NDDB

Verghese Kurien (1921-2012) is credited with engineering India's White Revolution, converting the Kaira District Cooperative from a local milk union into the Amul and GCMMF cooperative structure that made India the world's largest milk producer through an institutional rather than a technological innovation.

The decision to build NDDB as a replicator of the Anand model across India's dairy belts, rather than to nationalise Amul, was the institutional choice that let the cooperative form scale without losing its producer-owned character.