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Dairy
Development
This AT India’s project’s goal is to develop a BDS (Business
Development Services) market for the dairy subsector initially
in two watersheds, The Mandakini Watershed and the Pindar
Watershed. These will provide sustainable access to services
through private sector providers. The objectives of the program
are as follows:
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Transform
subsistence dairy activities into microdairies with commercial
objectives’
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Organize
microproducer network(s) that can generate and capture economies
of scale in BDS service delivery; these Networks will be
organized as Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies (MACS) that
will allow them to operate in a business like way in providing a
variety of financial services to its members. Along with BDS,
these services include other financial products of savings,
credit, and insurance.
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Demonstrate
improved productivity through improved breeding and feed
technologies; these will be provided by private sector suppliers
by end of project;
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Successful linkage
of BDS clientele with microfinance services, including credit,
savings and asset insurance;
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Successful linkage
of BDS providers with financial services needed for their
sustainability; (small enterprise development);
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Phasing out of all
subsidized support to services by the end of the project;
The project targets 4000 subsistence dairy farmers, mostly women
along with a handful of small-scale milk collection businesses
over a 3 year period. Subsistence dairy farmers participating in
the project are expected to increase their incomes by 13 percent
to- 24 percent on an annual basis. This project began operation
in July 2003.
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