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India's 'Anand pattern' dairy co-operatives are widely held to be a developmental model for Asia, Africa and Latin America, but have been criticized for their limited benefits to the poorest, their effect on rural women's work, and their use of capital-intensive imported technology. This book assesses the Kheda dairy co-operative in Gujarat that supposedly inspired the Anand pattern, and uses case studies from another Indian state, Kerala, to question the drive to 'replicate Anand'. It discusses the long-established and successful Choryasi dairy co-operative (also in Gujarat), that uses intermediate technology but has not been adopted as a model. The book then moves to an African country, Zi...
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India's cooperative dairying program is widely celebrated as an example of successful rural development, yet the meanings of this success have been understood mainly through the pronouncements of national and international development agencies. Within such official narratives, there has been relatively little engagement with the geographies of dairy development, both its place-specific productions through political contests, availabilities of labor, and distributions of agricultural resources, and the unevenness of its outcomes across rural India. This absence is even more surprising given that village-level cooperatives comprise the foundation of India's dairy development program, and the w...
A critical study aims to assess the impact of integrated Tribal dairy programme in terms of changed socio-cultural and socio-economic life of the tribal dairy farmers. Further, evolves a strategy for strengthening dairy development programmes and emphasizes their efficient running in tribal areas. Helps the concerned and others interested.
The obvious success of Operation Flood and the National Dairy Development Board established by the Government of India, has prompted Mascarenhas to undertake this study. In it, he adopts an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate Operation Flood as a strategy in rural development. He evalutes various rural development programmes attempted in India and other developing countries.
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