diff --git a/src/sonic-config-engine/minigraph.py b/src/sonic-config-engine/minigraph.py
index a72eed754b8c..bfb478ba381b 100644
--- a/src/sonic-config-engine/minigraph.py
+++ b/src/sonic-config-engine/minigraph.py
@@ -211,8 +211,9 @@ def parse_dpg(dpg, hname):
 
             # If this VLAN requires a DHCP relay agent, it will contain a <DhcpRelays> element
             # containing a list of DHCP server IPs
-            if vintf.find(str(QName(ns, "DhcpRelays"))) is not None:
-                vintfdhcpservers = vintf.find(str(QName(ns, "DhcpRelays"))).text
+            vintf_node = vintf.find(str(QName(ns, "DhcpRelays")))
+            if vintf_node is not None and vintf_node.text is not None:
+                vintfdhcpservers = vintf_node.text
                 vdhcpserver_list = vintfdhcpservers.split(';')
                 vlan_attributes['dhcp_servers'] = vdhcpserver_list