Motibhai Chaudhary was a Gandhian social activist, politician, and dairy reformer who built the cooperative livestock and dairy processing framework in the arid Banaskantha district of North Gujarat, creating Dudhsagar Dairy.
- July 3, 1923 – October 31, 2005
- Graduate in Rural Studies and Education; deeply influenced by Gandhian basic education (Nai Talim).
- Place of Origin: Born in Manikpura, Mehsana district, Gujarat.
- Founder Chairman of Mehsana District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd. (Dudhsagar Dairy)
- Board Member of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF)
- Founder of Sagar Dairy processing plants
- Minister in the Government of Gujarat
- Dudhsagar Dairy Complex: Built one of Northern India's largest dairy cooperatives, converting dryland cattle rearing into an industrial milk processing sector for smallholder pastoralists in Mehsana and Banaskantha.
- Inter-State Milk Supply Chains: Linked Gujarat's surplus milk production to urban markets in Delhi and National Capital Region via refrigerated rail-tanker lines under the Amul/GCMMF umbrella.
- Speeches and operational essays on animal husbandry, fodder cooperatives, and rural self-help institutions.
- Sahakarita Ratna: Conferred by national dairy and cooperative federations for transforming the North Gujarat rural economy.