General Details about Lucknow Milk Union:

The Lucknow Producers Co-operative Milk Union Ltd was established on 23

March 1938. It is the first co-operative dairy established in India. Presently,
it is regulated under the Uttar Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act 1965.
Under the operation flood program of NDDB in 1970, Lucknow Milk Union
became part of Pradeshik Co-operative Dairy Federation.
The aim of the Lucknow Milk Union is to provide reasonable price to farmers
thereby defending them from exploitation of milk vendors and earn
supplementary income apart from agriculture.
At present, the Union is headed by General Manager who manages overall
functions of the Union and accountable to the Board for the smooth
functioning of the organisation. The Board is constituted by 14 members (9
are elected members and 5 are nominated members), who determine the
Unions policy, business strategy, delegate authority to management, and
monitor and evaluate the implementation of policies, strategies and business
plans.
Presently the Milk Union has a full-fledged dairy plant located at Lucknow
with a liquid milk processing capacity of 1.5 LLPD. The Union has also
capacity to process 4 MTPD Ghee, 5 MTPD Butter, 10 TLPD Chhenna, 10
TLPD Curd and 500 KgPD Paneer. The Union has 31 BMCs with a combined
capacity of 63 KL.
The major activities of the Union are procurement of milk, processing and
manufacturing of milk & milk products and delivery of various input
services to producer members.
The Union through its 692 functional DCSs with a membership of about
34484 milk producers. The Union also received about 140 TKgPD bulk milk
from 23 other milk unions of the state, as all the milk unions do not have
milk processing infrastructure so milk from adjacent milk unions is pooled
into Lucknow milk union, which has a dairy plant forming a cluster.

Innovations and Success stories in the Milk Union:

Milk production performance of dairy milch animals depends upon animal

health management practices viz, balanced diet, breeding, good housing,
proper health care & management etc. Several innovations are made to help
the producers which are as follows:

Deworming:
The Endoparasite, which grooms in stomach & intestine of milch
animals causes anemia, gastroenteritis, which results reduction in
milk yield, loss of appetite, emaciation & heavy infection and even
may cause death. For prevention doses of dewormer were developed
& distributed.

Tick Control:
The Ectoparasile which is very common in dairy animals in which
ticks stick on the animals skins & sucks blood. It may causes
anemia, reduction in milk yield & heavy infection may cause tick
fever, tick paralysis & death of animal. For prevention doses of tick
control kit were developed & distributed.

Mastitis Control:
Majority of animal suffering from sub clinical mastitis in which
mammary glands of animals get infected and udder get inflamed
causes poor quality and reduction in milk yield. As this disease is
very prevalent due to filthy animal living place, causes heavy
national loss in terms of milk production. For prevention doses of
mastitis control kit were developed & distributed.

Vaccination Programme:
Some diseases are infectious and may cause death of the animals.
The timely vaccination of milch animal may save its life. The A.H.
department covers the vaccination programme all over the Cluster
Milk Union.

Artificial Insemination:
A.I. is the only tool for improvement of animals breeds and hence
increase in milk production. Many dairy animals were inseminated.

Infertility Camp:
Huge population of dairy animals fail to exhibit estrus, ovarian
inactivity and causes anoestrus. For removal of this problem camps
were organised by Milk Union at village level societies.

Green Fodder Seed & Minikit:

Green fodder is succulent, palatable, & easily digestible which dairy
animals eat with interest. Leguminous green fodder crop also
increases soil fertility. A huge volume of green fodder seeds and
large number of minikit distributed among milk producers.