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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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