Improved Market Access and Smallholder Dairy Farmer Participation for Sustainable Dairy Development.
Lessons Learned Sri Lanka
N.F.C. RANAWEERA
November 2007
Table of contents
LIST OF TABLES...................................................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 1.0 Background......................................................................................................................... 3 Chapter 2.0 Situation Analysis .............................................................................................................. 3 2.1 Production areas ............................................................................................................................. 5 2.1.1 Cattle......................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Location and scale of livestock operations ..................................................................................... 6 2.3 Marketing ......................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.2 Marketing Institutions ............................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Milk Price ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Chapter 3.0 Smallholder Dairy Farmers......................................................................................... 10 Present survey ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 4.0 Key constraints to development .................................................................................... 15 4.1 Constraints to Future Development of the