New Delhi, Sept 11: Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India will inaugurate the IDF World Dairy Summit 2022, a congregation of global and Indian dairy industry lead- ers, experts, farmers and policy planners centering around the theme of ‘Dairy for Nutrition and Livelihood’ on Monday, September 12 in Greater Noi- da. Amit Shah, Hon’ble Union Minister of Home Affairs & Cooperation and Parshottam Rupala, Hon’ble Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying will be prominent among those to address the Summit, which is being held 48 years after India hosted the International Dairy Congress in 1974.
Mr Piercristiano Brazzale, President, International Dairy Federation (IDF), Ms. Caroline Emond, Director General, IDF, Jatinder Nath Swain, President of the Indian National Committee of IDF (INC-IDF) & Secretary, DAHD and Meenesh Shah, Secretary, INC-IDF & Chair- man, NDDB will coordinate this event.
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Yogi Adityanath, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Bhupendrabhai Patel, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat will grace the oc- casion. The inaugural session begins with prayer – Swasti Vachan Mantra – by artists. A walkthrough anamorphic (3D) audio-visual experience zone at the summit will show- case the evolution of Indian Dairy Industry & accomplish- ment of the sector. the technical sessions organ- ised during the event, and some of the Cabinet Ministers will also preside over the sessions. will showcase its transfor- mational journey through unique smallholder dairying primarily based on cooperative strategy.four-day long IDF WDS 22 assumes significance as a dom- inant majority of over 8 crore dairy farmers in India are small and marginal (having at an av- erage 2 bovines) making it the world’s numero uno dairying nation with an output of over 210 MT annually.
a unique feature of this edition of WDS is that the conference is designed to be a carbon-neutral event summit that will have 24 sessions centered around the theme “Dairy for Nutrition and Live- lihood” covering different aspects of dairying. Three parallel technical sessions would be held for which more than 150 overseas and Indian speak- ers have been empanelled. A poster session is also being organized with the theme “Innovations across Dairy Value Chain Aligning with UN SDGs”.
