PM Modi launched the World Dairy Summit in Greater Noida, said - Small farmers are the strength of the dairy sector in India

IDF World Dairy Summit 2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address after inaugurating the World Dairy Summit in Greater Noida said that India's dairy sector is a great business model for farmers of many poor countries of the world. Most of the farmers involved in the dairy sector in India are small farmers.

Due to the hard work of these small farmers and their livestock, today India is the largest milk-producing country in the whole world. Today this sector is employing more than eight crore families in India.

The dairy cooperative system of India is an example in the world

PM Modi said that India's dairy cooperative system is another feature of our dairy sector. This dairy cooperative collects milk twice a day from about two crore farmers in more than two lakh villages in the country and delivers it to the customers. There is no middle man in this whole process and more than 70 percent of the money received from the customers goes directly into the pockets of the farmers.

Not only this, but if I talk about the state of Gujarat, then all this money goes directly into the bank account of women. Now due to the digital revolution happening in India, most of the transactions in the dairy sector have started happening at a very fast pace. I understand that India's Dairy Cooperative and the digital system developed for it can be of great use to the farmers of many countries of the world.