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| Obectives of IDA |
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To provide opportunities
for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge and ideas gained
from experiments and experience through meetings, conferences,
seminars and for collaboration between persons and/or institutions
interested in research & planning and those in production,
processing and marketing;
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To practise and promote
a high standard of objectivity, scientific expertise and technical
proficiency;
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To encourage and promote
scientific research and development related to dairying;
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To promote and participate
in every way the rational and economic development of dairy
science, industry and farming in the country in association
with cooperatives, industry, or any other organisation, national
or international, having similar aims and objectives;
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To assume any responsibility
or functions when asked to do so, on behalf of Government towards
the advancement of dairying;
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To collaborate with societies,
associations, or any other organisation, national or international,
having similar aims and to participate in meetings held in India
or abroad centered around similar objectives;
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To promote standards (qualitatively
and otherwise) and to foster the growth of the dairy industry
in general and for the purpose engage in consultancy activities,
set up laboratories and do such like or other things as are
necessary for the purpose.
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| Role of IDA |
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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.
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To organise periodic Conferences, Seminars
and Workshops on subjects of current interest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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