Web and mobile technologies have been introduced such that Sri Lanka’s dairy farmers can achieve self-sufficiency in milk production. The project, called e-Dairy, is part of the effort by the country’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) to improve livelihoods of the rural community, which accounts for 70 per cent of the country’s population. Read … Continue reading
Category Archives: Dairying
Tacit knowledge and innovation capacity: Evidence from the Indian livestock sector
To cope and compete in this rapidly-changing world, organisations need to access and apply new knowledge. While explicit knowledge is important, what is often critical is an organisation’s ability to create, access, share and apply the tacit or un-codified knowledge that exists among its members, its network and the wider innovation system of which it … Continue reading
New dairy farms emerging in North China
China’s dairy industry is on the move if developments in Xingtang county in north China’s Hebei Province are anything to go by. Cows used to roam around rural houses there, but now they are being sent to the province’s 109 new dairy farms built this year. The county government has encouraged dairy farmers to set … Continue reading
Dairying / East Africa / ILRI / India / Kenya / Livestock / Markets / South Asia
Symposium develops policy to transform traditional milk markets in East Africa and Northeast India
Between 1 and 4 December 2009, some 25 dairy-sector stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Northeast India met at ILRI Nairobi for a South-South symposium to share lessons on traditional dairy development. Read more … (Livestock Markets Digest) Continue reading
Asia / Cattle / Dairying / Environment / Livestock / Pastoralism / Vulnerability
Pastoralism unraveling in Mongolia
A pungent odor like turpentine wafts over the hillsides north of the Mongolian capital. It comes from the sharilj, a wild plant that has taken over the scalloped landscape, a telltale sign of overgrazing since the plant is inedible for sheep and goats. Sukhtseren Sharav has a herd of 150 goats and 100 sheep, and … Continue reading
Climate Change / Dairying / Livestock / UK
Livestock hold key to Copenhagen
Livestock production is one of the major causes of the world’s most pressing environmental problem – global warming. The United Nations estimates that livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, a bigger share even than transport. Monday, (December 7), world leaders from 192 nations will join 15,000 people from across the world … Continue reading
Engro Foods launches Pakistan’s first Dairy Hub
Milk demand is growing by 15 per cent while supply has been increasing by only 3 to 4 per cent in the country. Managing Director Tetra Pak Pakistan, Azhar Ali Syed at the launching ceremony of the first Dairy Hub of Pakistan in Kassowal, district Sahiwal said Pakistan’s dairy sector is at an important crossroad. … Continue reading
Business hubs for dairy farmers
Selling milk from dairy cows and goats can be an excellent business for small-scale farmers. Recently, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established a project in three East African countries, which aims to double the income of one million rural people, through small-scale dairying. Dr Amos Omore from the International Livestock Research Institute explains … Continue reading
Agriculture / Dairying / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya
If words were food, nobody would go hungry
Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade At the height of the food-price spike in 2008, many of the biggest food producers banned the export of crops (they sought to cushion the domestic impact of rising world prices). Most of these restrictions have been lifted and replaced by a … Continue reading
Maximising milk: Breed or feed?
With growing demand in Africa for dairy products, much work is being done by scientists and farmers to improve milk production. But what is important in ensuring high milk production? Is it the breed of cow or the feed it is given? Pastoralist Albert Kuseyo, dairy expert Dr. Amos Omore, and Gerald Besseling, a farmer … Continue reading
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