Zambia 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 […]
Senegal Senegal: From milk to yogurt to success 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 […]
Senegal Senegal: Family dairy developing yoghurt distribution network in Kolda 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. […]
Backgrounder on dairy production admin | October 28, 2019 Raising dairy cattle can be a very productive enterprise. But there are many aspects to caring for dairy animals, ensuring […]
Storing dairy fodder for the dry season increases farmers’ income 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 […]
Tanzania Tanzania: Farmers increase milk production by making feed with banana plants 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 […]
Malawi Malawi: Strength in numbers for milk producers 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 […]
Camels provide farmers in drylands with milk and income 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 […]
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe: Poor rains affect women dairy farmers 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 […]
Kenya Kenya: Dairy farmers make maize silage to maximize profits 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 […]