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An overview of the Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain project in Bangladesh, delivered at the Market Engagement and Learning Event, September 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Project overview
Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project
Market Engagement Learning Event, September, 20121
PSO- 2
Project Manag
erGender
& Trainin
g
Team Leader
Project Officer- 6
Field Facilitators-30
PO-AI- 2 Project Officer (FL)
Field Facilitator
s(6)
Technical Coordinator
M&E
TO (M&E)
M&E support officer
Manager Finance
Administrative
Officer
Manager DFT
PDO-Livestock
Project Manager-2
Field Facilitators
(AI)- 2
ManagerAccess to Inputs
Manager-Marketing
& Communica
tion
Organogram
2
Geography
3
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Target Dairying Households
• Hamida Begum is married, has three children, works as a day laborer and tends her family’s two cows
• Average Household:
– Very poor
– Functionally landless
– $25 monthly income
– 1-3 cows
• Over 80% of SDVC farmers are women
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Context and Challenges
• Part of a large agro economy/ agro residue based
• Smallholder farmers account for majority of national
production, but rely on subsistence methods
• 30% of national milk demand met by imported powdered
milk
• Limited access to productivity enhancing inputs and
markets
• Collectors and collection systems reduce trust and milk
quality
• Gender norms
• Lack of a supportive policy environment
Theory of Change, Value Chain Enhancement
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Bangladesh Dairy Value Chain
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Producer groups
– 36,400 (82% women) farmers into 1280 groups– 3425 farmer leaders (71% women)– >80 % group graduated as A category
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Farmer Production and IncomeAverage Households
• More than 50 percent increase in average household-level milk production
• 97 percent increase in milk sales income for participating farmers.
• In many cases, increase in milk productivity at household-level is actually as high as 65 percent and increase in income as high as 140 percent - which demonstrates what is possible given the right conditions
• 46 percent increase in household-level milk consumption.
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HH Profit-Loss Statement(Sep’2011)
PL Indicators Baseline (Aug'2008)
Latest (Aug'2011) % Change
HH Income per Annum $109 $144 32%HH Expenditure per Annum $71 $76 7%
HH Net Income per annum $38 $67 76%
Income =Milk sales + Calf + Cow-dung
Expenditure =Feed + Treatment+ De-worming + Vaccination
Expenditure is calculated based on In-milk cow population
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Bangladesh Dairy Value Chain
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Actors and Service Providers
Access to inputs
– 150 shops (42 women) reaching 30,000 farmers. Consistent sales growth of up to 10 percent month-on-month for at least 48 Dairy Input Shops.
– 201 LHWs doubled their income (21 percent women)– 56 AI worker trained and linked (5 women)
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Branded Dairy input shop outlet
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Bangladesh Dairy Value Chain
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Value Chain Transaction Transparency
Challenges– Lack of transparency
across the dairy sector in formal sector purchasing practices
– Collectors and collection practices
– Disincentive for quality milk production
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Impact on Milk Supply Chain
• 90% of the participating farmers are receiving 20 percent higher prices
• 40 % increase in milk collection for 75 percent of the collectors
• Significant improvement in milk quality for processors
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On-the-ground accomplishments in:
1. Established high-performance producer groups;
2. Trained and established commercially viable Livestock Health Workers (LHW)s and Artificial Insemination (AI) Technicians
3. Establishing an innovative network of rural dairy input supply shops through a branded micro-franchise network
4. Introduced digital milk fat-testing (DFT) capabilities at community collection points and chilling plants while influencing fundamental practices how milk is bought in the community collection points and chilling plants
5. Simultaneous increase in productivity and household consumption of milk
Summary
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Thank You
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