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Operation Flood, launched in 1970 is a project of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which was the world's biggest dairy development program, that made India, from a milk-deficient nation to the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 percent of global output in 2010–11, which in 30 years doubled milk available per person, and which made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustainable rural employment generator. It was launched to help farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. All this was achieved not merely by mass production, but by production by the masses. The ''Anand pattern experiment'' at ''Amul'', a single, cooperative dairy, was the engine behind the success of the program. Verghese Kurien was made the chairman of NDDB by the then Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, and he was the chairman and founder of Amul. Kurien gave the necessary thrust using his professional management skills to the program, and is recognized as its architect. ==Introduction== Operation Flood had created a national milk grid linking milk producers throughout India with consumers in over 700 towns and cities, reducing seasonal and regional price variations while ensuring that the producer gets a major share of the price consumers pay, by cutting out middlemen. By reducing malpractices, it had helped dairy farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. The bedrock of Operation Flood has been village milk producers' co-operatives, which procure milk and provide inputs and services, making modern management and technology available to members. Operation Flood's objectives included: * Increase milk production ("a flood of milk") * Augment rural incomes * Fair prices for consumers 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About NDDB )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Flood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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