The town of Anand in Gujarat is universally recognized as the cradle of India's White Revolution—the transformative dairy development program that made India the world's largest milk producer.
Spearheaded by visionaries Verghese Kurien and Tribhuvandas Patel, this cooperative movement empowered millions of rural farmers through the Amul model—a farmer-owned dairy cooperative structure that eliminated middlemen, ensured fair prices, and created a self-sustaining rural economy.
Anand's Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union became the template replicated nationwide, revolutionizing India's dairy sector from scarcity to self-sufficiency to global leadership. The town remains synonymous with cooperative innovation and rural empowerment.