Yogakshemam 261124
Panchamrt muhurat
Dr Verghese Kurien, 103. Milkman of India. Dairy Board, White Revolution, Operation Flood. Operation Goldenflow. Market Intervention Operation in edible oilseeds/oils. AMUL, Dhara. Cooperatives. IRMA. Milk self-sufficiency and India as the largest milk producer by 1998. The trio – Tribhuvandas Patel Kaka, HM Dalaya, Dr Kurien – set the ball rolling. Dr RP Aneja, Ms. Amrita Patel joined hands with K later. He served GCMMF/AMUL – Federation of Milk Unions in Gujarat – for some 33 years, since inception. He served the Dairy Board since its founding for 33 years. And IRMA for some 33 years since inception till his death. Bharat Ratna: did India miss to give it to him?
We should not miss reading: An Unfinished Dream; I Too Had a Dream; The Man Who Made the Elephant Dance; The man with the billion litre idea (Amar Chitra Katha). Should not Miss seeing ‘Manthan’, funded by dairy farmer members.
Milk. Dairy milk. India is the largest producer in the world (~25%). 30 Crore people live in dairy farm families in India. Milk is consumed as raw milk, pasteurised milk, skimmed, double tone, single tone, standard, whole milk, powder, cream, butter, curd/yoghurt, ghee, cheese, ice cream, sweets. Lassi, buttermilk, flavoured milk etc. In tea, coffee, milk shakes. Soaps, shampoos. Bathing milk. Most diary milk comes from cows, hybrid cows, followed by buffaloes, goats, sheep, camels, donkeys, yak, etc.
Constitution. The Supreme Court confirms Socialist, Secular character of India, as amended and mentioned in the Preamble.
Maharashtra CM is still to be finalized. We have to wait.
India starts the Australia-India Cricket series in Australia with 1/5 at Perth.
Sarvail Gurukulam, the first one in the country, has been renovated, and new buildings added.
Global order is still evolving, with a disruptive nudging towards the east and ‘south’.
The National Mission on Natural Farming, NMNF, is finally cleared by the Union (GoI) Cabinet. Outlay – Rs.2481 Crore, till 25-26. the 15th Finance Commission may extend it. 1 Crore farm families on 7.5 lakh hectares at GP level, particularly where NF practice is already prevalent. Bio-input resource centres, up to 10,000, provide access to and make available NF ‘inputs’. 2,000 Model Demonstration Farms, 30,000 resource persons from the community would be servicing the willing farmers. Access to certification systems and branding. Geo-tagged farms. Convergence extending support in this effort. Students into NMNF through existing agriculture and related courses. Dedicated NF undergraduate, postgraduate and other courses. Hope launch would be soon, and states, civil society, collectives can get hooked in by early 2025.
Global Cooperative Conference 2024 starts in New Delhi. 2025 is observed as the International Year of Cooperatives. A cooperative in each village in the next 3 years – may be a working PACS. 3 national cooperatives: organics (NCOL), exports (NCEL), seeds-beej (BBSSL). AMUL, IFFCO, KRIBHCO as world mentors on cooperatives. A national cooperative university. Will this be IRMA, I hear? Can we get a trio – NF, Collectives, Research-Academics-Learning – going forward together, hand-in-hand? Can India become the default N-way in the amrt kaal, 10% by 2036, from the 0.5% by 2026? Can we?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing, relentlessly. In N? tapasyayoga for 7L.
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