In an effort to increase access to information and knowledge along the dairy value chain and more so for the benefit of smallholder dairy farmers, the EADD project in Uganda has launched a farmers’ training radio program called Ente Bugagga … Continue reading
Kokiche dairy cooling plant is located in the picturesque hills of Kenya’s Rift Valley region, near Sotik town of Buret district. The area has a relatively good climate suitable for both crop and dairy farming. Many farmers here are subsistence … Continue reading
The East Africa Dairy Development Project’s interventions to improve dairy production is transforming the lives of smallholder farmers like Florence Chepkirui, a visually impaired resident of Saoset village of Bomet district in Kenya’s south Rift Valley region. The district has … Continue reading
Pulverizer machines can help small-scale farmers in East Africa transport, store and stall-feed their ruminant animals with the bulky dry forages they may have at hand, such as grass and legume hays, fibrous crop residues such as cereal stovers of … Continue reading
Siongiroi Dairy Project is located at Siongiroi market centre within Siongiroi Division of Bomet District. The region is mainly inhabited by a pastoralist community of the Kalenjin tribe whose main economic and social activity is dairy farming and cattle rearing. … Continue reading
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has released the 2010 agricultural progress report pointing out that EADD has made substantial progress in the project milestones in 2009. The project continues to improve the livelihoods of thousands of dairy farmers in … Continue reading
Nabitanga Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society in Uganda has installed a new milk cooling tank. The 6,000 liter capacity tank was installed in June 2010 and is already operational serving hundreds of farmers in the area. The dairy cooperative currently has … Continue reading
Tanyikina dairy plant in Nandi District is one of EADD’s many supported farmer hubs that is making steady progress. As one of the pre-existing cooling plants that EADD engaged and since its re-launch in November 2008, the dairy enterprise has … Continue reading
By Fidelis Zvomuya Sixteen years after blood flowed, it’s now water under the bridge as milk is flowing in ‘the country of a thousand hills’, Rwanda’s Jocelyn Ingabire says. This increase in milk production, is attributed to favorable government policies … Continue reading
Nestlé Equatorial Region and the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project have entered into a partnership which will see an elaborate collaboration between the two entities in the development of the dairy sector in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. Speaking at … Continue reading
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