Donor: United States Agency for International Development, BP and Co-Ventures

Duration: October’ 2009- September’ 2012

Target areas: Yevlakh, Samukh, Goranboy, Goygol, Shamkir, Kurdamir and Ujar regons

Project goal: Expand dairy production of small/medium sized farmers and promote regional collection center linkages to commercial processors for the sustainable development of the existing private dairy farming households and small farmers.

Project objectives:

  1. Increase raw milk production and sales from small/medium farms to collection centers and processors;
  2. Strengthen linkages between producers and commercial milk collection facilities;
  3. Integrate producers with support services and establish associations to improve sectoral cohesion.

Project's achievements:

  1. Raw milk supplied to targeted collections points and processors increased by 20%;
  2. Decreasing of bacteria by 20% at collection points resulted in processors receiving better quality milk;
  3. Number of farmers receiving credit increased by 20%;
  4. Market knowledge among farmers in target areas increased by 30%;
  5. 2 official official dairy farmer associations created in target regions;