Buffalo milk powder
Leche en polvo de búfala
- Date
- 1955 · confidence high
- Place
- Amul, Anand, Gujarat, India
- Credited to
- Harichand Megha Dalaya, with Verghese Kurien
- People
- 👤 Harichand Megha Dalaya1921–2004👤 Verghese Kurien1921–2012
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Process for spray-drying buffalo milk, fattier than cow's milk, which experts considered impossible to turn into powder. It let the Amul cooperative preserve the monsoon surplus and was the basis of the 'white revolution'.
What it led to
- dairy cooperatives of Anand
- Operation Flood (1970) and India's dairy self-sufficiency
- industrial-scale infant formula and buffalo cheese