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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Dairying in India, in general, is closely interwoven as an integral part of agriculture, and it has also been recognized as an instrument of economic and social change especially of the weaker sections of the rural community. Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Limited (KMF) is the apex body for the dairy co-operative movement in Karnataka. It is the second largest dairy co-operative amongst the dairy cooperatives in the country. One of the core functions of the federation is marketing of milk and milk products. The brand "Nandini" is the household name for pure and fresh milk and milk products. KMF has 14 milk unions covering all the districts of the state which procure milk from Primary Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) and distribute milk to the consumers in various towns/cities/rural markets in Karnataka. The unions consist of 468, 868 and 433 dairy cooperative societies respectively with a membership of 27,085, 72,001 and 44,012. Over a period of time, these unions are improving the socio economic conditions of the dairy entrepreneurs. Hence, through this paper an attempt has made to ananlyse the performance of milk union and selected the KBY milk union for the study. Further, highest procured DCS were selected in two zones and evaluated their physical and financial performance at the study period. The findings of the research revealed that the members of DCS enrolled in DCS had positively growth rate, 449 DCS were actively functioning. The CAGR was 2.08 and 2.05 significant at 5 per cent. Hence, it can be inferred that KBY milk union was found to be better performing in both physical and financial form last five years.