Kamala Bhandari from Kalika Dairy Co-operative committee CASE STUDY.
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Warwick Franklin
Issue Date
30/01/2015 , 03/12/2012
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en
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Food , Agriculture
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Dairy Farmers Livelihoods DAULAT MASF 5000305
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CASE STUDY: Kamala Bhandari Kamala is 45 and has 3 daughters, aged 27, 22 and 17. She was a founding member of the Kalika Dairy Co-operative and is now proud to be Vice Chair of the committee, running meetings when the Chair is unable to attend. At the project’s start she had two cows and sold the milk to a 3-Km distant collective. She supplemented the income from her cows by growing maize, wheat and rice. She earned just enough to feed her family, but didn’t have money to educate her daughters. She also said that buying ‘luxuries like salt’ was a real struggle. Thanks to Practical Action, she now has five cows, two of which are pregnant. The other three produce 30 litres of milk a day. She bought her cows with a loan from the bank and it has taken her from bare financial survival, to producing a suplus which can be saved. A large milk company in Pokhara buys Kamala’s milk and they often pay late which causes her cashflow problems. However, now she can borrow from her neighbours, because they know she is earning, and can repay them. Her oldest two daughters are married, and they did not benefit from the extra household income but because Kamala’s situation has changed, her youngest daughter has been able to attend college, and wants to be a veterinary nurse.
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