Ahmedabad: The Amul dairy on Wednesday declared a list of ten rural women entrepreneurs of the banas dairy of Gujarat who involved in the business of dairy and animal husbandry and sold the highest amount of milk to Amul during FY 19-20.
Banas Dairy in Banaskantha district of North Gujarat is associated with Amul and is Asia's largest milk producer.
According to the list released by Amul Dairy Chairman RS Sodhi, Chaudhary Navalbeen tops the list and earned Rs 87,95,900.67 by selling 2,21,595.6 kg milk in 2019-20.
A large number of women have taken up animal husbandry as their profession. In a tweet, RS Sodhi tweeted that these women entrepreneurs have sold milk worth millions of rupees during 2019-20.
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Meet our 10 millionaire rural women entrepreneurs of @banasdairy1969 ofGujarat who involved in business of dairy & AH .They poured milk worth lacs of rs during fin yr 19-20. There are lacs of such empowered women in gujarat @Amul_Coop @girirajsinghbjp @ChaudhryShankar pic.twitter.com/WY2Ng4rGcB
— R S Sodhi (@Rssamul) August 19, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Meet our 10 millionaire rural women entrepreneurs of @banasdairy1969 ofGujarat who involved in business of dairy & AH .They poured milk worth lacs of rs during fin yr 19-20. There are lacs of such empowered women in gujarat @Amul_Coop @girirajsinghbjp @ChaudhryShankar pic.twitter.com/WY2Ng4rGcB
— R S Sodhi (@Rssamul) August 19, 2020Meet our 10 millionaire rural women entrepreneurs of @banasdairy1969 ofGujarat who involved in business of dairy & AH .They poured milk worth lacs of rs during fin yr 19-20. There are lacs of such empowered women in gujarat @Amul_Coop @girirajsinghbjp @ChaudhryShankar pic.twitter.com/WY2Ng4rGcB
— R S Sodhi (@Rssamul) August 19, 2020
These women have become an example for other women to take up animal husbandry in a big way.
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