Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger
Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger
Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger
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Field handbook • Scientific and Technical Department<br />
Shamb<br />
Less than 10<br />
cows<br />
Milk collector (Manvel)<br />
Collects up to 70 t during the summer<br />
season Constraint: Has no milk cooling<br />
equipment, so milk is low quality and<br />
sometimes refused by buyer. Can only<br />
collect low quaantity<br />
Ashtarak Kat collection<br />
centre<br />
80 – 100 AMD per liter.<br />
Interested in buying<br />
more milk but must be<br />
properly cooled<br />
Ashtarak Kat processing<br />
factory (yogurt, ice<br />
cream)<br />
Present Situation of Dairy Sector in Dzorer Valley<br />
Darbas<br />
421 cows<br />
Almost all farms have 1-2<br />
cows only, 1 large farmer<br />
with more than 20 cows<br />
600 t annually<br />
Lor<br />
250 cows<br />
Almost all farms have<br />
1- 2 cows only<br />
200 t milk annually<br />
Shenatagh<br />
Less than 100<br />
cows<br />
Darbas cheese<br />
factory<br />
Large farmer only uses<br />
milk from own cows to<br />
make cheese, 12 t per<br />
year. Constraint: badly<br />
run business<br />
Cheese making at home (Lor)<br />
Five households with higher quality cheese, up<br />
to 10 with lower fat (lower priced) cheese, during<br />
summer months when milk yield high. Constraint:<br />
no sanitary conditions, often made<br />
because of lack of alternative (no market for<br />
raw milk)<br />
Home use<br />
Milk, butter, yoghurt, cheese<br />
90 t Lor, 370 t Darbas,<br />
or around half of all production<br />
Demand more than satisfied<br />
Village trader<br />
Brings village cheese to<br />
Yerevan, up to 18 t, 800-<br />
1000 per kilo Constraint:<br />
low volumes of high quality<br />
cheese to sell<br />
Traders arrive in the village<br />
Buy low fat cheese<br />
700 per kilo Constraint:<br />
usually bartered, irregular<br />
market, often no traders<br />
arrive<br />
Use whey<br />
for feeding<br />
pigs (50 pigs<br />
in village)<br />
Cheese delivered to<br />
Yerevan distributors<br />
Increasing conditions re<br />
quality, sanitation, regular<br />
delivery<br />
Supermarkets Sold by weight to consumer<br />
sliced from larger packages, usually without<br />
brands, may be identified by region<br />
Open markets<br />
Little guarantee of food<br />
safety, sold in open air<br />
INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES: A KEY CONCEPT IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURTIY<br />
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