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Verghese Kurien Verghese Kurien March 12, 2021 About Verghese Kurien Verghese Kurien was born in Kozhikode, Kerala (then Madras Presidency) on 26th November 1921 into an affluent family. His father was a civil surgeon. He graduated in Physics from the Loyola College, Madras (now Chennai) and then completed a degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering in the same city. Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012), known as the “Father of the White Revolution” in India, was a social entrepreneur whose “billion-litre idea”, Operation Flood, made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustaining industry and the largest rural employment sector providing a third of all rural income. He pioneered the Anand model of dairy cooperatives and replicated it nationwide, based on various “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches, where no milk from a farmer was refused and 70–80% of the price by consumers was paid in cash to dairy farmers. In 1973, he set up the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. to set up dairies in a similar model (Anand pattern) all over Gujarat and use one brand name of Amul. An invention at Amul was the production of milk powder from buffalo milk instead of from cow milk, which was in short supply in India. He also made India self-sufficient in edible oils and fought against the “oil kings”, who used underhanded and violent methods to enforce their dominance over the oilseed industry. Kurien’s ‘White Revolution’ also led to the development of another brand ‘Mother Dairy’. Verghese Kurien Honored with Following Awards 1. Ramon Magsaysay Award – 1963 2. Padma Shri – 1965 3. Padma Bhushan – 1966 4. Krishi Ratna – 1986 5. World Food Prize – 1989 6. International Person of the Year (World Dairy Expo) – 1993 7. Padma Vibhushan – 1999.
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