CARE Announces Grant for Dairy Farmers

ATLANTA -- CARE today announced a grant of $5.2 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for strengthening the dairy value chain in Bangladesh to increase the productivity of small-scale dairy farmers and link them to the formal dairy market.

Bill Gates, co-chair of the foundation, announced the project as part of a package of agricultural development grants at a press conference with Amos Namanga Ngongi, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.

To read the full press release, visit the CARE Web site.