Sabarkantha District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (Sabar Dairy)

An Overview

The Sabarkantha District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd was established in the year 1964 by collecting raw milk from 19 primary co-operative milk societies and supplying it unprocessed to Ahmedabad Municipal Dairy. Municipal Dairy being a consumer oriented dairy it could not accept more quantity of milk during flush season and this had forced the Union to rotationally stop the milk collection from societies during flush season. The milk union could not expand its activities for the first seven years due to inadequate financial resources. In the year 1971 under Operation Flood-I Programme me of Indian Dairy Corporation (a Government of India undertaking) a dairy project was sanctioned for handling 1.50 lakh liters of milk per day. The total cost of the dairy plant was Rs.2.52 crore, which was received from the erstwhile Indian Dairy Corporation through the Government of Gujarat.