About Cooperative Services 

Three Tier Structure 

The dairy co-operative organization operates on three tier system wherein farmer members own dairy co-operative societies (DCS) which own district milk producer's union. The unions collectively own the RCDF (Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation).

It is a vertically integrated structure that establishes a direct linkage between those who produce the milk and those who consume it.

Role of Federation - Provides service & support to unions. Marketing within & outside state, liaison with government and NGO agencies, mobilisation of resources & coordinating & planning programmes / projects. 

Role of Union - Develops village milk cooperative network, procures milk from DCS, processes & markets. Sale of cattle feed and related inputs, promotion of cross breeding through Artificial Insemination (AI) and NS, promotion of fodder development and general support & supervision to DCS.

Role of DCS - Provides input services (AH, AI) to its members and procurement of milk.

The dairy co-operatives depict the following institutional properties:

• Democratically elected board of DCS, milk unions & federation from among their members.

• Adoption of such bye laws which ensure democratic process on the principles of cooperation.

• Management & ownership of assets by the cooperatives.

• Autonomy in pricing, marketing & appointment of personnel.

• Employment of professional.

• Total control of the organisation is in the hands of its members.

Purpose of Co-operative Organization

• Voluntary And Open Membership - Cooperatives are voluntary organizations, open to all persons who are able to use the available services and are willing to accept the responsibilities of membership.

• Democratic Member Control - Cooperatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members, who actively participate in setting policies and making decisions.

• Member Economic Participation - Members contribute equitably to, and democratic control, the capital of their cooperative.

• Autonomy And Independence - Cooperatives are autonomous, self help organizations controlled by their members.

• Education, Training And Information - Cooperatives provide education and training for their members, elected representatives, managers and employees so they can contribute effectively to the development of their cooperatives.

• Co-operation among Co-operatives - Cooperatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the cooperative movement by working together.

• Concern For Community - While focusing on member needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities.

Training 

At Jaipur Dairy, training is provided for several area related to DCS operations viz DCS secretary, Management Committee member, AI workers, milk tester, first aid worker, chairman orientation, dairy animal management and various refresher courses etc.

To enhance active participation of the producer members in the DCS, to create awareness about improved animal husbandry practices viz feeding, crossbreeding, animal management and stimulate fodder production, extension activities are carried out at DCS and at milk unions. Under farmer's induction & orientation programme, visits to the dairy plants are arranged to demonstrate the process & disposal of the milk collected from the producers. Producers also taken to visit the model Indian dairy cooperative-Anand Milk Cooperative Union (AMUL) in Gujarat and they in turn educate other milch animal owners in their area about the practices and benefits of cooperatives. Audio-visual aids, field demonstrations, extension camps are used to explain feeding, breeding, fodder development and clean milk production practices.

Milk Collection & Testing

Jaipur Dairy’s procurement is village level milk producer's cooperative society. These village Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) provide a remunerative market to producers. DCS collects milk from milk producers and transport to Jaipur Dairy Plant via network of BMCs. Milk supplied by the producers are weighed, samples drawn for quality testing and payment is made on the basis of quantity and quality of milk (Fat %). In the beginning, DCS started with traditional manual operated centrifugal machine for fat testing. This system was expensive, hazardous, time consuming and producers were not sure of fat content of milk supplied by them. To handle this situation, during year 1984-85 Electronic Milk Tester (EMT) was installed at about 50 DCS. Since EMT gave instant digital display of fat content of the milk but due to non-availability of maintenance support and funds during a period of about 10 years, new expansion could not be made. In the year 1996 it was decided by Jaipur Dairy to have more stress on automation of milk reception at village level DCS as well as at Jaipur Dairy Plant. EMT found immediate acceptance and faith of milk producers, it was then felt that accuracy and consequent transparency can result in growth of milk procurement. Based on success of this large number of EMT were installed at DCS in phased manner whereas the remaining work like weighing, recording of data registers, calculation of amount payable and accounting was all done manually.

As next step, electronic weigher which along with EMT were attached to a processor which printed payment slip for every sample collected at DCS. 

This enabled a prompt payment slip to the milk producers, but the problem of maintaining records accounting continued to exist. This problem become more acute, as the success resulted in increase in membership, milk collection and therefore accounting activities was also increased. Owing to this Jaipur Dairy took a further a bold step of providing a paradigm shift in technology by introduction of Smart Automatic Milk collection Station (SAMCS) at village level. This also sought to exploit the potential of the PC for computerizing the other activities of the society, namely accounting, profit distribution, inventory management of trading items, provision of services and other data. 

As a result of this vision, Jaipur Dairy introduced the personal computer (PC) based Milk Collection Station. The Milk Collection Station performs on-line capturing of fat content of the milk and the weight of the milk supplied and immediately prints the payments slips. It simultaneously stores the data for further use in the accounts of the society. This data could also be put to use for calculation of profits, and its distribution as it is directly linked to the milk supplied over the year.

The PC could also be put to use for automation of other activities of the society like management of inventory of trading items of DCS, accounting of various veterinary services, animal breeding, animal health care services provided by the society. The generation of such a data-base would lead to another application in future namely the data mining for study of cattle-breed management, milk collection improvement, health-care, economic, education and other statistics of the milk producers at the village level affiliated with the society. This data could further be transmitted and pooled through internet at the decision-making level for further policy planning, control and effective monitoring. Presently more than 85% of DCSs in our milk shed (comprising of Jaipur and Dausa district) have either AMCS or EMT. Besides the automation of village level dairy cooperatives, the milk can reception system at the Jaipur Dairy dock i.e., the Raw Milk Reception Dock (RMRD) has been modernized with the installation of an RMRD Automation Network System, which was first of its kind in country.

The automation system records weight data from the two reception docks automatically, with entry of various parameters like route code, DCS code, sample number, number of cans, types of milk etc. Similarly recording of milk quality analysis data consisting of Fat% and SNF% is also provided. On completion and collection of the weight and analysis cycle for a particular route, both the data are processed and collected for printing the truck sheets. The data i.e. both the merged and individual ones are available for further processing. In addition, processed data on milk can summary, route summary, daily summary etc., can also be obtained. The software has provisions for numerous formats and has the usual MIS features. The software is user friendly and has inbuilt features for quality & quantity validation and checking. It also has user secured features for user auditing and performance monitoring. This is a special feature as it prevents manipulation by means of the 'password' authorization control, which is configurable only by competent authorities. 

Bulk Milk Coolers

Bulk Milk Cooler popularly known as BMC, is one of the equipment used in milk procurement process. Basic objective is to preserve the quality of milk poured by cooling down the temperature of milk to 4 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, growth of bacteria responsible for deterioration of quality of milk is controlled and sourness/curdling of milk is avoided. This benefits milk producers and DCS from any potential monetary losses because of milk getting soured. Besides this, use of BMC has reduced expenditure cost on purchase of milk cans/lids and giving comparatively more time to milk producers to pour milk residing at farther distance from BMC DCS. Overall resulting in increase in number of milk producers, as well as milk procurement. BMC has helped DCS in getting accurate values of milk Quantity, Fat% & SNF. All these factors have led increase in viability of BMC DCS. Financially sound DCS can give additional milk purchase price to its milk producers, during lean season.

Jaipur milk union is having a very large network of about 700+ BMC through its DCS network with a chilling capacity of 15 Lac liter milk per day. The BMC have been received under various Schemes like CLEAN MILK PRODUCTION (CMP) & RASHTRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJNA (RKVY) National Dairy Plan.