A private sector-led initiative, through the Central Bank of Nigeria’s backward integration policy, to raise the level of local milk production, reduce the huge import bill for milk and create jobs has reached an advanced stage. The initiative, which is being driven by FrieslandCampina WAMCO Plc, has increased raw milk production to 40,000 litres per day and empowered over 7,000 dairy farmers.
Langat also said the company, encouraged by the DDP, has surpassed the target of 10 per cent local raw materials sourcing it set for itself in 2016. Hear him: “We have achieved and surpassed the target we set in 2016 on dairy development. Launched in 2010, the DPP is a Private-Public Partnership initiative aimed at sustainably developing the local dairy value chain by improving milk quality and increasing milk production via the training of local pastoralists on dairy farming practices, while also supporting the Federal Government’s BIP.
It was in a bid to help close the gap and cut the import bill that FrieslandCampina WAMCO, through the DDP, threw its weight behind the CBN’s BIP. And as it turns out, the programme appears to be on the right track 10 years down the line. “We also have institutional partners – organisations, universities and government ministries. It is an ecosystem that is developing just like in other countries where we have DDP,” he told The Nation, in an interview.
Interestingly, farmers’ wives have also set up cooperatives and established various businesses. The women have more time for themselves now because of having an income source; they don’t have to walk long distances to hawk items or fetch water anymore. The Nation learnt that the Kano State Agro Pastoral Development Project is investing heavily in local milk production and processing. The aim is to fast-track the development of indigenous dairy industry.
The Kano State Agro Pastoral Development Project is partnering the Raw Materials Research and Development Council and other research institutions to revitalise the economy.
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