Milk processing capacity, 2007

Dairy (establishment year) Average milk collection (litres/day)Smallholder

milk suppliers

1. Milk Vita (1973) 200 000 150 000

2. Amomilk (1996) 10 000 5 000

3. Tulip Dairy(1998) 3 000 2 000

4 Arong–BRAC Dairy (1998) 80 000 70 000

5. Bikrampur Dairy (1998) 10 000 6 000

6. Ultra–Shelaidah Dairy (1998) 10 000 4 000

7. Aftab (1998) 8 000 4 000

8. Pran (2001) 40 000 30 000

9. Grameen–CLDDP (1999) 7 000 6 000

10. Rangpur Dairy (2007) 8 000 7 000

11. Akij Group (2007) 4 000 500

12. Grameen Danone (2007) 1 000 From CLDDP

13. Savar Dairy (1974) 3 000

From own

farm

14. Army Self-consumption

From own

farm

Total 384 000 284 500

The above chart declared that market leader of dairy industry of Bangldesh id Milk vita,

but the 51 % owner of Milk vita is Bangladesh government and rest out of owner are

simple householder of village who supplies the milk to the government.

The cotation was retrived from

http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/003/y0174e.htm

“Because dairy cows are mainly owned by marginal smallholders and are directly linked

to family income and nutrition for them, a programme to support dairy development was

given high priority by the newly-independent Government of Bangladesh, beginning in

1974. At that time, the Co-operative "Bangladesh Milk Producers Co-operative Union

Ltd." (BMPCUL) was initiated by the Government with the financial and technical

assistance of UNDP and FAO, and grants in kind from DANIDA. The co-operative is

known throughout the country by the brand name of its products 'Milk Vita'.

43. The primary target poverty group for the intervention were rural small-scale farmers,

including landless households. The main objectives of the programme were threefold:

increasing family income of small farmers

strengthening support services for livestock development and

ensuring the supply of hygienic milk and dairy products to the urban population.

44. These objectives were in conformity with the Government's longer-term objective of

raising agricultural income of small scale farmers in relatively remote rural areas through

the organisation of a sustainable co-operative dairy programme.”

So, its impossible to detect the entepreniour of Milkvita and then we worked on Arong–

BRAC Dairy who is 2nd market of this industry. The ownet of the BRAC dairy firm is Sir

Fazle Hasan Abed

Biography of Mr. Fazle Hasan Abed

In 1972, Fazle Hasan Abed founded the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

(BRAC) and a holistic development model that has revolutionized income-generating

opportunities for rural communities in developing countries. Through its handicraft and

fashion section, Aarong, BRAC has developed a sustainable national brand that provides

a livelihood in the creative industries for tens of thousands of people across Bangladesh.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, is a social worker with dual Banglsadeshi/British nationality. nd

the founder and chairman of BRAC. For his outstanding contributions to social

improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq

Award and the inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award. He was appointed Knight

Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2010 New Year

Honours for services in tackling poverty and empowering the poor in Bangladesh and

globally.

Fazle Hasan Abed was born in 1936 into a landed family in Baniachong in Habiganj

district of Bangladesh. He gave hiv secondary exam in Pabna Zilla School and completed

his higher secondary education from Dhaka College.

Then he went to Glasgow University to study in field of Naval Architecture but it is

difficule to woek as naval engeniour in Bangladesh. So he changed his plan and joined

into Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in London, completing his

professional education in 1962. He came back to Bangladesh and joined into Shell Oil

Company and quickly promoted in head its finance division. His time at Shell exposed

Abed to the inner workings of a large conglomerate and provided him with insight into

corporate management, which would become invaluable to him later in life.

During 1970 the devastating cyclone was happened and the cyclone killed almost 30

million people of Bangladesh. Mr Abed realized this kinds of devastation, the comforts

and perks of a corporate executive's life ceased to have any attraction for him. He created

HELP, an association that provided relief and rehabilitation to the most terrible affected

in the island of Manpura with his friend, , which had lost three quarters of its population

in the disaster.

It was during his time at Shell that the devastating cyclone of 1970 hit the coastal regions

of Bangladesh, killing 300,000 people. The cyclone had a profound effect on Abed - in

the face of such devastation, the comforts and perks of a corporate executive's life ceased

to have any attraction for him. Together with friends, Abed created HELP, an

organization that provided relief and rehabilitation to the worst affected in the island of

Manpura, which had lost three quarters of its population in the disaster.

After that the lebaration war of Bangladesh had began and the situation forced to leave

the country. He found refuge in England, where he set up Action Bangladesh to lobby for

his country’s independence with the governments of Europe.

When the war ruined in December 1971, Abed sold his apartment in London and came

back to the newly independent Bangladesh to find his country in ruins. In addition, the 10

million refugees who had sought shelter in India during the war had started to return

home. Their relief and rehabilitation called for urgent efforts. Abed decided to use the

funds he had generated from selling his flat to initiate his own. He selected the remote

region of Sulla in northeastern Bangladesh to start his work. This work led him and his

organisation, BRAC, to deal with the long-term task of improving the living conditions of

the rural poor.

In a span of only three decades, BRAC grew to become the largest development

organisation in the world in terms of the scale and diversity of its interventions. As

BRAC grew, Abed ensured that it continued to target the landless poor, particularly

women, a large percentage of whom live below the poverty line with little or no access to

resources or conventional development efforts.

BRAC now operates in more than 69 thousand villages of Bangladesh and covers an

estimated 110 million people through its development interventions that range from

primary education, essential healthcare, agricultural support and human rights and legal

services to microfinance and enterprise development.

In 2002, BRAC went international by taking its range of development interventions to

Afghanistan. Since then, BRAC has expanded to a total of eight countries across Asia and

Africa, successfully adapting its unique integrated development model across varying

geographic and socioeconomic contexts.

Under Abed’s leadership, BRAC has made remarkable achievements against enormous

odds. That BRAC continues to evolve, experiment, and expand is a testament to the

vision, courage and dynamism of its founder. Its work has been recognized

internationally through awards such as the $1.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian

Prize in 2008, which is the world’s largest humanitarian prize, as well as the Swadhinata

Puroshkar in 2007, the highest state award in Bangladesh.

For his contribution to society, Abed has received numerous national and international

awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1980, the

Unicef Maurice Pate Award in 1992, the Olof Palme Prize in 2001, the UNDP Mahbub ul

Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution in Human Development in 2004 and the

Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2007. He is a founding member of Ashoka’s

prestigious Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Abed has also received several

honorary degrees including Doctor of Humane Letters from Yale University in 2007,

Doctor of Laws from Columbia University in 2008 and Doctor of Letters from the

University of Oxford in 2009.

Refernces:

1) http://www.tradeforum.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/1460/Brac-

Aarong:_Financing_and_Promoting_the_Creative_Industries.html