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ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) is one of the premier Institutes in the dairy sector, which has contributed a lot to the growth of the dairy industry and played a crucial role in India’s development of milk production with its continuous research.
NDRI also has a commercial Model Dairy Plant with a processing capacity of more than 60,000 liters of milk per day to provide hands-on training facilities to students and for scientists to carry out scaling up operations for products and processes developed in research labs.
NDRI has three major areas of R&D activities – dairy production, dairy processing and dairy extension/management. It has also set up a state-of-the-art facility of the National Referral Laboratory for Milk Quality and Safety and Climate Resilient Livestock Research Centre. The referral laboratory is useful for conducting R&D and standards development for milk and milk products. It will play an important role, particularly when the country would soon harmonise its standards of milk and milk products with Codex standards.