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India has nearly 1/6 of the world cattle population. Dairying serves to be a subsidiary occupation to the millions of the rural people. There is a growing demand for milk and milk products in urban areas. Rural people lacked a system of dairying based on commercial milk production, collection, transportation, processing and marketing of milk. Exploitation by Private traders taking advantage of such situation - Paying low price to the milk producer, indulging in adulteration of milk and charging high price from the urban consumer. In first Dairy cooperative society was registered in 1913 at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and was called "Katra Cooperative Dairy Society", Calcutta Cooperative Milk Union was registered in1919. The Madras Milk Supply Union was established in 1927. By the end of the 1930s, there were 19 milk supply unions covering 264 Primary societies. During the II-nd World War, the increased demand for milk and milk products from the army and acute shortage of milk in urban areas gave a new push to the organisation of many milk cooperative societies. However, most of the societies continued to be consumer oriented. The Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union at Anand (Amul) was formed in 1946 and constituted and important landmark in the development of dairy cooperative movement as this was the first producer oriented dairy cooperative forms in India.