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Dairy Asia’s Steering Committee meeting held
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Dairy Asia is a multi-stakeholder
partnership of willing partners committed to visioning and building a
sustainable dairy sector in Asia and the Pacific region. The partnership is
voluntary and functions on the principles of consensus and mutual respect.
Dairy Asia secretariat office has been established in Ulaanbaatar that supported
by the Government of Mongolia and UN FAO with GASL (Global Agenda for
Sustainable Livestock).
Dairy
Asia has 13 member countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India,
Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and
Vietnam. Dairy Asia is aiming to expand its membership to North-East Asia,
Central Asia, Middle East, and West Asia.
Dairy
Asia’s Steering Committee regular Meeting was held online via Zoom on 30th
June 2021 at 04.00 pm Ulaanbaatar time/Asia. The Steering Committee has discussed
Dairy Asia’s work plan for the second half of 2021 and initial proposal on
“Asian Milk Week”
According
to the work plan, Dairy Asia will organize the following events and activities in
the next months: Dairy Asia webinar: School Milk program, Dairy Asia Dialogue:
Yak milk production, Consultative meeting on “Dairy Asia’s perspective” and Annual
meeting of Steering Committee members and Focal points.
Asia
is the largest continent where about 60 percent of the world’s population is
living. The continent accounts for 40 percent of the world’s milk production.
The diversity in the dairy sector of Asia is enormous. Smallholders with one
buffalo, or few yaks, sheep, goats, farmers with hundreds and thousands of
cows, cooperatives and even urban dairy farmers are there in the continent.
To
introduce the Asian dairy sector to the world, raising public awareness on milk
consumption and production, and support consumer food education Dairy Asia is
initially proposing “Asian Milk Week”. Process is ongoing.
