Focus of the value chain
Entry Points
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India smallholder dairy value chain development
Research for development efforts / ProjectsOutputs
• Methods for identifying and implementing pro-poor upgrading
opportunities in animal-source value chains
• R&D alliances created to promote pro-poor innovation in dairy
value chains
• Integrated pro-poor, gender-sensitive
intervention strategies and innovation support approaches
formulated and piloted
• Communication for development platforms established
including value chain stakeholders from
public, private and civil-society domains with an emphasis on
up-scaling validated methods and approaches
Milestones
Partners
• MilkIT: Innovation platforms for improving dairy feeding
and marketing
• CSISA2: ILRI component on feeding and livestock
integration in cereal systems
• MaizeLive: CIMMYT-led IFAD project on maize livestock
systems in Jharkhand and Nepal
• GETDairy /OPEC
• OPEC dairy intensification and milk marketing
• Access to markets by the marginalised
• Productivity of smallholders
• Supply of inputs and services
• Capacity development of farmers
• Market access
• Strengthen links between value chain actors
• Improve capacity of milk traders
• Feeding
• Improve crop residues and food-feed crops
• Promote underutilised resources
• Farmer trials and training
• Business development for feed processing and supply
• Animal health
• Foot and Mouth disease
• Animal breeding
• Sustainable cross-breeding
• Superior indigenous breeds
• CGIAR
• IRRI, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, CIAT, IFPRI
• NGO
• FORWARD (Nepal), CHIRAG (India), INHERE (India)
• Dairies
• Dodla , Mulkanoor, Omfed, MilkMantra,
• Input supply
• Syngenta, feed processors and traders
• Government research
• ICAR institutes (India), BLRI (Bangladesh)
• State universities
• Uttarakhand, Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh (India)
• Cultivars with superior residue quality identified
• Sorghum, maize, rice, groundnut, wheat
• Assessments
• Rapid value chain assessments in focus sites
• Feed assessments in project and focus sites
• Innovation platforms established
• Dairy value chain – dairy feeding
• Feed & nutrition training modules established
• Material consolidated
• Trial system integrated