{"id":131668,"date":"2026-11-02T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=131668"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:12:08","slug":"national-programme-for-dairy-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-programme-for-dairy-development\/","title":{"rendered":"National Programme for Dairy Development: New Milk Testing Lab to Open in Sikkim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Programme for Dairy Development Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is set to inaugurate a microbiology laboratory for the Sikkim Milk Union under the National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Programme for Dairy Development<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>Central Sector Scheme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> implemented by the <\/span><b>Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>launched in 2014<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has been restructured\/ realigned in July 2021 for implementation from 2021-22 to 2025-26 <\/span><b>to strengthen dairy infrastructure and dairy cooperative systems.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to <\/span><b>enhance quality of milk and milk products<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and increase share of organized procurement, processing, value addition and marketing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Nodal Ministry:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Components of National Programme for Dairy Development<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Component A:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It focuses on <\/span><b>strengthening of infrastructure for quality milk testing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equipment as well as primary chilling facilities for State Cooperative Dairy Federations\/ District Cooperative Milk Producers\u2019 Union\/SHGs\/Milk Producer Companies\/Farmer Producer Organizations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Component \u2018B\u2019: It <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aims to <\/span><b>increase sales of milk and dairy products<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by increasing farmer\u2019s access to organized markets, <\/span><b>upgrading dairy processing facilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and marketing infrastructure and enhancing the capacity of producer owned institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2331374&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is set to inaugurate a new microbiology laboratory for the Sikkim Milk Union under the National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD). Launched in 2014, the Central Sector Scheme aims to strengthen milk testing, chilling, processing and marketing infrastructure while improving milk quality and expanding organized market access for dairy farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":131655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11296,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-131668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-national-programme-for-dairy-development","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131696,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131668\/revisions\/131696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}