Women in dairy cooperative societies

• Women constitute ~70% of the dairy farming workforce in India and are ~35% of dairy cooperative members; their formal inclusion is treated as a vehicle for rural women's empowerment under the cooperative movement.
• Under the Ministry of Cooperation's "White Revolution 2.0", expansion of Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCSs) is explicitly tied to women's empowerment, employment generation and nutrition.
• Examinable both as a GS-I (women / SHG), GS-II (cooperatives, 97th CA Act) and GS-III (animal husbandry, agriculture) theme.