Sabarmati Ashram Gaushala, is an epicentre for various biotechnical interventions for dairy breeding in India. The centre is the largest semen production facility holding around 600 bulls of various breeds at one place. The state-of-the-art semen processing lab and enormity of operations attracts professionals across the country to this centre.

The Gandhi Ashram, located in Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is one of the most significant historical and cultural sites in India. It was established by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 and served as his residence and the centre for the Indian freedom struggle. Tourist attractions are Hriday Kunj, the museum, the spinning wheel, and the prayer ground.

It is the oldest Progeny Testing project in the country, supported by NDDB since the 1980s. The project operates in 90 centres. The visitors will see how the performance recording activities are carried out at in the small holder system, village level milk collection activities, digitized records and the transparent payment system. There will be opportunity to interact with farmers, Artificial Insemination technicians and professionals involved in genetic improvement programme.

The Kaira District Milk Producers Union Ltd., popularly known as AMUL (Sanskrit meaning ‘Priceless’), is the oldest dairy cooperative in country. Starting its journey with the farmers of two villages and 250 litres of milk per day, it now handles more than 2.5 million litres of milk per day and provides livelihood to 3.6 million farmers.

The Tribhuvandas Food Complex, Mogar, manufactures AMUL chocolate, bakery products, and indigenous sweets. It is a state-of-the-art facility inducted in 2018 with a daily capacity of 36 metric tons of chocolate production.

Mujkuva is a small village near Anand. It is unique because it has cooperative societies associated with dairy, manure, solar and organic crop production. Mujkuva Sakhi Khad Sahakari Mandali is the first women-led manure cooperative in India; Mujkuva Solar Pump Irrigators Cooperative Enterprise helps farmers in generating and utilizing solar energy for irrigation and facilitates them to sell excess energy to the grid; and Mujkuva Organic Farmers Cooperative Society are all part of this integrated advanced milk collection system and environmental initiatives. The village also has a community fodder farm. Major attractions will be the dairy farm, flexi biogas plant and solar cooperative.

NDDB’s Parikrama is an immersive audio-visual display gallery that showcases the remarkable evolution of Indian small holder dairying, ultimately leading to India becoming the largest producer of milk globally. NDDB pioneered the concept of milk cooperatives and has nurtured them into a movement. Parikrama highlights NDDB’s cooperative strategies and various initiatives and activities undertaken by NDDB in Productivity Enhancement, Capacity Building, Sustainability, Product Development, Creation of Modern Infrastructure and Digitalisation.