VCD India

Value Chain Development - India

Key Contact Details

Vamsidhar Reddy Sadasivareddy, ILRI National Coordinator, Value Chain Country Leader

Projects

• ACIAR Fodder and feeds
• MilkIT (IFAD)
• CSISA2
• GETDairy (OPEC)
• MaizeLive

Events

• Ranking best-bets by the partners/ stakeholders in Bihar at Patna during 4 December 2015
• India Dairy VC Planning Meeting at BHU, Varanasi during 24-25 September 2015
• Workshop between key representatives of ILRI and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for discussing the Triennial Work Plan 2015-2018 in New Delhi during 21-22 September 2015
• Presentation of VCA results from Nalanda at ICAE, Milan, Italy 8-14 August 2015
• VC Scoping in Nalanda and Gaya districts of Bihar 14-17 October 2014
• Workshop to fine-tune VCA tools, Patna, Bihar 13 October 2014
• Groundtrughing for selecting districts in Bihar 15-20 September 2014
• Assessing the collaboration potential of different stakeholders for VCA and other similar activities 8-12 September 2014
• Livestock and Fish India small-holder dairy value chain planning workshop, ICRISAT, Hyderabad India, 27-28 August 2014
• Livestock and Fish India small-holder dairy value chain transformation in Bihar: opportunities, challenges and the way forward, Bihar, India 1-2 August 2014
• India dairy value-chain team meeting (May 2012)

Tools and Resources

Dairy value chain assessment producer sheet File:Dairy value chain assessment producer data sheet.docx

Dairy value chain assessment producer focus group guide with gender inputs File:Dairy Value chain assessment producers focus group guide with gender inputs.docx

Dairy value chain retailers-processors questionnaire File:Dairy value chain retailers-processors questionnaire.docx

Workshop report on smallholder dairy transformation in Bihar File:Report_Workshop on Small-holder dairy transformation in Bihar 2.pdf

Selection of Agencies in Bihar/ India for Implementing Value Chain Assessment File:Agencies for VCA and other tasks.pdf

Planning Documents

• India Site Selection
• India Work Planning Document

Key Documents

• Situation analysis (July 2014)
• Value chain assessment report
• Bihar State (India) smallholder dairy value chains impact pathways narrative
• Value Chain Assessment in Nalanda district File:A Report on Dairy Value Chain Assessment in Nalanda District.pdf
• Policy Incoherence in Smallholder Dairying in Bihar File:DiscussionPaper33.pdf
• A Spatial Study of Fodder Markets in Gaya and Nalanda districts of Bihar File:Fodder markets_Bihar.pdf
• Presentation made on results of VCA at Nalanda in ICAE 2015, MilanFile:Presentation at ICAE.pptx
• Fodder Policy for Andhra Pradesh File:Fodder policy_AP.pdf
• Roles played by dairy farming in south Bihar agrarian systems File:SupAgro Presentation.pptx
• Reports of the agrarian system analysis in Gaya and Nalanda File:DelesalleKleinpeter BodhgayaBihar Report.pdf File:RabassaLasina EkangarsaraiBihar Report.pdf
• First stage of best-bet selection for Bihar dairy value chain File:Best bets for India Dairy VCT.pdf
• Ranking of best-bets by partners/ stakeholders in Bihar File:Report on ranking best bets in Bihar.pdf