Verghese Kurien was the founder of Operation Flood and the National Dairy Development Board in India. He helped establish the Amul cooperative model that transformed India's dairy industry. Some key points: - He helped establish the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union (Amul) in 1946 which introduced a cooperative model for milk production and marketing. - He led Operation Flood from 1970-1997, which made India the largest milk producer in the world through dairy cooperatives and increased milk availability nationwide. - The Amul model demonstrated that farmers' cooperatives could successfully market milk and milk products against large corporations through economies of scale, quality standards, and national branding.