By Rosamma Thomas* The International Dairy Federation’s first regional conference for the Asia Pacific region was held in Kochi from June 26 to 28. The National Dairy Development Board and the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying were part of the organizers of this conference. On June 28, the conference witnessed a presentation by Ilse Kohler Rollefson, ‘Streamlining markets for camel pastoralists.’ Rollefson, who arrived in India as a researcher in 1991, stayed on in Sadri, Pali district of Rajasthan, working among the Raika to create a market for camel milk so the traditional lifestyle of the Raika can be conserved.