Obectives of IDA

  • To provide opportunities for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge and ideas gained from experiments and experience through meetings, conferences, seminars and for collaboration between persons and/or institutions interested in research & planning and those in production, processing and marketing;
  • To practise and promote a high standard of objectivity, scientific expertise and technical proficiency;
  • To encourage and promote scientific research and development related to dairying;
  • To promote and participate in every way the rational and economic development of dairy science, industry and farming in the country in association with cooperatives, industry, or any other organisation, national or international, having similar aims and objectives;
  • To assume any responsibility or functions when asked to do so, on behalf of Government towards the advancement of dairying;
  • To collaborate with societies, associations, or any other organisation, national or international, having similar aims and to participate in meetings held in India or abroad centered around similar objectives.
  • To promote standards (qualitatively and otherwise) and to foster the growth of the dairy industry in general and for the purpose engage in consultancy activities, set up laboratories and do such like or other things as are necessary for the purpose.