BIHAR STATE CO-OPERATIVE MILK
PRODUCERS' FEDERATION LTD.

Organisation

The Bihar State Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd. (COMPFED) was established in 1983 as the implementing agency of operational Flood programme of dairy development on “Anand”pattern in Bihar.

Area of Operation

There are five district level Milk Producers' Cooperative Unions affiliated to the Milk Federation. These milk unions are covering twenty-two districts and in addition four districts are being covered by the Federation.

Different milk unions, which are organising the DCS network in these districts are as follows:

i. Vaishal Patliputra Milk Union, Patna covering Patna, Vaishali, Nalanda and Saran districts.

ii. DR Milk Union, Barauni covering Begusarai, Khagaria, Lakhisarai & Saharsa districts.

iii. Tirhut Milk Union, Muzaffarpur covering Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, East Champaran, West Champran, Siwan and Gopalganj

iv. Mithila Milk Union, Samastipur covering Samastipur, Darbhanga & Madhubani districts.

v. Shahabad Milk Union, Ara covering Bhojpur, Buxar, Kaimur & Rohtas districts.

The Milk Federation has already taken up organisation of Dairy Co-operative Societies (DCS) in the districts of Gaya, Jehanabad, Munger and Bhagalpur. Work has also been initiated in Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura districts.

The districts of East and West Singhbhum, Ranchi, Bokaro and Dhanbad now in Jharkhand are being covered by the dairies directly under the control of Milk Federation for the supply of milk and milk products to the urban consumers in these cities. Procurement of milk has been taken up in Ranchi districts only.

Physical Performance

The physical performance indicators are showing a steady growth. The policy decisions taken to make it a truly farmers organisation is shown the achievements listed below.

DCS Organisation and Membership

“Sudha” milk and milk product has become a symbol of qualitty. As on date nine out of ten dairy plants are ISO:9001:2000 and HACCP:IS:15000 :1998 certified.

Organisation of Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) and Membership

Particulars	1987-88	1997-98	2002-03	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07*
DCS Organisation	1669	2884	4018	5103	5243	5684
DCS Functional	1462	2306	3285	4073	4179	4432
Membership ('000)	65.60	147.20	213.58	255.71	267.18	279.13

Milk Procurement Enhancement Program (TIP)

The technical inputs program is one of the crucial activities of the milk unions / Compfed and is the major strength responsible for the success of dairy cooperatives. The main technical inputs given to milk producers include breeding facility, animal health cover, feed & fodder and extension/training services. The inputs provided to the farmers are elaborated below.

Artificial Insemination (AI) Program

Artificial insemination with frozen semen using liquid nitrogen (LN) technology is done by static (single) and mobile (cluster) AI workers who are self-employed persons specially trained by Compfed. The progress of establishment of AI centres is as follows:

Milk Union	1987-88	1997-98	2002-03	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07*
Patna	120	136(48)	212(85)	237((111)	236(110)	250(116)
Barauni	57	104(35)	156(55)	154(50)	166(52)	176(53)
Muzaffarpur	20	70(28)	112(49)	134(56)	164(60)	185(106)
Samastipur	29	103(35)	175(104)	183(112)	178(108)	192(112)
Bhagalpur	0	6(0)	0(00)	20(0)	22(0)	21(0)
Ranchi	0	2(0)	19(03)	19(5)	13(3)	13(3)
Shahabad	0	50(15)	152(47)	147(51)	149(50)	194(53)
Gaya	0	0	0	19(7)	21(7)	32(12)
Total	226	471(161)	826(343)	913(392)	949(410)	1063(455)

AI's Performed

Particulars	1987-88	1997-98	2002-03	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07*
Total	24926	294895	536672	553408	581746	332912

*upto Jan, 2007.

Note : Figures in parenthesis are of cluster centres whiere AI workers are provided a motorbike to cover 6 to 7 villages.

Adequate arrangements have been made to expand the coverage of dairy co-operative societies under this program. For AI training, training facilities available at Compfed hqr are being utilised and some persons are provided training at ERDTC, Siliguri, a NDDB managed training centre. Around 80.1% of the total functional DCS are covered under this program.

Animal Health Program

Main activities under animal health (AH) program include prophylactic vaccination, deworming, mastitis control program, organisation of veterinary/infertility camps and treatment of veterinary first ais cases. Resume of different components of AH program is as follows.

Prophylactic Vaccination

Around 1792 Veterinary First Aid (VFA) centres have been established which do the vaccinations. Prophylactic inoculations are mainly done against Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD), Haemorrhage Septicemia (HS), Black Quarter (BQ) and Theileriosis diseases. During 2001-02, after initial trial, mass vaccination with Trio-o-vac (combined FMD, HS and BQ vaccine) on the lines of Pulse Polio vaccinations in children was taken up. During 2006-07 till Jan, 07 about 3.25 lakh vaccinations have been done.

Mastitis Control Program

This program has been taken up with the technical assistance from NDDB. Under this program, screening of milch animals is done using "Mastect". The doubtful or sub-clinical cases are given treatment. Awareness amongst the milk producers is created for disinfecting the udders and teats after milking with a view to check the infection of animals. Milk unions provide necessary disinfectant and teat cups to the milk producers on cost basis.

Deworming

Worm infestation in the milch animals affects the productivity adversely. Hence, for improving the productivity and health of animals, deworming with broad-spectrum anthelmintics is arranged regularly by the milk unions.

Veterinary Camps

The milk unions organise veterinary camps where the milk producers bring their animals for treatment.

Feed and Fodder

Since, seventy five to eighty percent of the cost of milk production depends on the feeding of milch animals, this is very important affecting the economy of dairying activity. Both green fodder and balanced cattlefeed are required to be fed in appropriate quantities for optimising the output i.e. the production and also to maintain the health of the animal. The farmers in select dairy co-operative societies are being provided training through a computerised nutrition balancing system with the help of National Dairy Development Board.

Adult Cattlefeed (ACF) and Bypass Protein Feed (BPF) is manufactured by our cattlefeed plants (CFP) located at Patna, Ranchi and Muzaffarpur. The total installed capacity of these plants is 260 Metric Tonnes Per Day (MTD) The cattlefeed produced by these plants is supplied on cost basis to the farmers. Besides manufacturing BPF and ACF, CFP Ranchi also manufactures other livestock feeds to meet the requirement of Govt. farms in Bihar and Jharkhand. During 2006-07 till Jan, 2007, the sale of cattlefeed to DCS was 37905 MTs.

Green fodder is equally important in animal nutrition. Besides providing important nutrients, it helps in reducing the intake of balanced cattlefeed and in turn the cost of prodction. After prolonged extension work and persuation, the farmers have started not only the cultivation of different fodders in their fields but have started the production of fodder seeds.

Another important scheme under fodder development has been the treatment of straw with urea, which not only increases the palatibility of dry fodder but increases its nutritional value also. Feeding of urea treated straw helps in reducing the cost of production of milk. Farmers have now taken it up on regular basis and during 2006-07 till Jan, 07 about 2911 MTs of straw has been treated.

Training / Manpower Development

Capacity building / skill upgradation has been given maximum emphasis in implenting the dairy development program. This has been achieved through regular training of milk producers, management committee members (MCM) of DCS, staff of DCS / milk unions of Compfed. Training of milk producers, DCS staff and MCM has been mainly arranged at the Compfed training centre at Patna. Training programs organised at Compfed's training centre include programs of Society Operation for Secretaries, Orientation of MCM, AI & VFA training, Dairy Animal Management, Legal Literacy & Women Empowerment. Refreser courses and tailor made programs as per need of milk unions is also organised.

Name of the Program	Total trained	Women
Secretaries	3194	422
MCM	25297	5473
DAM	3249	636
Al	746	81
Other	3548	2762
Total	36034	2762

Clean Milk Production

Besides creating awareness amongst the milk producers about importance of clean milk production (CMP) program, efforts are made to install bulk coolers and link the DCS covered under CMP with these bulk coolers. Other actions taken include - Preponing arrival time of milk vehicles at chilling centres / dairy docks, use of Stainless Steel milk cans, sanitization of milk cans, vigerous testing of adulterants etc.