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About Banas Dairy

Banas Dairy (Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur) is a division of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation which is under the ownership of Ministry of Cooperation, Government of Gujarat based in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat, India and is Asia's largest milk producer. It was founded in 1969, in accordance with the 1961 rule of the National Dairy Development Board under Operation Flood. Galbabhai Nanjibhai Patel played an important role in the foundation of the dairy which headquartered at Palanpur. Banas Dairy collects an average of around 75.14 lakh liters of milk every day. In winter, milk collection increases to 90.86 lakh liters of record break milk collection, the highest collection rate in Asia. The company's products are marketed by Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Anand (AMUL) and currently largest member union of the latter. Banas Dairy has 0.18 million shareholders, which are spread across 1,450 cooperative societies.