Packaged/processed milk in the US/EU is used widely primarily becuase it would cost a hell lot more to distribute & buy the fresh milk. Its a good naimat that you get taaza doodh so cheaply.

Great, nice comment. I agree completely to what you said specially the competition point.

And price controls dont work, competition does. Instead of making the market more competitive (telecom industry?) price bans make it less attractive. Many people drop out, and the remaining get monopoly over their areas/sector/niches/whatever. Let two three more distributors get up and running (like Olpers and Goodmilk) and you’ll see a whole new ball game. Another one of the problems is the ganging up of a particular industry against the consumer. E.g. Car Battery manufacturers are all producing the same low quality batteries and selling them at high prices. You have 4 brands to choose from, but theres no difference apart from the color used. All will die within a year :S The same can be seen in the packaged milk industry, where through “TetraPak” they’ve essentially ganged up on the little man.

And i am surprised that we’re in the top 5 milk producers and YET we have no milk for ourselves.

But as with all problems, there are opportunities for business here as well. Momekh on Lahore MB posted a few months back of starting up a milk distribution company, Keemak Milk, where he gets the milk directly from the farms, packages it, and sells to houses at very reasonable rates..

In Karachi; if only for One day People don’t buy the Milk from Dood walla (Pani walla). But (abay yaar kion kerayga)

Buy the Haleeb, Opel, or Milk pack. What ganna happend ? Who will suffer (Dood walla) ? As we are Good Nation for Boycotts lets fights local Dens First. Right !

God helps those who help themselves.

Think Global Act Local

Ahad

• Lack of milk storage facilities (freezers, etc) at the point of production, which results in wastage (ask any Punjabi villager where the utilization of surplus milk is a problem on occasions) as the daily production has to be consumed daily;
• Lack of safe milk transportation facilities (frigid trucks) from the point of production to the processing/selling point Рagain results in wastage, restricted delivery circles, and high mark-ups charged by the middleman РKarachi therefore cannot be supplied from Sargodha, Sahiwal or other major milk producing areas;
• Inadequate milk processing facilities Рagain wastage results;
• Inadequate commercialization of milk production industry. Majority of milk in produced by small scale farmers, with limited resources and technical expertise, rather than by large, professionally run, dairy farms;
• Inadequate scientific research is conducted to augment milk production per animal as well as minimum information flow from research institutions to producers, if any research is carried out;
• Informal marketing methods (dhoodwalas, instead of bottled milk from supermarkets) resulting in artificial pricing, lack of quality of the product and insufficient incentives for producers;

If you think here might be more factors.

BTW, Pakistan is the fifth largest producers of milk in the world and houses third largest number of buffaloes.

I feel its a lack of
1. enforced regulations on the Milk industry to preserve quality of the product
2. Competition
3. Lack of accountability – i.e. corruption.