He is also known as the 'Father of the White Revolution'
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New Delhi: Google is celebrating Verghese Kurien's 94th birth anniversary with its doodle. The doodle shows the white revolution with milk can in the hands of the popular social entrepreneur, along with a cow standing nearby.
Kurien, also known as the 'Father of the White Revolution,' turned India from milk-deficient country to the world's largest milk producer, exceeding America in 1998 with about 17 percent of world's output in 2010-11. Not only this, with his efforts, daily farming became India's largest self-sustaining industry.
His biggest creation was Amul brand of daily products. Verghese Kurien died on September 9, 2012 in Nadiad, Gujarat. He was 90 years old.
( Source : ANI )
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