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What workedA paneer manufacturer in Thakurgaon, in a Prothom Alo report · Started in 2012

From 27 litres of milk a day to 2,200, and over 100 workers

Paneer-making started in 2012 on 27 litres of milk a day now takes 2,200 litres daily at the main factory and 2,500 more across two others; over 100 workers earn 4,500-5,000 taka a month each and the owner clears 60,000-70,000.

This housewife from Nischintapur in Thakurgaon town began making paneer in 2012 on 27 litres of milk a day, financed by a loan from a private development organisation whose size the report does not give. Nine years on, the main factory takes 2,200 litres a day and two further factories another 2,500 between them. More than a hundred people work for her, most of them disadvantaged women, at 4,500-5,000 taka a month each. For all that volume, what is left to her after every cost is 60,000-70,000 taka a month: in dairy processing, scale does not automatically mean a large personal income. She says she wants to expand further and employ more women.

Lessons

  1. 1.Scale in dairy processing is measured in litres in, not taka out: 27 litres a day became 2,200 over nine years
  2. 2.A hundred-worker payroll still leaves the owner 60,000-70,000 a month: output and personal income are not the same thing

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