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        Amul MD RS Sodhi Questions and Answers Round!  Q : Were you prepared for a lockdown ? Ans: The lockdown didn't come all of a sudden. It was expected. We knew what was happening in China. In fact, we started preparing almost 10 days before the lockdown. We were in a critical business. Besides being an essential product, milk is also very dependable source of livelihood for over 100 million people. They are marginal farmers and poor women.  Q : What was this pandemic taught you ?  Ans: The food is the most important thing. There are different advantages of being a multi-product, multi-location, multi-channel company. With 84 plants, when things were difficult in Mumbai where our 4-5 plants got affected, other plants worked overtime. Being a multi-product company, while ice-cream as a product was almost finished, paneer consumption went up.  Q : How has Amul thrived amid so much competition, including from MNCs ? Ans: We are India's largest...