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Context

• The President of India, graced and addressed the 19th convocation of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research – National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR-NDRI) at Karnal, Haryana.

Details

About

• The National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal is India's premier institute for dairy research.

Establishment

• It was established in the year 1923.

Recognition

• The institute was accorded the status of Deemed University in the year 1989.

Contribution

• It has contributed a lot to the growth of the dairy industry and played a crucial role in India's development in milk production with its continuous research.

Commercial Model Dairy Plant

• NDRI also has a commercial Model Dairy Plant with a processing capacity of more than 60,000 litres 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.

Areas of R&D activities

• 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 harmonize its standards of milk and milk products with Codex standards.

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