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Our proudest achievement is our internationally acclaimed development of the Punjab's milk district.
Hundreds of thousands of small farmers live over an area of 100,000 square kilometres in central Punjab.
Of these farmers, most have only a few head of buffalo – yet Pakistan is the world's fifth largest producer of milk.
Milk is very fragile in our hot climate, and distribution historically depended on a network of suppliers and middlemen.
Without refrigeration, the milk arrived in towns already soured or adulterated with preservatives,
such as vegetable oil or caustic soda.
When Milkpak Ltd. began operations, such was the state of affairs that though the milk was cleaned,
pasteurised, homogenised and sterilised at the Milkpak factory in Sheikhupura, its shelf-life in summer was,
at most, four weeks. By contrast, in Europe UHT milk had a shelf-life of six months.
Something had to be done. Milkpak immediately took measures to improve milk quality and the collection system,
and when Nestlé entered in 1988, these efforts were stepped up.
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