(This interview was published in Newstime on Friday 2nd July 1999) Interview: Dr. V. Kurien 'Co-ops can put MNCs out of Business' He is considered father of Indian White Revolution. A pioneer of the country's cooperative movement, Dr. Verghese Kurien has already spent over 50 years in the cooperative sector. As oneof the three panel members of the Cooperative Initiative Panel -- envisaged as a pressure group for the cause of the cooperative sector in the country -- Dr. Kurien speaks at length on the subject in an interview with Deepak Parvatiyar . Excerpts: Dr. Kurien, having spent over 50 years in the cooperative sector, where do you find the sector positioned today? I think with every passing year the cooperative movement is becoming stronger in India, particularly in the dairy field. Today we have 175 Anands. Those Anands have a membership of 10 million farmers and they are located in 22 states in India. They have at the village level 70,000 village coope
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