Dairy Value Chain Operation and Dairy Producers: Its Impact and Limitations in an Emerging Economy

Abstract

Dairy value chain resilience is significant for food security and socioeconomic sustenance. Core value chain process series: milk production, milk collection, milk processing and sales and distribution duly facilitated by support activities decide the outcome of this value chain. It has become an opportunity to provide self-employment, empowerment of women and economic help to scores of poor milk producers in an emerging economy such as India. On one hand, the dairy value chain can offset the land and seasonal limitation of agriculture and on the other hand, it can shrug off the constraints gradually through economies of scale and enable market access to provide more traction for this dairy sector. Overseeing the value chain with the Three P’s dimensional (people, planet and profit) outlook, milk producer organizations can address the sector pitfalls and concern more comprehensively with the help of systematic production, services, risk assessment and periodical core stakeholders’ review. © CAB International 2022.