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Ultimate benefits from market linkages
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Ultimate benefits to smallholder farmers through improved market linkage

Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/01/2019 - 13:11
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Smallholder dairy farmers are struggling to get better returns from the sale of beef animals. They sell their animals in case of need due to which, they are often financially exploited by the local middlemen and butchers. The purpose of this activity was to find potential opportunities for smallholder farmers and link them with improved beef markets using the value chain approach.

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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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