| Name(s) |
VERGHESE KURIEN |
| Date of
Birth |
November 26, 1921
– Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala, India. |
| Date of
Death |
September 09, 2012
– Nadiad, Gujarat, India. |
|
Identity |
Founder of Amul and
Ex-Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was an Indian engineer and renowned social
entrepreneur.
- He is best known as the "Father of the White
Revolution", for his 'billion-litre idea'
or Operation Flood — the world's biggest
agricultural development programme.
- The operation Flood took India from being a
milk-deficient nation, to the largest milk producer in the
world, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 percent of
global output in 2010–11, which in 30 years doubled the milk
available to every person.
- Dairy farming became India’s largest self-sustaining
industry.
- He made the country self-sufficient in edible oils too
later on, taking head-on the powerful and entrenched oil
supplying lobby.
- He founded around 30 institutions of excellence (like
AMUL, GCMMF, IRMA, NDDB) which are owned, managed by farmers
and run by professionals.
- As the founding chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative
Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), Kurien was responsible
for the creation and success of the Amul brand of dairy
products.
- A key achievement at Amul was the invention of milk
powder processed from buffalo milk (abundant in India), as
opposed to that made from cow-milk, in the then major milk
producing nations.
- His achievements with the Amul dairy led Prime Minister
Lal Bahadur Shastri to appoint him founder-chairman of the
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965, to
replicate Amul's "Anand model" nationwide.
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Awards & Accolades |
- Hailed as the "Milkman of India",
Kurien won several awards including:
- 1999 Padma Vibhushan - Government
of India
- 1993 International Person of the Year Award - World
Dairy Expo
- 1989 World Food Prize - World Food Prize, USA.
- 1986 Wateler Peace Prize Award - Carnegie
Foundation, The Netherlands.
- 1986 Krushi Ratna Award -
Government of India.
- 1966 Padma Bhushan - Government of
India.
- 1965 Padma Shri - Government of
India.
- 1963 Ramon Magsaysay Award - Ramon
Magsaysay Award Foundation.
- He has received 12 honorary degrees from
universities around the world.
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