Experts recommended immediate cash incentives for farmers and urged processing companies to turn their dairy produce into powdered milk to keep the sector afloat. “Dairy farms in the country are in a bad shape,” Shah Imran, president of Bangladesh Dairy Owners Association, told bdnews24.com. Kashem Ali, owner of Marsh Agro in Faridpur’s Boalmari, gave a vivid picture of the current plight of dairy farmers. The country imports powdered milk worth Tk 200 billion a year which forms 40 percent of the total milk demand. Three companies have plants to manufacture powdered milk but they tend to import the item from abroad for more profit, according to industry experts.

Source: bd News24 April 13, 2020 07:41 UTC