engro foods launches first dairy hub
November 25, 2009
Business Recorder - Engro Foods Limited, in collaboration with Tetra Pak Pakistan, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company, on Tuesday launched Pakistan’s first Dairy Hub which is located at Kassowal, in District Sahiwal. The basic objective of this pioneering initiative is to help the farmers in improving productivity and efficiency.
Dairy Hub – a Community Dairy Development Programme (CDDP) – is a one-herd concept that organises and develops smallholder farmers’ milk production. Dairy hub is one viable solution to meet the growing demands of the dairy industry besides providing agri-services and trainings and help farmers by educating them on animals feeding and diseases.
This would lead to improved quality and quantity of raw milk, improved market access, an efficient value chain, enhanced smallholder competitiveness, improved livelihoods in subsistence agriculture, increased employment in agriculture and enhanced skills of farmers. The Dairy Hub CDDP has enlisted the support of several key players in the dairy industry besides the Livestock and Dairy Development Board (LDDB).
