This document summarizes research and development efforts related to improving the smallholder dairy value chain in India. It outlines key outputs such as methods for identifying opportunities to benefit smallholders through value chain upgrading. It also lists partners involved from public, private, and civil society organizations, with a focus on scaling approaches through innovation platforms. Milestones include identifying crop cultivars with superior residue quality and establishing feed and nutrition training modules. The overall goal is strengthening links between value chain actors to improve smallholder productivity, market access, and capacity development in the Indian dairy sector.

1. 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