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Verghese Kurien - Coggle Diagram

- - - - His father died when he was 22 years old and he moved under the tutelage of his maternal grand-uncle Cherian Matthai in Trichur.[2] He wanted to join the Indian army as an engineer but joined Tata Steel Technical Institute, in Jamshedpur as per the wishes of his mother from where he graduated.
        
        Kurien applied for a scholarship provided by the Government of India and chose to study dairy engineering. He was sent to the Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry in Bangalore where he spent nine months before being sent to United States on a government scholarship.
        
        Kurien developed the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union Limited (KDCMPUL) further which later became known as Amul.[16] Milk collection was decentralised and was directly procured from farmers at villages as a part of cooperatives.[17] Kurien and Patel were supported by then Home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who sent Morarji Desai to help organise the farmers.
        
        On returning, he increased the production of condensed milk at Amul, the import of which was banned by Government of India two years later. H. M. Dalaya, who Kurien persuaded to stay back at Anand after a visit from United States helped develop a process of making skim milk powder and condensed milk from buffalo milk instead of from cow milk.[23] In India, buffalo milk was plentiful, while cow milk was in short supply and Amul competed successfully against Nestle and later against Glaxo for baby food.[24]
        Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime minister also cut imports of butter in steps with Kurien promising and delivering an incremental increase of his production to eliminate the dependency on imported butter, especially from New Zealand.
        
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        Death
        Kurien died from an illness at the age of 90 on 9 September 2012 at a Nadiad near Anand.[44][45][46] He had a wife Molly and a daughter, Nirmala.[7][47] Kurien was brought up as a Christian before becoming an atheist
        
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        He graduated with a master's degree in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan in 1948. He went to Australia later when he learnt dairying which would help him set up the Amul dairy later.