Established in 1948, Indian Dairy Association (IDA) is the apex body of the dairy industry in India. The members are from the cooperatives, MNCs, corporate bodies, private institutions, educational institutions, government and public sector units. IDA functions very closely with the dairy producers, professionals & planners, scientists & educationists, institutions and organisations associated with the development of dairying in India.
About IDA
Role of IDA
- Transmission of technical/scientific information to the members both to individual as well as institutions. This is achieved through publication of Indian Dairyman and Indian Journal of Dairy Science. Indian Dairyman, a monthly periodical, is a mouthpiece of the dairy industry, which besides publishing technical, scientific and trade-related articles, updates its members with latest information in dairy industry, including status in regard to domestic market prices. Indian Journal of Dairy Science is a bimonthly journal, which primarily covers research articles.
- To organise periodic Conferences, Seminars and Workshops on subjects of current interest.
- To maintain an inventory of dairy scientists, research workers and dairy planners and professionals employed in the different sphere of the dairy industry including consultants in the field.
- To undertake consultancy projects both overseas as well as in the country whenever such a request is received from any central ministry of the Government of India.
- IDA being a representative body of the Indian dairy sector, do time-to-time, intervene on the policy issues like presentation of pre-budget memorandum, addressing issues arising out of the tariff rates, import/export, sanitary standards including PFA issues etc. It has also been trying to address the issues arising out of WTO/SPS etc.
- To IDA has got a fairly well equipped Library and maintains a Data Bank, which stores information on Indian Dairy Industry as well as International Dairy Industry.
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