VADODARA/ANAND: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) chairman, Dilip Rath, has been unanimously elected to the board of the International Dairy Federation (IDF).
Rath is the second Indian to become part of IDF’s board. NDDB’s former chairman Dr Amrita Patel had become the first Indian and the first woman to be elected to the board in December 2010.
Established in 1903, IDF is an international non-governmental and non-profit association with a vision of “helping to nourish the world with safe and sustainable dairy”.
“It is a privilege for me to represent world’s largest milk producing nation and contribute to promoting dairying and meeting the UN sustainable development goals. I keenly look forward to furthering IDF board’s mandate,” said Rath, who got elected on Monday during the general assembly of IDF.
Rath is associated with IDF for the last 10 years as member secretary of the Indian National Committee (INC) and as a member of the standing committee on dairy policy and economics.
He had played a key role in signing the dairy declaration at the IDF World Dairy Summit in Rotterdam in October 2016 between IDF and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The declaration recognises the contribution of the dairy sector to the achievement of key sustainable development goals such as ending poverty and hunger, and protecting the environment.
INC had signed the Indian dairy sector’s endorsement to meet UN sustainable development goals with president and director general of IDF at the World Dairy Summit at Istanbul last year.
India to host World Dairy Summit 2022
Vadodara/ Anand: As secretary of the Indian National Committee, NDDB’s chairman Dilip Rath has taken the initiative to host the world dairy summit in India in 2022. The country will host the first post Covid-19 IDF World Dairy Summit 2022 in which over 1,000 participants including experts, academicians, dairy professionals are expected to participate from around 55 countries. The summit will be hosted in New Delhi.