Verghese Kurien - (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012) known as the Father of the White Revolution in India was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood - the world's largest agricultural dairy development programme, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry and the largest rural employment provider, being a third of all rural income, with benefits of - raising incomes & credit, riddance of debt dependence, nutrition, education, health, gender parity & empowerment, breakdown of caste barriers and grassroots democracy & leadership. It made India the world's largest milk producer from a milk-deficient nation, which doubled milk available per person and increased milk output four-fold, in 30 years

Anil Kalagond - quit his job in a reputed software firm in Bangalore to become a dairy farmer in 2009. Today, Mr. Kalagond is a successful farmer who has adopted integrated farming methods in agriculture. He owns 22 cows, 18 buffaloes and 90 goats, which he bought to set up a goat-rearing centre. He sells 250 litres of milk every day from his farm in Aliabad village to a private ice-cream factory in Bijapur.