Milk and Milk Product Cluster Project With support of Ministry of MSME, Government of India HDF-cDAR has implemented the Mayurbhanj Milk and Milk Product Cluster Project at Badasahi in Mayurbhanj District of Odisha. While HDF-cDAR was the implementing agency of the project, the Institute for Entrepreneurships Development (IED) of Government of Odisha was the Nodal Agency and Foundation for MSME Cluster was the Technical Agency for the project. The basic objective of the project was to promote the livelihood of the dairy farmers from survival mode to sustaining mode by empowering them with skills, quality measures, establishment of Milk Processing Plant, assisting them in marketing in a sustainable way. HDF-cDAR executed the project in time and established the Milk Processing Plant, formed the informal producer groups for milk production and provided them necessary training and soft skills. As per the guideline of the SFURTI scheme, the implementing Agency, HDF-CDAR after commissioning of the Milk Plant in 2021 November handed over the project and all it’s related businesses to the Special Purpose vehicle (SPV), i.e, Grow Green dairy Trust formed for the purpose. In 2022- 23 and 2023-24, HDF-cDAR provided all handholding supports in terms of soft interventions like dairy development training, forming milk producer groups, village level meetings of the farmers, marketing assistance, branding of the products etc. The product like Milk, Ghe, Paneer, butter milk, lassi, khua, peda etc are being produced in the milk plant. These products are branded with a unique name called. TOA. Toa is the language of a Santali Tribe meaning milk. Since Mayurbhanj is a tribal district mostly dominated by santal tribes, we branded opur products to give it an indigenous flavour. Series of dairy development training were conducted during the reporting years involving experts, veterinary doctors, social development experts, dairy technologists etc. There were 12 numbers of such trainings and 27 numbers of village level meetings during the two years time. These capacity building programmes under the project enhanced the skill of the farmers in milk production and their income as well.