TRAINING CENTER FOR MILK PRODUCERS AND DAIRY CO-OP. SOCIETIESAnandrao D. Patil (Chuyekar) Dugdh Vyawasaya and Animal Husbandry Training Center, Tarabai Park, Kolhapur.The training center established in assistance with National Dairy Development Board under the Operation Food Programme and started functioning from 1984. The importance has been given to training Human Resources and extensional aspect as well as Institution all Building in the operation flood programme.In order to strengthen & spread out the advanced technique in milk business to the rural milk producers, It is essential to impart the training to the members, management committee members as well as to the worker of the Dairy Co-op. Societies from time to time to bring socio-economical changes.OBJECTSReduce knowledge gap of DCS staff and milk producers.To sustain the Dairy Cop-op. impact in Kolhapur Milk shed.Improve production and clean milk production of DCS and Milk producers.To organize filed training to realize that How to improve person al knowledge, skill and techniques of A.I., Milk testing, milk collection and DCS organization.Self help and personality development through dairy business.To organize educational excursion to sustain impact of extension i.e. seeing is believing.THE SERVICE AND FACILITIES AVAILABLE IN THE TRAINING CENTRE:2 Class-rooms for 30 trainees each.Hostel / DormitoryLunch room / MessLaboratoryComputer RoomLibrary cum study room accommodating 30 traineesAudio Visual aids, Laptop, LCD projectorA conference hall accommodating 150 trainees.Due to the quality training and management this training center recognized by N.D.D.B. as Regional Training Center since 1986.All the milk unions in the state, the members of management committee of DCS, the secretaries, milk producers are certainly benefited by the training activity of Gokul.The details regarding the training that is being given in the training center at Tarabai Park, Kolhapur are as follows .1) Accounts Keeping and Secretarial Work TrainingSubject taught are as follows :This training imparted to DCS Secretary for Financial dealings like making receipts, vouchers and keeping daily accounts, maintaining topic-wise registers, Trial Balance, Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, records of business DCS, information about milk dairy business, a practical survey by field study and collection of Anand Pattern data.2) The Secretarial Management Training3) Secretarial Accounts and Management Training4) Milk Tester Training5) Milk collectors training (A system of collecting and measuring6) Milk Producer Farmers Training milk)7) Management Committee Members training (MCM Trg.)8) Artificial Insemination and First Aid training9) A.I. & First aid Refresher Training Subject taught are the same as number 8 above for revision. (AI Skill improvement)Training Fee:The training fees are Rs.200 per day per trainee. (25% subsidy i.e.150/- per participant of Gokul). The fees include lodging, boarding, stationery material along with tuition fee and field visits etc.Beside above training programmes, need based training programmes are also organized if demanded by other District Milk Union and state Govt. NGOs, Z.Ps etc. or other Co-operatives.