Its programmes and activities seek to strengthen farmer cooperatives and support national policies that are favourable to the growth of such institutions.

Until this time, India's own dairy industry was limited in its capacity and dominated by traders who set pricing.

[7][8] Between the start of the NDDB's landmark project in 1970, Operation Flood and its founder's retirement in 1998, India quadrupled its milk production, with the board's technical and organisational support.

[14] In 2000, in accordance with the plans of NDDB to reach out to more states, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the administration of Ladakh to promote dairying and rural livelihoods in the newly formed union territory.

As of 2020[update], a twice weekly, 30-minute episode was broadcast from Nagpur, Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Osmanabad and Nanded radio stations on subjects related to scientific dairy animal management.