Danida Green Business Partnership under the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs finances the project under the title; “Green Dairy Partnership in Bangladesh – creating a sustainable and productive dairy value chain model in Southwest Bangladesh.” The kick-off event for the €3.4 million project was held in Dhaka last week.

The project aims for a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time a 30% increase in income for 10,000 farming households with a potential scaling to 50,000.

In addition, this 5-year project has an ambition to ensure that 80% of the targeted dairy farmers are women. The project will then optimize milk collection and processing in south-west Bangladesh and introduce more sustainably produced dairy products to the market.

Collaborators include Arla Foods, PRAN Dairy, Solidaridad Network Asia, IDRN-Bangladesh Agricultural University, SEGES Innovation and the Danish Agriculture and Food Council.

The project model, which will help Bangladeshi farmers to become more climate efficient, is based, among other things, on Arla’s “Big 5” tools: feed utilization, feed balance, animal robustness, handling of fertilizers and efficient use of land.

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