Project Interventions
Six activities are designed to address the needs and expectations of diverse stakeholder groups tackling the industry’s most challenging problems. These interventions are expected to drive a positive change for the industry and deliver results which are of national significance in terms of its contribution to the health and prosperity of the country’s citizens.
Activity 1
Livestock Extension Agents and Services Capacity Building
to strengthen the ecosystem of agricultural extension services reaching dairy farmers to increase dairy productivity
Training on best practices for productivity
Improve artificial insemination services
Develop and roll-out mobile extension services
Dairy farming as a business
Activity 2
Develop Input Suppliers
to increase the amount of inputs (including quality animals, fodder, and silage) available for dairy farmers
Assist formalization of breeder programs targeting medium and large scale farms
Develop private input retail operations
Develop fodder and silage enterprises
Activity 3
Leverage Public and/or Private Investment and Financial Services
to increase investment in Sri Lanka’s dairy sector, both through the establishment of an investment fund and by providing assistance to financial institutions to encourage lending in the dairy
sectorDairy investment fund
Increase financial institutions interest to lend to dairy sector
Activity 4
Facilitate Buyer-Seller Relationships
to facilitate relationships between buyers and sellers of inputs in the dairy sector, as well as to develop market linkages for dairy farmers seeking to move from the informal sector to the formal sector
Develop and implement mobile applications to facilitate exchange of inputs
Connect informal producers to formal markets
Activity 5
Milk Quality Standards Training
to improve the quality and safety of milk produced through training of farmers and collection center managers, increase demand for safe milk at the local level, and introduce new market-based incentives for meeting quality standards
Training on best practices in milk quality
Quality and safety campaigns for consumers
Quality based payments for milk producers
Activity 6
Trade Association Capacity Building
to strengthen the nascent trade association by strengthening the organization to become self sustaining and developing the capacities of the stakeholders to be able to address key issues facing the sector
Strengthening All Island Dairy Association
