mele: overview

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

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Geography

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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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