On Saturday, the groups of small dairy farmers inside Dhaka North City Corporation received dairy equipment from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
According to a news release from the FAO today, the goal of this program is to increase their capacity for processing dairy products and guarantee that customers in low-income urban areas have access to safe and nourishing dairy products.
The distribution is part of the joint the project called “Food security for households most affected by the COVID-19 crisis in at-risk low-income urban areas”. It is implemented by FAO, WFP, UNICEF and UNFPA, in collaboration with the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; with financial support from the Embassy of the Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project aims to support the peri-urban smallholder farmers to ensure food security and nutrition. As part of the project FAO is distributing dairy equipment like milking machines, milk cooling machine, sealer machine, generator, cream separator, weighing scales, lactometers, grass choppers, plastic milk cans and plastic crates to 10 farmer groups for 189 dairy farmers to use. The distribution took place in Dhelna Eidgah Field, Purbachol; Tafalia Playground, Sector: 17, Uttara, and Baother Momesa Begum High School, Baother, Kachkura, Uttorkhan.
Customers in low-income metropolitan areas will gain a great deal from the provision of these necessary dairy equipment to farmer groups, as it will guarantee a more dependable and easily accessible supply of healthy and safe dairy products. Consumers will consistently have access to fresh, premium dairy products as a result of the increased productivity and caliber of dairy production.
Additionally, the equipment offered will support product uniformity and safety, giving customers confidence in the dependability and caliber of the dairy products they buy. These instruments boost local customers’ nutritional status and farmers’ livelihoods by increasing the capacity of dairy processing overall, which eventually helps to ensure food security in these vulnerable areas.
