Bangladesh, April 26 -- Deliberations on dairy farm at a roundtable arranged by a Bangla contemporary in the city on Tuesday last have centred around the various problems facing dairy farmers. Of the 81,000 dairy farms, more than 50,000 have been set up by entrepreneurs with a bachelor degree. This should have started a quiet revolution on the milk front. But unfortunately it has not happened.
What has escaped notice is that production of milk has gone up courtesy of such farms under supervision of an educated breed of dairy farmers but theirs is an isolated initiative each. Their main focus is on production, not on marketing. The farmers have to depend on packaging companies which collect milk from them from designated spots. It is the pa...