All the 24 districts of Jharkhand are in non -"Operational Flood" area. At present there are 848 primary Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) with a total membership of 51,276 and 12 District Cooperative milk Unions have been organized so far on "AMUL" pattern. With view to selling the milk produced through these DCSs, 14 Milk chilling centers have been installed so far with a total handling capacity of 46,000 LPD (liters per day), against which the present handling is only about 3.000 LPD. The main reason for poor performance of these chilling centers is non availability of sufficient quantity of milk in their surroundings. Further installation of 2 milk chilling centers is in progress with a total estimated capacity of 4,000 LPD. The organized DCS are also either nonfunctional or not able to deliver the goods.

There are three milk processing dairies at Ranchi, Jamsedpur and Bokaro with installed capacities of 60,000 LPD, 1.00 lakh LPD and 25,000 LPD respectively. These dairies are presently under the management of Bihar state Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Ltd. (COMPFED) with present handling of 45,000 LPD, 67,000 LPD and 40,000 LPD respectively. Initially, these dairies were established by the state Government and were further strengthened by the funds received under "Operation Flood (OF)" Programme with a view to selling the surplus milk of northen part of undivided Bihar (now Bihar). A cattle feed plant was also set up from out of the state government funds at Ranchi, which is also being managed presently by the COMFED with a production of about 26 tons per day against the installed capacity of 100 tons per day. Presently out of the total, about 6000-7000 LPD of milk is being produced from Ranchi districts of this state and rest about 1.46 Lakh LPD of milk is being purchased by these dairy projects from Bihar and other State for which about Rs. 50 crores is being paid every year