The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) distributed dairy equipment to the small dairy farmers groups inside Dhaka North City Corporation yesterday.
This initiative aims to improve their dairy processing capacity and ensure consumers in low-income urban areas to have access to safe and nutritious dairy products.
The distribution is part of the joint the project called “Food security for households most affected by the COVID-19 crisis in at-risk low-income urban areas”.
It is implemented by FAO, WFP, UNICEF and UNFPA, in collaboration with the government of Bangladesh; with financial support from the Embassy of the Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project aims to support the peri-urban smallholder farmers to ensure food security and nutrition.
As part of the project FAO is distributing dairy equipment like milking machines, milk cooling machine, sealer machine, generator, cream separator, weighing scales, lactometers, grass choppers, plastic milk cans and plastic crates to10 farmer groups for 189 dairy farmers to use.
The distribution took place in Dhelna Eidgah Field, Purbachol; Tafalia Playground, Sector: 17, Uttara, and Baother Momesa Begum High School, Baother, Kachkura, Uttorkhan.
