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Breaking the glass ceiling-strengthening women in dairy farming to improve livelihoods
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Breaking the glass ceiling: strengthening women in dairy farming to improve livelihoods

Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/01/2019 - 13:05
Field Milk Test Sindh

Smallholder dairy farmers are facing a number of challenges when rearing animals for milk, often struggling to make any profit in Pakistan. These challenges are led by lack of information about improved farming practices particularly to the women. Women have their pronounced participation in smallholder livestock farming.

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There are nearly 50 million cattle and 40 million buffalo in Pakistan, mostly in very small herds cared for by smallholder families. ACIAR research has focused on developing well-targeted 'whole family' dairy extension approaches. Current work seeks to scale out these learnings, while also exploring avenues for farmers to engage with beef value chains as well as dairy.

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