Indian Dairy Association (West Zone)

Indian Dairy Association ( West Zone ) is one of the four zonal branches  of  the Indian Dairy Association  with its area of operation spread over the states of Goa, Diu and Daman, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra of Western India. IDA ( WZ ) with its office in Mumbai has a Gujarat State Chapter located at Anand. The states in West Zone produce more than 21% of India’s annual milk production of 100 million tons and provide livelihood to 14.25 million milk producers who rear 24.64 million milch animals.

• To provide opportunities for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge and ideas gained from experiments and experience through meetings, conferences, seminars and for collaboration between persons and/or institutions interested in research & planning and those in production, processing and marketing;
• To practise and promote a high standard of objectivity, scientific expertise and technical proficiency;
• To encourage and promote scientific research and development related to dairying;
• To promote and participate in every way the rational and economic development of dairy science, industry and farming in the country in association with cooperatives, industry, or any other organisation, national or international, having similar aims and objectives;
• To assume any responsibility or functions when asked to do so, on behalf of Government towards the advancement of dairying;
• To collaborate with societies, associations, or any other organisation, national or international, having similar aims and to participate in meetings held in India or abroad centered around similar objectives.
• To promote standards (qualitatively and otherwise) and to foster the growth of the dairy industry in general and for the purpose engage in consultancy activities, set up laboratories and do such like or other things as are necessary for the purpose.

IDA Zones & State Chapters

The IDA's Head Quarter is in Delhi and the zonal branches are in Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. It has State Chapters at Anand in Gujarat, Thrissur in Kerala and Jaipur in Rajasthan. The zonal bodies and State Chapters too have committees on the line of  CEC and have similar functions. The Zonal Bodies/State Chapters are headed by Chairman to function on the lines of the role of the President vis-à-vis CEC. The Zonal bodies/ State Chapters also conduct conference, seminars and workshops at the Zonal and State levels. They also, from time to time, hold All India Dairy Industry Conferences on behalf of the CEC. According to the constitution, the zonal bodies and the State Chapters are independent resource centres. The difference between the CEC and the zonal bodies/State Chapters are that the CEC functions at the national level whereas the zonal bodies and the State Chapters function at the zonal and state levels, respectively.