Milk processing and marketing options for rural small scale producers
1998
Tsehay Reda (MoA, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia))
In Ethiopia, milk is produced in all the agricultural production systems. The bulk (98 percent) of the milk (MOA, 1993) is produced in rural areas by peasant farmers, who do not have access to market their products at a better price. Linking the rural production to village, town and urban consumers by establishing rural milk marketing and processing units constitutes important contributions to dairy development. Improvement efforts in developing the marketing system will provide more economic advantages to smallholder dairy producers.To improve the dairy marketing situation different options have been proposed. Some of the proposed options have been implemented by the Smallholder Dairy Development Project (SDDP) of the Ministy of Agriculture. New strategies of setting up of milk processing and marketing units under producers/peasant farmer's milk marketing groups were adopted. Farmers involved in this system have secured a regular income from sales of milk. This paper describes the activities of farmer's milk marketing groups established with the support of the SDDP.
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