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Punjab Smallholder Dairy Development Project

Population growth is high in this area and pressure on the land is intense. The project targeted livestock owners with small herds, small-scale farmers and landless people. The overall objective of the project was to improve smallholder livestock and milk production and marketing, to boost incomes and the food supply for rural poor people. Specifically, it aimed to:

  • improve animal health and nutrition
  • create marketing networks to sell surplus milk
  • establish farmers’ groups to identify constraints and opportunities for development

Through improved fodder production and animal disease control, access to credit, upgrading of roads, better understanding of markets and investment in milk collection facilities, activities resulted in an increase of about 11 per cent in milk production per cow and an increase in the number of cattle.

Source: IFAD

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Contact information
Mr Ya Tian
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592062
Fax: +39 0654593062
y.tian@ifad.org
Facts and figures

Total cost: US$22.6 million

IFAD loan: US$16.2 million

Duration: 1991-1997

Geographical area: the Gujranwala division of Punjab province

Directly benefiting: 27,000 households

Cofinancing: United Nations Development Programme (US$1.6 million)

Status: closed