Dairy Capital

On the 3rd I moved to Anand, about 200km north of Mumbai - which is considered the "Dairy Capital" of India. This is home to Amul the largest and most well know dairy cooperative in the country. The fact that they have created an empire of sorts one farm at a time, usually with 2-3 cows on each farm is absolutely astonishing. To see farmers of all ages lined up every morning and night, delivering their milk to the village society (one of 14,000 of them!) is an amazing sight. They control everyting from collection to production of prodocts and all marketing. They are the largest food packaging group in Asia! It makes me wonder where the traditional co-ops of the US have gone.