MilkIT
Advisory Council Meeting
Dehradun 02/12/13
Activity update
Thanammal Ravichandran, Nils Teufel
& team
MilkIT objectives
• Institutional strengthening: To strengthen use of
value chain and innovation approaches among dairy
stakeholders to improve market integration and
efficiency.
• Productivity enhancement: To develop options for
improved feeding strategies leading to yield
enhancement with potential income benefits.
• Knowledge sharing: To strengthen knowledge
sharing mechanisms on value chain and feed
development strategies at local, regional and
international levels
Meeting objectives
• Activities last 6 months
• Group discussion
– How can we improve the participation of
stakeholders/institutions in innovation platforms/
feed level interventions
– What is the sustainability of the innovation
platform?
– How can we scale out the success of the IP
platforms and their innovations
Update so far……
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Village census
Site selection- 2 clusters/district
Household census
Constraint analysis
Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST)
IP (Innovation platform) platform meetings
Marketing and feed interventions
IP approach
state dairy co-operative
(Aanchal)
national NGO (BAIF, breed
improvement)
IFAD staff
farmers
Innovation platform DVC
Partner NGOs
block & district
administration
veterinary officer
Missing:
private sector!
IP meetings
• 1 dairy value chain IP and 2 feed IP/ district
• Regular meetings every 3 months at cluster
level
• Follow-up meetings in villages
• Implementation of interventions developed
and agreed at IP meetings (action plan)
• New feed IP established (Joshigaon) after
Chhona decided not to continue
Marketing interventions - Sult
• Successes
– Linkage with AANCHAL
– One collection point in Baseri which covers 3 villages (Baseri, Sutholi
and Musoli) since Feb
– Two collection points started this month in Besarbagarh (3 villages)
and Gehnaheet (2 villages)
– Breed improvement- 2 CB animals through AH department, Aanchalproposal sent for 2 mini-dairy
– Concentrate feed supply by Aanchal
– Medicines for the members
• Limitations/constraints
– Lack of monitoring for secretary- farmers decreased giving milk in
Baseri. Through IP meeting the issue was solved: training of all farmers
how to check fat and lacto meter
– This is practiced in new areas- creating awareness- not one person
shop-its producer co-operative
Marketing interventions Bageshwar
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Jeganath co-operative active since Feb 2013
Own sales point in Bageshwar
11 villages, 102 farmers, 90-100 litres of milk/day
>INR 50,000 profit to co-operative after operational cost
Profit distributed only to suppliers
Consumers prefer buffalo milk
Demand also for milk products - cow milk ghee
Cream separator purchased by co-operative to support processing
• Input/support
– 14 CB cow introduced through NABARD/AH support for innovative
farmers
– Feed support from AANCHAL
– Veterinary support from AH/ KVK
Feed interventions - 1
• Dual-purpose cereals
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wheat/ barley /maize /oat /finger millet
From VPKAS technical support
For fodder in winter/ more fodder and grain
Easy acceptance/agreement
• Napier grass
– Source VPKAS, AH dept for Sult
– NABARD support for van panchayat developmentNapier plantation (5 tons) - Bageshwar
• Setaria grass
– Seed source from Palampur university
– Not germinated- seed viability? More rain?
Feed interventions - 2
• Feed trough/feed drums
– For prevention of fodder wastage- recently started
– NABARD support in Bageshwar
• Chaff cutter
– Failure of typical manual chaff cutter- labour requirement
– Small knife developed - acceptance is good
– Will try the chaff cutter from Gujarat
• Hay stacking/ Silage
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Started in Saing and Garikhet village- early adopters
Treatment with molasses and urea
Will try for 3-4/ farmers for 10-15 vill.- preference of farmers
Analysis of grass after treatment
Napier
Feed trough
Silage
Demo silage
Silage pack
Knowledge sharing
• Staff training
– Pant Nagar veterinary college (3 days)
– Staff from both partner organisations trained
– Feed, breed and disease management and economic importance of
dairy farming
• Exposure visit
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Gujarat, AMUL
Mehsana and Kaira dairy plant
Feed plant and breeding station
Exposure to various chaff cutters, feed management
Visit to villages
• Farmers’ exposure visit
– Donoiri dairy co-operative (Aanchal) – success in feed production
– Pant Nagar, kishan mela (farmers’ fair)
Discussion 1
• Jyotsena Sitling:
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Chopping is difficult when tree leaves and branches are fed
Napier requires proper replanting every 3y
Fodder crops only successful where off-farm income
Who looks into animal health and breeding issues?
CAMPA is interested to support grass-land improvement on van
panchayat land
• DV Singh:
– Timing is crucial in AI (buff, xbred); farmers have to be trained to
expect examination before insemination
– Form of feed offered is important (simple chaff cutter)
– Timing of feeding is important (no feeding during rumination)
Discussion 2
• Kailash Bhatt:
– Because Ajeeveeka had problems running dairy
shop they now have agreement with private
trader collecting milk from federations. Price is
good, trader has invested in vehicle, other
products also traded (e.g. vegetables)
• Rajeev Singhal:
– What will make private traders join IPs? What are
effective incentives?
Discussion 3
• Kamlesh Lururani:
– Recently visited the new co-operative in Bageshwar
– Most important for sustainability are
• Payment transparency (bank accounts preferable)
• Effective and efficient governance structures
• Transparency in profit sharing
• CD Tyagi:
– Loose milk marketing is efficient and accepted by
consumers
– But laws prohibit it for formal milk marketing
– Food safety hazards increased when not chilled
– Mangers are urgently required but have to be appropriate
Discussion 4
• Thanammal Ravichandran:
– Various institutions have promoted mangers
(NABARD)
– MilkIT has supported mangers with INR 500-1000 to
test new models (bricks, aluminium drums, plastic
drums?) – will distribute documentation and pictures
• Sonali Bisht:
– Food safety laws are changing and becoming more
stringent; need to check how they affect dairy
development innovations initiated by IPs
– Especially, how is loose milk marketing affected?
Group discussion
• 1: How can we create ownership of innovation
platforms to make them more sustainable?
• 2: How can we make dairy innovation
platforms more attractive to milk buyers?
• 3: What is the potential of private grasslands
for increasing fodder supply and reducing
labour requirements and which are most
promising technologies for improvement?
Group 1
• Kamlesh Gururani, Rajeev Singhal, DV Singh
Group discussion results 1a
1. Next IP meeting to be hosted by co-operative
(in Bageshwar)
2. Other projects (ILSP, Himmothan) should support
co-operative becoming owner of IP
3. In the remaining year of MilkIT this transfer of
ownership should have priority
4. Cooperative Department could be invited to support
capacity strengthening
5. Disseminate collected documents and experiences to
local and state departments and institutions
6. Identify opportunities to continue with electronic
cloud-based documentation (GoogleDrive)
Group discussion results 1b
• From plenary
– How to ensure that owning institution does not
only have self-interest (e.g. producers)?
– Try to replicate success of ATMA in cropping also
in dairy, establish an appropriate legal framework
(cooperatives/producer organisations)
– Learn from successful models, but ensure that
they are appropriate. What to adapt from the
Anand model?
Group 2
• CD Tyagi, Kailash Bhatt, GC Barthurah, Shankar
Group discussion results 2a
1. Quantity and quality has to meet buyers expectations
2. More facilities for breeding & health management
3. Improved marketing facilities (chilling, advertising,
payment systems, collection timings, packaging,
timely availability of milk to consumers)
4. Stable and efficient institutional set-up (village
groups, federations; proper & transparent quality
control)
5. Better incentives to buyers
Group discussion results 2b
• From plenary
– Private traders would be attracted if they would
see future benefit
– They would have to see opportunities for
engaging in increased milk trade themselves (How
to learn from Almora example?)
Group 3
• Sonali Bisht, DS Rawat, Kuldeep Thapliyal
Group discussion results 3a
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Under-utilised private land in villages (migration, labour shortages, other
income sources). How to use this land for livestock purposes?
Cultivable waste-land could be leased to dairy groups
Silvi-pastural systems could be tried on private lands (grasses and trees;
requires less labour)
Improved grass species would increase production
Silage would help with maintaining nutritive quality and could also be
sold
Water harvesting structures could help with productivity of grass-lands
Planting of Napier on bunds also has disadvantages through competition
with crops; planting on terrace risers could be more efficient
Planting of fodder trees along water channels in waste-lands improve
efficiency
Group discussion results 3b
From plenary
• Control of grazing / fencing
• Is white clover an option? Is it persistent?
• Fertilisation (urea from helicopter?)
• Introduce improved fodder from grass-land in
enterprise mode
• Rather oats/barley that wheat for dualpurpose
Closing remarks
• The implementation of research for
development is promising
• The learning from existing examples but also
the own initiative by local organisations is a
good way forward.
• Project implementation should involve various
stakeholders and institutions to be successful
and sustainable.
Participants
Name
Institution
E-mail
Mobile Phone
Barthurah, GC
ULDB, Dehradun
GirishBarthurah28@gmail.com
+91 9411136153
Bhatt, Kailash
IFAD – ILSP, Almora
kailashbhatt1@rediffmail.com
+91 9411749703
Bisht, Sonali
INHERE, Masi/Delhi
sonalibisht@yahoo.co.in
+91 9650525806
Gururami, Kamlesh
ILSP, Dehradun
kg0011@rediffmail.com
+91 9412040307
Ravichandran, Thanammal
ILRI, Almora
t.ravichandran@cgiar.org
+91 8475032742
Rawat, DS
GB Pant Inst. of Himalayan Env.
and Dev., Almora
dsrawat@gbpihed.nic.in
+91 9412930889
Singh, D V
GBPUAT, Pantnagar
singh_dvrat@rediffmail.com
+91 9411159980
Singhal, Rajeev Kumar
ILSP – IFAD, Dehradun
rajeev.singhal@gmail.com
+91 9634222849
Sitling, Jostna
CAMPA, Dehradun
jsitling@yahoo.com
+91 9412992891
Subedi, Shankar
ILRI, MSc student, Almora/Nairobi
s.subedi@cgiar.org
Teufel, Nils
ILRI, Nairobi
n.teufel@cgiar.org
+254 705832054
Thapliyal, Kuldeep
CHIRAG, Simayal
kuldeep@chirag.org
+91 9411303962
Tyagi, Chandra Dutt
Aanchal & Mahila Dairy Coop,
Almora
chandradutttyagi@gmail.com
+91 9412092196