Karnataka Milk Federation

Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) sells products such as pedha, paneer, curds and milk under the brand name of Nandini. It is a federation of milk producers association working on cooperative principles. Almost every district in state of Karnataka has milk producing co-operatives. The milk is collected from farmers who are its members, processed and sold in the market by the brand of Nandini. It is the second largest milk co-operative in India after Amul.[1] Chairman- Balachandra Jarkiholi

Karnataka Milk Federation
Nandini
Cooperative
IndustryDairy/Fast-Moving Consumer Good (FMCG)
Founded1974
HeadquartersBangalore,
Bangalore
,
India
Key people
Balachandra Jarkiholi (President)
Websitekmfnandini.coop

Background
Nandini milk and curd

The first of the dairy co-operatives that make up KMF started in 1955 in Kudige, Kodagu District. KMF was founded in 1974 as Karnataka Dairy Development Corporation (KDDC) to implement a dairy development project run by the World Bank. In 1984 the organisation was renamed KMF. KMF has 14 milk unions throughout the Karnataka State which procure milk from Primary Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) and distribute milk to the consumers in various urban and rural markets in Karnataka State with 1,500 members.[2]

History

The Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) was in the news in 2010 for price increases in milk.[3]

Occasionally, there is spillover from Karnataka politics into the activities of KMF,[4] including the elections for the post of chairman,[5][6] and the timing of the milk price hike[7] after the BBMP elections but before the Gram Panchayat elections in 2010.

Rajkumar has worked as the ambassador, free of cost and had done his first and last television commercial in 1996. Later Puneeth Rajkumar was selected as the ambassador for Nandini Products. In Dec 2009, Puneeth Rajkumar signed an agreement with KMF, free of cost. In 2014 Shriya Saran was selected as Nandini Good Life Product Ambassador in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh. Ragini Dwivedi was also selected as ambassador in Karnataka.

References
  1. "Karnataka Milk Federation launches Nandini brand milk in Mumbai". www.business-standard.com. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. "Karnataka Milk Federation". www.summer-foundation.org. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. "Nandini milk to turn costlier in Karnataka". Hindu Business Line.
  4. "Karnataka governor turns the heat on Reddy brothers". Daily News and Analysis.
  5. "Somashekhar Reddy elected KMF president". mangalorean. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.
  6. "The Milk War: The ruling BJP now has its own milk cooperative to counter Gowda's hold on the Karnataka Milk Federation". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  7. "'Milk price hike thrills farmers'". Deccan Herald.


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