Milk processing capacity, 2007

Smallholder
Dairy (establishment year) Average milk collection (litres/day)
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
From own
13. Savar Dairy (1974) 3 000 farm
From own
14. Army Self-consumption 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