Flourishing dairy sector

Milk consumption in Bangladesh has doubled in the first decade of the 21st century

According to a yesterday report the dairy sector in Rangpur is positively changing the socioeconomic condition of the rural people while meeting their nutritional demand. The Rangpur Dairy & Food Products Limited, commonly known as RD Milk, a private sector enterprise, has already become a successful venture creating employments for the people in the area. 
But lack of adequate milk processing industries, chilling factories, preservation and marketing facilities are still impeding the desired growth rate of the sector up to its maximum potentials. Our local divisional chambers must address these issues in order to ensure the smooth and fast growth of this prospective industry. Particularly, similar to many other industries, if rural cooperative systems were launched to ensure smooth marketing of huge quantity of good quality milk being produced daily, our rural people  would have become financially sound and economically self-reliant much faster. Nevertheless, such cooperatives must not be restricted within the country’s northern region, but positively be introduced in other parts of the country too. 
Milk consumption in Bangladesh doubled in the first decade of the 21st century despite low per capita levels. The average consumption has been reportedly 44 millilitres of milk per day against the WHO’s (World Health Organisation) recommended 250 millilitres per day. The deficit in average consumption is clearly noticeable while local milk production has increased, but domestic supplies are still lagging, and as a result, Bangladesh is still importing dairy products. We must resort to a long-term strategy for becoming completely self-reliant in the dairy sector. 
The government should also help out in the development and sustenance of a growing dairy industry through research activities and breeding healthier species of cows.  It is obvious that rural small producers of dairy products on their own will never have either financial or technological resources to invest in such projects.
It is expected that the private sector will play a crucial role here, in creating more breeding projects, dairy processing facilities while effectively market all dairy products to all corners of Bangladesh. On that note, a pro-active approach to overcome the existing barriers in our dairy sector can usher in a new era of a vibrant rural economy.

 

Flourishing dairy sector

Milk consumption in Bangladesh has doubled in the first decade of the 21st century

According to a yesterday report the dairy sector in Rangpur is positively changing the socioeconomic condition of the rural people while meeting their nutritional demand. The Rangpur Dairy Food Products Limited, commonly known as RD Milk, a private sector enterprise, has already become a successful venture creating employments for the people in the area. But lack of adequate milk processing industries, chilling factories, preservation and marketing facilities are still impeding the desired growth rate of the sector up to its maximum potentials. Our local divisional chambers must address these issues in order to ensure the smooth and fast growth of this prospective industry. Particularly, similar to many other industries, if rural cooperative systems were launched to ensure smooth marketing of huge quantity of good quality milk being produced daily, our rural people would have become financially sound and economically self-reliant much faster. Nevertheless, such cooperatives must not be restricted within the countrys northern region, but positively be introduced in other parts of thecountry too. Milk consumption in Bangladesh doubled in the first decade of the 21st century despite low per capita levels. The average consumption has been reportedly 44 millilitres of milk per day against the WHOs (World Health Organisation) recommended 250 millilitres per day. The deficit in average consumption is clearly noticeable while local milk production has increased, but domestic supplies are still lagging, and as a result, Bangladesh is still importing dairy products. We must resort to a long-term strategy for becoming completely self-reliant in the dairy sector. The government should also help out in the development and sustenance of a growing dairy industry through research activities and breeding healthier species of cows. It is obvious that rural small producers of dairy products on their own will never have eitherfinancial or technological resources to invest in such projects. It is expected that the private sector will play a crucial role here, in creating more breeding projects, dairy processing facilities while effectively market all dairy products to all corners of Bangladesh. On that note, a pro-active approach to overcome the existing barriers in our dairy sector can usher in a new era of a vibrant rural economy.