The Ujjain Sahakari Dugdh Sangh Maryadit, which is a member of MP State Cooperative Dairy Federation, Bhopal came into existence in the year 1976 and the main Dairy plant at Maxi Road, district Ujjain was commissioned in 1982. Under IDA & OF-II Dairy Development, the complete infrastructure regarding milk procurement, processing, milk & milk products marketing was created.
At present the union has a 250 TLPD dairy plant, 5 MTpd each manufacturing capacity plant for Butter & Ghee. In the milk-shed, 7 milk chilling centres have been established & functional in the five districts as per the following details:-
| SN
|
Name of District
|
Organised DCS
|
Functional
|
| Registered DCS
|
Proposed DCS
|
Total
|
| 1
|
Ujjain
|
558
|
351
|
0
|
351
|
| 2
|
Ratlam
|
314
|
202
|
0
|
202
|
| 3
|
Mandsour
|
461
|
370
|
0
|
370
|
| 4
|
Neemuch
|
214
|
155
|
0
|
155
|
| 5
|
Shajapur
|
158
|
88
|
0
|
88
|
| 6
|
Agar
|
278
|
176
|
0
|
176
|
| 7
|
Dhar
|
35
|
19
|
0
|
19
|
| 8
|
Dewas
|
8
|
1
|
0
|
8
|
| Total
|
2026
|
1362
|
0
|
1362
|
Near about 70,000 milk producer’s farmers have been enrolled themselves as members of organised Dairy Cooperative Societies. Out of that 20% are landless, 37% are marginal farmers & 30% are small farmers, out of these nearly 15% farmers belong to schedule caste and schedule tribes. These make the organisation a true representative of the economically weak section of the society.