While inaugurating a state of the art Whey Powder Plant at Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producer’s Union Ltd’s (Amul) satellite dairy in Khatraj in Kheda district, Vergese Kurian father of the ‘white revolution’ in India admired milk producers and milk cooperatives.
He also warned them to stay alert lest multination companies beat us. He also cautioned against “opportunists” aiming to destroy the cooperative institutes in the country.
The founding member of Amul dairy, Tribhuvandas Patel and dairy expert M M Dalaya. Came in for special praise from Kurien’s mouth as he said that he could not have achieved any thing with out them.
He patted milk producers of the cooperative societies for preserving the tradition of coming up with new products.
Earlier, he had made a surprise visit to Anand “down the memory lane’, He met officials and chatted with them of old times.