the fodder is placed in its original shape/ size in front of animal. It has

been practically observed that when such fodder is fed to animal, about 20-25%

fodder is not consumed by the animal and is considered as left over. Since the

fodder is placed on floor the left over feed gets contaminated with manure and

is collected along with the manure.

Cutting of fodder to small size and feeding to animal reduces direct wastage of20-25% fodder on feeding. Such wastage loss also leads to economic loss on

feed. When animals fed with such fodder, the dry matter digestibility increases

leading to enhanced milk production. Hence it has been proposed to supply

chaff cutter for two major reasons 1). to reduce the wastage and 2). to improve

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Annex 4: Installation of Bulk chilling units in the target villages

As per codex code on hygienic practice for milk and milk products, milk should

be collected, transported and delivered without undue delay, and in a manner

that avoids the introduction of contaminants into milk and minimizes the

growth of micro-organisms in the milk.

Proper handling, storage and transportation of milk are important elements of

the system of controls necessary to produce safe and suitable milk and milk

products. Temperature abuse is known to increase the microbiological load of

milk. From milk production through processing of milk should be stored at

appropriate temperatures in order to control the growth or minimize the

development of food safety hazard.

Amul has conducted a study in order to investigate the stages of spoilage ofmilk starting from udder to dairy dock. The milk from the udder has few

hundreds of viable microbial count. The count increases to several thousands

when the milk reaches to collection point that is co-operative society. The

bacteria gets multiplied and by the time un chilled milk collected in cans

reaches to dairy the total microbial count increases to several millions (more

than 10 million count per ml of milk). In order to study the effect of

temperature control/ chilling milk at source, the milk immediately after milking

was chilled to 6-8 degree Celsius temperature. The microbial count of such

chilled milk when received at dairy dock was found to 2-3 million per ml milk.

This indicates that chilling milk at source is another important factor. India

being the tropical country, the environmental conditions favor faster growth of

microorganism in milk and the quality of milk gets deteriorated by the time it

reaches dairy dock. The loss is due to sour / spoiled milk. The concept of

chilling milk at source is in place in all developed countries where the farm size

is about 100 herds. However, in India the milk collection is from millions of

small farmers and extending such facility at farmers doorstep is not practically

viable. Hence Amul in the nineties took initiative to conduct detailed

investigation on quality status of milk starting from milking point to collectioncenters, through transportation and at dairy dock. Based on the results, Amul

introduced the concept of chilling the milk at collection point i.e. at Society

level to less than 6 degree Celsius within 1-2 hours of milking. Today there are

144 societies having such facilities and one third of the total milk is received

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The bacterial count of milk from these units is found be less than 2.5 million

per ml when compared to several millions in milk received un-chilled in cans.

Amul is planning to install such bulk cooling units at all viable village

cooperative societies in a phased manner. The units are operated both on

electricity and diesel generators, easy to operate and least expensive in terms of

operating costs.

In order to encourage societies to commission bulk chilling units to improve the

quality of milk, currently the Union pays premium to milk based on microbial

load. This will help societies to generate additional income, which will be

economically beneficial to the society and milk producers. Also this will help in

increasing the shelf life of milk.

Installation of bulk chilling units at society level to retain the quality of milk

will help to achieve immediate economic benefit to the society and long term

benefit to the union in terms of production of good quality end products.Reduction in microbial load will also reduce processing costs (energy) which

lead to long-term economic benefits.

Therefore it has been proposed to add additional 15 bulk chilling units in the

identified target villages.

Annex 5: Make available drinking water facilities through creation of

Bore-well and pump house in the project villages.

In most of the villages, water availability is a perennial problem. This leads toless availability of water for drinking, cleaning of household utensils, and

animal maintenance. Water scarcity is more prominent in areas like Kapadvanj

and Balasinor. In most of the societies in this area water availability for

cleaning the milk collection area, utensils, and cans is meager leading to

improper maintenance of hygienic conditions. Also since the water availability

is restricted cleaning of animals before milking is also observed to be not in

place. All these factors lead to contamination of milk from the milk production

point itself.

Providing water facilities through bore well will help the entire village to have

continuous source of water for drinking water, cleaning and also able to

maintain milch animals. This will become an aid / tool in generation of income

and overall economic development of the village.

Therefore it is proposed in the project to create drinking water facilities at least

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Annex 6: Provide Stainless steel cans to societies

In developed countries particularly in India traditionally aluminum cans are

being used for transportation of milk from society/collection point to the dairy

dock since last five decades or so. Over a period of usage of aluminum cans, the

cans and lids get dented leading to cracks, leakage and uneven surface. To

prevent leakage the cans are required to be welded. This leaves rough surfaceleads to deposition of milk solids. Such deposits are not easily cleanable and

thus become a source of contamination leading to spoilage of milk.

Stainless steel cans are easily cleanable, can withstand rough handling and not

easily dented.

Since control of microbial hazards right from the source is gaining acceptance

world over in terms of food safety point of view, it becomes mandatory to

introduce all possible control measures that ensures safety of consumers.

Therefore it is proposed to gradually replace aluminum cans with stainless steelcans in phased manner. In order to achieve it is proposed in the project to

introduce 4000 stainless steel cans.

Annex 8: Creation of door step Artificial insemination facility.

In order to have sustainable milk production and continuos income generation it

is essential the animals are made pregnant within 60 days of calving. This will

help in reducing the non-milking period of animals to a minimum period thus

increasing the income of the family leading to faster repayment of loan.

In order to achieve this it is essential to increase number of animals to undergo

artificial insemination process. Small liquid nitrogen containers with frozen

semen doses shall be provided to the milk society personnel so that breeding

facility could be given at the door step of the proposed project villages.

Therefore it has been envisaged to provide small cryo liquid nitrogen container

of 3 L capacity to target villages to create door step breeding facility for the

milk animals of the BPL families.

Such facility reduces cost of AI service, improve the pregnancy rate and milkproduction thereby generating additional income.

Under the proposed project it is projected to create 50 doorstep artificial

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Annex 9: Establishment of mobile diagnostic lab for animal health care

At present Amul provides need based services of treating milch animals.

Animals treated only when they are fallen sick this kind of treatment practice is

in place in all the villages since last 50 years. However there is no system of

follow-up of treatment in place. As per Codex code on hygienic practices for

milk and milk products, milk should be drawn from animals that:

i. are identifiable to facilitate effective animal management practicesii. do not show impairment of general state of healthiii. do not show any evidence of infectious diseases transferable to

humans through milk.

The milk cannot carry unacceptable levels of zoonotic agents. Therefore, milk

originating from animals that are unidentifiable in terms of health status,

animals of unknown health status are separated and owners shall keep record of

relevant information with respect to treatment given.

In order to minimize or prevent the introduction of drug residues in milk and

milk products good animal husbandry procedures should be used to reduce the

likelihood of animal disease and thus reduce the use of veterinary drugs. Milk

from animals that are been treated with veterinary drugs that can be transferred

to milk should be discarded until the withdrawal period specified for the

particular veterinary drug has been achieved.

The hygienic code also specifies the eradication of Tuberculosis and Brucellosis

in order to ensure the safety and suitability of the milk and milk products.

To achieve and follow the code it is envisaged to create mobile diagnostic lab.

This facility will aid to quick diagnosis of diseases so that timely and

appropriate treatment to sick animals could be provided. The mobile lab will

also continuously move in villages irrespective of specific demand for routine

checks, analyze drug residues, diagnose and help to eradicate diseases that are

of pathogenic in nature. This will help in controlling the unspecified levels of

drug residues in milk through monitoring of withdrawal period. Timely

treatment will also ensure the reduction in mortality rate of animals particularlyyoung calves. This will also help indirect economic benefit to producers.

The mobile diagnostic lab when put in operation will take care of at least

30,000 animals per year required under emergency conditions apart from

treating animals under routine check.


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Annex 10: Monitoring quality of milk for microbial load at milk

procurement point for incentives

As per Codex code of hygienic practice for milk and milk products milk should

be evaluated based on sampling of milk from individual farms or milk

collection centers. It is essential that control measures are applied at primary

production level to prevent microbiological contamination of milk. The initialmicrobial load significantly impacts the performance needed for the

microbiological control measures applied during and after processing. The

safety and suitability of the end product depends not only on the initial

microbiological load and efficiency of the process but also any post-process

growth of surviving organisms and post-process contamination.

Unlike in developed countries where milk is monitored for microbial load

right at farm level and is part of payment system, in India other than analyzing

milk for fat and SNF no such system is in place. Amul after implementingquality management system in combination with food safety management

systems (HACCP) has realized that unless the raw material quality is controlled

at source quality of end products cannot be improved.

As a matter of policy Amul started monitoring bacteriological quality of milk at

society level with effect from December 2000 to collect base line data. The

analysis was restricted to the milk collected from societies having bulk chilling

units. With continuos monitoring the quality of milk and cleaning schedules it

was possible to bring down the microbial count from several millions to less

than 2-4 million/ml milk. However, it was soon realized that unless a kind ofquality management system is introduced at society level continuos monitoring

will have only time-bound effect.

Therefore, as an organizational policy it was decided to implement ISO- 9001

quality management system at society level. Initially 50 societies got certified

for IS0-9001. After observing the improvements in quality of milk in these 50

societies it has been decided to implement ISO-9001 in all the societies. At

present 150 societies have been certified for ISO-9001 and another 100

societies will be certified by May 2003. This is perhaps first time the worldsuch kind of quality management system has been introduced at milk

production level by Amul.


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In order to encourage the societies to adopt quality management systems, the

union started monitoring the bacterial load of milk received from the societies

having village chilling units (144) and milk received from societies collecting

milk in cans who have been certified for IS0-9001 (170) to pay incentives on

milk meeting the microbial levels fixed. Initially about 30% societies were

meeting the microbial requirements. However, after one year of monitoring andimplementation of ISO9001, currently about 65% societies meet the standard on

microbial requirements. In the year 2003, the standard on microbial load has

further been revised from 2.5 million count/ml to 2.0 million count/ml milk to

strengthen the quality.

As per our preliminary investigation conducted in the year 1999 on prevalence

of sub-clinical mastitis, several thousand samples of cow and buffalo milk were

analyzed. It was observed presence of sub-clinical mastitis in about 20 percent

population of milch animals suffering from mastitis. Presence of sub-clinicalmastitis in milch animals not only reduces the milk yield but also affect the

product quality. Hence it is essential to monitor the quality of milk not only for

presence of sub-clinical mastitis but also to identify and treat the animal within

minimum possible period.

It is proposed to bring all village cooperatives under this milk quality

monitoring and incentive program. This will help societies to get extra income,

improve the quality of milk and thereby good quality of final products.

In order to achieve this it is essential to have automatic bacteriological analyzer(Bactoscan) to analyze 1000 samples per day for total microbial count and a

Somatic Cell Counter to detect sub clinical mastitis.


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2. Milk enhancement through scientific tools

Scientific tools play important role to enhance milk production at minimum

cost. To train BPL youth for better animal husbandry practices, it is proposed to

arrange one-week training program. The training component will includetheory, practical and field visits. There will be conducted to BPL youth in

batches. Ten programs in a year are planned to be conducted.

3. Women leadership development program for BPL family woman.

Leader is a base of revolution; therefore it is proposed that BPL family women

must be trained for leadership for shouldering the larger responsibility. It is

therefore to conduct two days leadership development program in batches. The

training component includes theory, practical, and arranged visits to variousplaces which are managed by women to help them to understand the leadership

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A. Strengthening training center

For effective training, we need to strengthen and create conducive appropriate

training environment. Currently we have training centers established several

years back. However, with the technological advancements, the trainingrequirements have also changed. Therefore, keeping in mind the kind of modern

training requirements, it has been proposed to upgrade the existing training

center with all kinds of ultra modern facilities. New audio visual aids, photo

panels, display boards shall be added to this center. All the trainees shall be

trained by an experience staffs. Facilities for classroom, boarding and lodging,

library, seminar halls for trainees will be created additionally. Presently only 12

farmers are being trained in a batch. By expanding this facility it can

accommodate 45 candidates at a time.

This center will provide specialized training for the target beneficiaries on skill

up gradation on Animal husbandry, A.I training to village BPL youth for self

employment.

This center shall act as farmer's resource center for the entire area. Presently 45

days first aid and artificial training is being provided to the lay inseminator of

villages. Once the proposed center is modernized, the center will conduct

training on Pregnancy diagnosis. This will benefit the proposed beneficiaries to

reduce the inter-calving period.

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