About SEP

 

Bangladesh is striving to be self-sufficient in case of milk production. The domestic production is now meeting two-thirds of the total demand. There are about 1.5 million buffalo in this country which are mostly distributed in the coastal areas. Unfortunately the contribution this species in overall milk production of the country is only 3%. This is because; buffalo rearing is environmentally stressed and vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters. So, the project aims to support microenterprises through environment friendly investments in buffalo rearing and safe dairy processing to promote environmentally sustainable technologies and practices.

The sustainability of the sector will be ensured through initiatives like eco-friendly buffalo house development, familiarize environmental and hygiene practices, diversified safe quality dairy item productions with measures to extensive online and offline marketing will attribute to the better income generation by dairy micro-entrepreneurs. To tap into this potential, SSUS is running the sub-project ‘Promotion of Ecological Buffalo Rearing Practices in Noakhali’ under World Bank funded project SEP.

 

Objectives

• Promote environment friendly buffalo rearing by the targeted MEs
• Improved adoption of buffalo waste management practices by the MEs
• Promote animal welfare by improved animal housing and awareness raising
• Strengthening safe buffalo product processing, preservation and marketing (dairy and meat) by the MEs

Coverage

 

• The sub-project will be implemented in the following geographical area:

  Districts: Naokhali

  Upzilla: Subarnachar, Hatiya, Companiganj and Kabirhat.

  Union: 9 Unions

   

• Revenue generating common service activities
• Strengthening Livestock Service Provider (LSP, Para vet, milk collector etc.)
• Promotion of Commercial Vermi-compost entrepreneur
• Bio gas plant establishment
• Model entrepreneur development for cross breed buffalo production
• Efficient dairy processing equipment (cream separator machine, ghee making, cheese making etc.)
• Buffalo dairy brand Shop development
• High Yielding Fodder Production and fodder processing ME development

 

 

 

 

High yielding fodder production	Vermicompost production
Cross breed Murrah buffalo	Bio gas plant
Cream separator machine	Dairy brand shop

1. Non-revenues generating physical activities

• Killa construction for buffalo herds at char
• Demonstration of eco-friendly buffalo housing development
• Market development for buffalo (Ramp, weighing scale and hygiene toilet, fodder and milk corner)  
• Equipment to ensure safe milk production (Milk can, pH meter, lactometer, CMT kit and reagent)  
   

Eco-friendly buffalo housing	Milk can distribution to MEs

 

 

1. Initiatives to Increase Eco Labeling and Access to Premium Markets

• Consultant for dairy product diversification (varieties of cheese, ghee, ice cream etc.)
• Training on Environmental Certification
• Training on Business Certification
• Training on Farm registration
• Buffalo milk and milk product Quality testing (BSTI and others)
• Website/ app development and E-Marketing etc.
• Technology transfer (Ecological farming, IOT etc.)
• Branding of buffalo dairy product

 

Packaging of curd for branding	Milk sample collection for testing

 

 

1. Capacity Development of PO
    

• Capacity Building of the POs (PMU & Training Cost)
• Monitoring & Evaluation (Baseline Survey, Final evaluation, Internal Audit & External Audit etc.)
• Training, Meeting, Seminar & Workshop
  
  

 

1. Capacity Development of MEs

• Project inception workshop
• Basic training on Eco-friendly Buffalo Rearing
• Capacity building training on LSP (Local service Provider)
• Training on Safe Dairy processing and Selling
• Training on Livestock Waste Management, Feed and Fodder processing
• Organize Livestock/ Environment Fair
• Organize Vaccination and deworming campaign at cluster level
• Learning visit in better practice (environment/enterprise) cluster
• Organize Vaccination and deworming campaign at cluster level
   

Basic training on buffalo rearing	Training on safe dairy processing and selling