These are the 11 recommendations formulated by the participants of the Regional Expert Consultation Meeting on “Strategies to Mitigate Emerging Challenges of Dairy Cooperatives for Strengthening Livelihood and Food Security in South Asia” held on 12-13 April 2021.
- Formulation, enactment, and enforcement of dairy cooperative law to empower farmers in the decision-making process.
- Good governance in the business of dairy cooperatives and management with adequate liquidity.
- Exchange of high-yielding germplasm of indigenous dairy animals especially cows and buffaloes.
- Build capacity of field officials and dairy cooperative farmers with advanced knowledge and skills on-farm management, processing and product diversification, cooperative management, marketing, traceability, etc.
- Exchange of professionals/ experts by easing out norms of work permit / international exchange Programme in the field of dairy cooperatives.
- Promoting milk and milk products of a dairy cooperative under “School Feeding”, “Hospital Milk” and Nursing Home”, “Mid-Day Meal”, other government schemes or programs.
- Facilitation of regional trade for milk and milk products among SAARC group of countries by tariff rationalization, extending margin of preference on applied tariff rate, easing of business.
- Strengthening input services to the primary members of dairy cooperatives including high-yielding dairy animals, quality feeds and fodder seed, mineral mixture, silage, artificial insemination, deworming, vaccination, etc.
- Necessary legislation for minimum processing of milk, milk quality standards, feed, and seed quality, etc.
- Dynamic milk procurement price linked with the cost of feed and disease control measures in addition to milk quality.
- Dedicated corridor (road/ rail/ air/ waterways) for transportation of milk and milk products, dairy machinery, feed and fodder, vaccines, high yielding cows/ buffaloes, progeny tested bull, etc.
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