BRAC Dairy and Food Project
A large number of our microfinance clients were investing in cattle, and in doing so were being exposed to risk owing to poor breeding, limited veterinary services, shortages in cow feed and lack of market access. Some of these challenges were addressed through social enterprises such as BRAC artificial insemination and BRAC Feed Mills. Still, the perishable nature of dairy products meant it remained difficult for rural dairy farmers to reach the large urban markets and the demand for milk in a single village was not enough to generate a sustainable profit. Dairy farmers also did not have access to proper refrigeration technologies to store the unsold milk. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, noticed this problem and proposed establishing a milk processing plant to collect milk from local farmers for a fair price. As a result, BRAC initiated BRAC dairy & food project (BDFP) in 1998 to serve as a market conduit for dairy farmers throughout rural Bangladesh.
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