FAO distributes dairy equipment to small dairy farmers in DNCC

City Desk :
The Food and Agriculture Organiza-tion of the United Nations (FAO) distributed dairy equipment to the small dairy farmers groups inside Dhaka North City Corporation on Saturday.
This initiative aims to improve their dairy processing capacity and ensure consumers in low-income urban areas to have access to safe and nutritious dairy products, reports media.
The distribution is part of the joint project called “Food security for households most affected by the Covid-19 crisis in at-risk low-income urban areas”.
It is implemented by FAO, WFP, Unicef and UNFPA, in collaboration with the Bangladesh government; with financial support from the Embassy of Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The project aims to support the peri-urban smallholder farmers to ensure food security and nutrition.
As part of the project FAO is distributing dairy equipment like milking machines, milk cooling machine, sealer machine, generator, cream separator, weighing scales, lactometers, grass choppers, plastic milk cans and plastic crates to 10 farmer groups for 189 dairy farmers to use.