Le système coopératif laitier en Inde à l'épreuve de la libéralisation

In 20 years the average availability of milk has crossed 112 gms per day per inhabitant (1973-1974) to about 194 (1994- 1995). These achievements lie numerous technical and organizational efforts to tap a scattered supply system and make the product accessible to the urban population. These results are the fruits of « Operation Flood », launched by the National Dairy Development Board (nddb) in 1970- 1971. However, since the liberalization of the dairy sector in 1991, the increase in number of the private dairy industries threatens the monopoly of the nddb. But the possible imports of milk powder at low price, specially from Europe and New Zealand, could constitute the biggest danger to the producers and the nddb, and, in the longer term, to the national production of milk.