Dairy Entrepreneur Development Scheme (DEDS) – Kerala State Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank

The main objectives are

To promote setting up of modern dairy farms for production of clean milk
To encourage heifer calf rearing, thereby conserving good breeding stock
To bring structural changes in the unorganised sector so that initial processing of milk can be taken up at the village level itself
To upgrade the quality and traditional technology to handle milk on a commercial scale
To generate self-employment and provide infrastructure mainly for unorganised sector