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=Interview with partners=

Alan Duncan explained about the exercise

Can you explain which organization you are representing and what are their objectives?
How they work and working structure?
 * Chirag means in hindi Spark, light, started in 1986
 * Initially worked with health system
 * Over 25 years organization moved from health aspect to education, livelihood, Natural resource management etc
 * Working in two districts Nainital and Bageswar, covering various blocks of Nainital and one block of Bagheswar district
 * Work with poor and marginalized farmers, In Uttarakhand traditionally women is involved in farming as men migrate to nearby towns for employment. So so empowernment of women is given importance for livelihood activities
 * The broad objectives are including forestry conservation and livelihood improvement through livestock and agriculture.
 * Livestock component in the projects has been established recently.
 * They work through the formation of self help groups in villages, and federations at the cluster of district level. These federation are mainly for the marketing of agricultural and livestock value added products.
 * With specific to livestock, They have three federation for value chain micro enterprice, one is with HIMMOTHAN (Sri Ratan Tata Trust) supported project for the fodder development, the other is for validating and promotion of herbal veterinary medicines and third one is for the feed mixing plant with milk marketing for the formulation and marketing of balanced feed for the livestock and promotion of value added dairy products.
 * Under the fodder development project they have promoted grass and tree fodder in the forest and common land.
 * Areas of improvement concerned were the feed improvement for the livestock, silage and hay stacking tried but failed for adaptation by communities. Some of the grass species has to be identified for better feeding as availability of green grass is main constraint in this area.
 * Through the SHGs
 * Trained paravets for veterinary services
 * Through the cattle feed unit certain traditional crops promoted or conserved

Is Milk IT objectives are linked with existing activities?
Yes exactly, we carried out some studies in the impact of project especially with feed mixing unit, we found that Anchal (state owned cooperative) is big organization are providing feed comparatively cheaper prices for farmers because of large scale activities.

Sokoine University of Agriculture
1964 named after the prime minister, mainly focused on forestry in early then included the food production on the objectives. Following are the faculties and institutes Under graduation for various programme Master level- agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine What are the current research themes currently going on and areas?
 * Faculty of forestry
 * Faculty of veterinary medicine
 * Faculty of agriculture
 * Institute of development studies
 * Institute of continuing education
 * Agriculture
 * Horticulture
 * Forestry
 * Home economics
 * Food science and technology
 * Agronomy
 * Livestock management
 * Current strength- 7000 students
 * Activities- teaching research and extension programme
 * Soil and water management of livestock and crop production
 * Enhancing livelihood through pro-poor agricultural development and value chain improvement
 * Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

Livestock Research Institute- Tanga

 * An autonomous institute for livestock research development
 * Includes Dept of animal health, breeding
 * Cross breeding importance and sentisitizing the research output to farmers
 * Works in various districts, coastal region,
 * They have very good networking for the livestock development

INHERE
Livestock related activities in the projects
 * Started in the year of 1982 by Bharat Bisht and Sonali Bisht
 * 1982-85 involved in research activities
 * 1986 onwards implementing body for the research and development projects
 * 12 field office in 3 districts- Almora, Champawat and Chamoli and one training centre in Chinoni village (Chaukhutiya block)
 * Covering 350-400 villages, they have more coverage in Almora block
 * From 1990s livestock was one of component as livestock is more important and integrated with livelihood of farmers so fodder promotion was integrated in some projects especially tree plantation
 * One livestock project in which 6 paravets trained for vaccination, health care and artificial insemination
 * Promotion of breed improvement by arranging breeding bulls
 * Fodder project which is integrated with watershed programme in which tree planting for fodder promotion for winter season when there is fodder shortage
 * Border grass- napier grass promotion for winter season, done in Almora district
 * Collaboration with IFAD for ULIPH project in Dhauladevi block where SHGs are active now
 * Issue- inbreeding is very alarming issue in this area, so Inhere provided quality bulls for the breeding and had some impact in the breed improvement
 * Awareness camps for health and vaccination done periodically

Is IFAD-ULIPH programme is influencing your activities?

 * We are part of and implementing agency of IFAD project in one block. Our concept of organic farming has been taken by IFAD programme, under this, local people of community is managing the value chain of organic agricultural products. They were first organization for implementation of IFAD programme

To SKU- there are diff actors like research and development aspect, how is your research activities linked, are they mainly in on station or on farm?
 * we are doing both type of research depends upon the research theme, we also go to farmers depends upon the research, participatory is given importance now days because there is ownership of solutions so it will help them, so increasing their income and alleviation of poverty

SKU- Are u working with devt orga or govet ins?
 * Mainly with extension workers

TLRI
 * We do both on farm and station research.

INHERE-do u conducts research? We are collaborating with scientific institution for research, innovation platform for the research work we do. We do participatory aspect for capturing the impact of the project, on farm research is necessary and success case studies also important for capturing the impact so there sd be combination of both

CHIRAG- Do you conduct research? We don’t do much research, we collect data for seeing the impact and data collection and reports are needed for funding agencies what are the impacts and it is needed for monitoring the implementation process.

How does u see this project milkIT?

 * INHERE- It is good opportunity for us to learn on the livestock development project with support of ILRIs knowledge


 * SKU- linking the producers with the marketing institution is important for example milk productivity depends upon the feed, breed, health services etc. Production of grass should be taken as regional activity so that yield can be enhanced to combat seasonal feed deficit.


 * LRC- consumption pattern also to be studied because there is change in consumption pattern in Tanzania. But there was discussion that there is import of dairy products from other country.


 * CHIRAG- we are looking as extension, this project will help us to see the gap and can fill the gap and take forward.

Non- Fish participants-opinion

 * Cultural study of milk consumption- Dairy board of Tanzania is doing the study and taking importance. Sensitizing the key stakeholders is importance for production, southern high lands don’t consume milk,
 * EED – innovation projects such as school milk programme etc to increase consumption., if people take milk suddenly they suffer lactose syndrome.
 * What is the need to take milk in Tanzania? Nutritional importance….no idea…..but lactase syndrome if milk is started at later age…
 * Opportunity to improve cash flow.
 * The people who have never used milk should we introduce?
 * The data of Tanzania shows that import of milk is increasing, but why can’t to produce locally.
 * It is interesting that consumption should be given deep insight in pattern of milk consumption.