Stories tagged: dairy

Zambia: Dairy farmer uses milking machines to avoid milk losses due to COVID-19

Dorica Banda | March 7, 2022

It’s four o’clock in the morning and a bell rings loudly in the semi-darkness. The bell signals that the work […]

Hannah Tellier | April 13, 2020

For nearly 20 years, 71-year-old Seydou Baldé has been producing yogurt known as “lait caillé”—an excellent source of calcium and […]

Hélène Boucher | October 28, 2019

Rain or shine, 70-year-old Seydou Baldé has been making the same “lait caillé,” the local name for yogurt, since 2003. […]

admin | October 28, 2019

Raising dairy cattle can be a very productive enterprise. But there are many aspects to caring for dairy animals, ensuring […]

admin | October 28, 2019

Like this week’s Farmer story from Senegal and this week’s Resource, our Script of the week focuses on the dairy […]

Method Charles | February 4, 2019

The sun is setting and its light is fading away through the leaves of the banana plants that almost surround […]

Jean Pierre Niyitanga | July 25, 2016

Bertha Likhaluwe stands proudly beside her three cows, which are fenced in a wooden pen beside her brick house. The […]

admin | May 23, 2016

This week’s story from Kenya features a livestock keeper who switched from cattle to camels because of the drought, and […]

Vladmir Mzaca | May 9, 2016

Drought has had a big impact on the dairy cows in Zimbabwe’s province of Matabeleland South. Sheila Lupuwana is saddened […]

Sawa Pius | December 7, 2015

Peter Choge and three other men are busily feeding green maize plants into a shredding machine. Two of the men […]