BSS, Rangpur :
The flourishing dairy sector has been changing the socioeconomic condition of the common people and meeting their nutritional demand changing rural economy in Rangpur division.
President of Rangpur Chamber Md Abul Kashem said that the prospective dairy sector was growing fast both in the main land and char areas in recent years producing huge quantity of milk daily in the region.
“But, lack of adequate milk processing industries, chilling factories, preservation and marketing facilities are still hindering the desired growth rate of the sector up to the prevailing potential,” he said.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid said that hundreds of the poor people living both in the main land and char areas had been changing their fortune successfully through animal husbandry.
“The rural economy is flourishing fast with animal husbandry and the common people selling huge milk at comparatively lower price for lack of adequate dairy factories, milk processing or preservation facilities,” he added.
Regional Agriculture Farm Broadcasting Officer Abu Sayem said that proper exploration of the prospective diary sector adopting comprehensive steps, including setting up of milk-processing industries, could usher in a new era in the rural economy.
“If cooperatives system was launched to ensure smooth marketing of the enormous quantity of milk being produced daily, the people living in the rural areas would achieve faster economic development,” he added. The Rangpur Dairy & Food Products Limited, commonly known as RD Milk, a private sector enterprise, at Salaipur under Boldipukur in Mithapukur upazila has already become a successful venture creating huge jobs for rural people to change their fates.
Manager (Factory) of RD Milk Ashraful Alam said that hundreds of cows were distributed so far among the poor of Salaipur, Muradpur and many other villages under a massive plan of distributing thousands of more cows in future.
Many of the beneficiaries have already become owners of the supplied cows to them by paying actual price of the cows through supplying milk to the factory for a certain period when the RD Milk authorities transferred the ownership to them.
“The RD Milk has a comprehensive plan to turn it into one of the biggest milk processing industries of the country through involving over 30,000 people of Rangpur region in near future,” he said.
The factory has been producing huge pasteurised fresh milk, flavoured mango milk, flavoured chocolate milk, flavoured banana milk, butter oil, ghee, candy and other quality products and marketing those throughout the country.
Beneficiaries of RD Milk Amena Begum of village Salaipur said that she took two cows with calves ten years back to become owners of those by delivering milk to the factory.
The flourishing dairy sector has been changing the socioeconomic condition of the common people and meeting their nutritional demand changing rural economy in Rangpur division.
President of Rangpur Chamber Md Abul Kashem said that the prospective dairy sector was growing fast both in the main land and char areas in recent years producing huge quantity of milk daily in the region.
“But, lack of adequate milk processing industries, chilling factories, preservation and marketing facilities are still hindering the desired growth rate of the sector up to the prevailing potential,” he said.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid said that hundreds of the poor people living both in the main land and char areas had been changing their fortune successfully through animal husbandry.
“The rural economy is flourishing fast with animal husbandry and the common people selling huge milk at comparatively lower price for lack of adequate dairy factories, milk processing or preservation facilities,” he added.
Regional Agriculture Farm Broadcasting Officer Abu Sayem said that proper exploration of the prospective diary sector adopting comprehensive steps, including setting up of milk-processing industries, could usher in a new era in the rural economy.
“If cooperatives system was launched to ensure smooth marketing of the enormous quantity of milk being produced daily, the people living in the rural areas would achieve faster economic development,” he added. The Rangpur Dairy & Food Products Limited, commonly known as RD Milk, a private sector enterprise, at Salaipur under Boldipukur in Mithapukur upazila has already become a successful venture creating huge jobs for rural people to change their fates.
Manager (Factory) of RD Milk Ashraful Alam said that hundreds of cows were distributed so far among the poor of Salaipur, Muradpur and many other villages under a massive plan of distributing thousands of more cows in future.
Many of the beneficiaries have already become owners of the supplied cows to them by paying actual price of the cows through supplying milk to the factory for a certain period when the RD Milk authorities transferred the ownership to them.
“The RD Milk has a comprehensive plan to turn it into one of the biggest milk processing industries of the country through involving over 30,000 people of Rangpur region in near future,” he said.
The factory has been producing huge pasteurised fresh milk, flavoured mango milk, flavoured chocolate milk, flavoured banana milk, butter oil, ghee, candy and other quality products and marketing those throughout the country.
Beneficiaries of RD Milk Amena Begum of village Salaipur said that she took two cows with calves ten years back to become owners of those by delivering milk to the factory.
