Why dairy must lead India’s gender-justice agenda

How dairy is changing rural women's lives

Women perform 70% of India's dairy labour but have long been excluded from the proceeds; 48,000+ women-led village cooperatives and direct digital payments to individual bank accounts are now shifting control. Dairy's daily payment cycle — unlike seasonal crops — builds credit history and financial agency faster than any other rural income mechanism, making cooperative access and account ownership the key policy levers.