The International Executive Services Corps (IESC), a cooperation organisation of the United States of America, has expressed its support to provide the necessary technical and financial support to boost Sri Lanka’s dairy industry with the collaboration of the Agriculture and Plantation Industries Ministry to market-oriented dairy projects.
A discussion on these matters was held yesterday (3) at the Agriculture Ministry and the discussion was chaired by Agriculture and Plantation Industries Minister Mahinda Amaraweera. Chief Executive and President of IESC David Hartinch participated in the event.
The IESC institute is carrying out the capacity increase of the small-scale dairy cattle management units that produce about 100 litres of milk per day in our country, providing new technology and necessary technical and financial cooperation.
The small-scale dairy production units under the Agriculture Ministry as well as the Defence Ministry are to be mobilized for this work arrangement. Chief Executive and President of IESC David Hartinch said that the aim of his organisation is to raise the economic situation to strengthen the community and his organisation has no profit-making objective at all.
Funding for this is provided by the United States Agriculture Department and the IESC is leading all the activities.
Currently, milk production units have been identified which are less than 100 litres of milk per day and the aim is to increase the daily income of the farmers by increasing the milk production of those units.
The Minister said that this arrangement should be done to attract the youth community who are not interested in the dairy industry by upgrading the dairy farmer to a dairy entrepreneur instead of the dairy farmer.
