The farm sector and dairy industry spread in the cooperative sector and dairy technology is a productive offshoot. Gujarat contributes 63 percent of milk production of the country. Moreover, Ahmedabad is the headquarter of the western chapter of All India Biotech Association and the body is supposed to take note of research in the field and coordinate related areas. A national conference on biotechnology was held in Ahmedabad by the Gujarat Science Foundation and the GSFC on July 26 and 27. Farmers from distant villages of Amreli, Kheda and Surendranagar had also participated in the seminar.
State government seems to have taken the message well and wishes to transmit it to the grass roots.