What is White Revolution 2.0?

About White Revolution 2.0:

• It is a comprehensive initiative aimed at empowering women farmers and creating job opportunities.
• The programme focuses on four key areas:
  • Empowering women farmers
  • Enhancing local milk production
  • Strengthening dairy infrastructure
  • Boosting dairy exports.
• Under White Revolution 2.0, the government aims to increase milk procurementby dairy cooperative societies by 50 percent over the next five years by providing market access to dairy farmers in uncovered villages/panchayats and increasing the share of the organized sector in milk procurement.
• The plan involves setting up and strengthening 100,000 newand existing district cooperative societies, multi-purpose district cooperative societies, and multi-purpose Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (M-PACS), which will be linked to milk routes with necessary infrastructure.
• Providing enabling infrastructure e.g. AMCU (Automatic Milk Collection Unit), DPMCU (Data Processing Milk Collection Units), testing equipment, Bulk Milk Coolers, etc., will be the key component of the initiative for carrying out dairy activities.
• Initially, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) will fund the initiative from its own resources, providing Rs 40,000 per M-PACS to 1,000 M-PACS.
• Future funding is expected from the proposed National Programme for Dairy Development 2.0scheme of the department animal husbandry and dairying (DAHD). 

Q1: What is the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)?

The NDDB was created to promote, finance and support producer-owned and controlled organizations. NDDB’s programmes and activities seek to strengthen farmer cooperatives and support national policies that are favorable to the growth of such institutions. Fundamental to NDDB's efforts are cooperative strategies and principles. NDDB’s efforts transformed India’s rural economy by making dairying a viable and profitable economic activity for millions of milk producers while addressing the country’s need for self-sufficiency in milk production.

Source: White Revolution 2.0 to empower women: Amit Shah