Scientific Program

Abstract:

In the context of Bangladesh milk production structure is running on still to-date following the traditional/informal method and rest non-traditional/formal method. But fortunately, nowadays the traditional method is improving to the modern formal domain in mammoth motion. The lion share of milk is producing from small scale milk producing farmers around the country. It is said that the 15 branded milk processors in Bangladesh is producing and handling about 10% of total milk production in structural based, such as the only pioneering cooperative milk processors’ Milk Vita and rest of others branded milk processors. The 8FYP plan sets a target to expand the production of milk from 9.92 million metric ton in 2018-19 to 16.37 million metric ton in 2024-25. These targets will be achieved through enhancing productivity by using modern biological techniques, adopting appropriate disease diagnosis and prevention and by addressing climate smart livestock interventions for safeguarding nutritional food security. There remains an acute shortage of milk, though the gap between demand and production is reducing. However, the growth in demand for milk is growing very slowly. In the 2021-22 fiscal year, the production of fresh milk in Bangladesh was 13.07 million MT and demand 15.66 million MT. For mitigating the desired nutritional status in Bangladesh a World Bank Funded (USD:500 million) mega dairy project is running on where root based smallholders milk production, collection, processing, transportation and above all marketing are addressed through Dairy Hub/VMCC Model nation widely. In Dairy HUB/VMCC model the root based local milk producers’ will supply their farm produced milk to the VMCC where raw milk after collection will be chilled and then delivered to the Dairy HUB. In the Dairy HUB milk delivered from VMCC finally will be processed for producing different types of milk and milk products, may be pasteurized packet milk, ghee, butter, cheese, yogurt, laban, different types of sweetmeats, etc.

Key words: Nutrition, Dairy HUB/VMCC, Smallholder milk producer, Milk Vita

Biography:

Mohd. Abul Kalam Azad compelled his MS in Dairy Science Degree & Bachelor of Science in Animal Husbandry (Honours)from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Also completed MBA in Marketing & Int’l. Business from International Islamic University Chittogong, Bangladesh. Mr. Azad do have in-depth and root based hands on experiences about 3 decades in the field of Livestock sector in Bangladesh as well abroad focusing on viz: dairy , milk and milk products, livestock productivity; livestock value chain; livestock products/bi-products marketing; dairy farmers household nutrition; economic upliftment of livestock rearers ; milk and milk products production, collection, processing and above all marketing as per consumers’ requirement. He served in Milk Vita - the largest cooperative milk processing organization in Bangladesh as well as in NORAD. Presently, servicing in World Bank Funded Mega Dairy (USD:500 MILLION) belongs to Consulting services for establishment of pre-conditions for Bangladesh Integrated Network for Livestock Information (BINLI), Ref: LDDP/S-68A as Livestock/Dairy Expert since 28/02/2024 where the lead organization is A.g.T international, Itatly (Email:info@agtinternational.it) ; Seyfor ,CZ with local partner Sodev Consult International Ltd. (www.sodevconsult.org) . The over all of the assignment is that development of an electronic national identification and registration system including a data base 50,000 animals. Me Participated/participating a lot of national and international dairy/livestock/food/food safety/nutrition based global seminar, symposium, conference, workshops as a speaker/keynote speaker / panel speaker / seminar chair/co-chair as well as national and international training programme. A good number of dairy/livestock based basic research work has been published in different esteemed national and international journals.