Poster prepared by Akinade Samson Adebayo for the ILRI-CTA African Dairy Value Chain Seminar, Nairobi, Kenya, 21-24 September 2014.

1. Nigerian Dairy Development Programme
Akinade Samson Adebayo
adebayo.akinade@frieslandcampina.com
ILRI-CTA African Dairy Value Chain Seminar, Nairobi, Kenya, 21-24
September 2014

2. Nigeria Raw Milk Situation
 Estimated number of Cattle heads is 16 million
 About 95% of the cattle heads are local indigenous breeds mostly
multi-purpose animals that produce meat, milk, draft, manure in
constrained environments.
 Over 60% owned by nomadic (or mobile) Fulani herders
 Average milk supply per cow is < 2 litres/day due to several
factors
 Very few (< 20) intensive dairy farms and these farms are
generally not well managed – low profitability
 Imported milk powder accounts for around 75 % of raw materials
used by Nigeria’s dairy industry to process dairy products

3. Strategy - Development
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1. Collaboration of FrieslandCampina WAMCO (FCW) with
Federal Ministry of Agriculture & International Fertilizer
Development Centre (IFDC)-2SCALE project
2. Establish good PROFILE of FCW Dairy Development
Programme (DDP)
3. Build Milk Bulking Centre in Oyo Iseyin, Oyo state.
4. Organize small holders, dairy farmers (grouping) and
develop farmers’ capacity
5. Support established farms to achieve better quality of
supplies – example Shonga Dairies
6. Focus on farm economic (reduce cost) and management:
Create long term dairy farming sustainability and make
milk price competitive

4. Strategy – Fresh milk intake
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1. Create and safeguard farm milk quality, efficient collection
& transport chain.
2. Provide Bulk tankers for milk transportation to factory
3. Supply fresh milk to factory inline with requirements and
growth
4. Carry out modification of Company facilities and processes
to accommodate fresh milk intake in line with growth
5. Encourage product development involving the use of fresh
milk
6. Include fresh milk intake in Master Plan

5. Strategy – Quality
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1. Establish improvement programs to achieve quality
standards that conform to our corporate quality standard
2. Focus on Food Safety from farm level- from grass to glass
approach.
3. Link quality and food safety as terms/conditions in raw milk
supply contract.
4. Link milk price with milk quality – provide incentives for
good quality

6. Dairy Development Program(DDP) Activities
• Mobilization and training of potential raw milk suppliers
• Training of extension agents from the Ministry of Agriculture
to support in DDP training for farmers
• Construction of solar powered boreholes in over 12 locations to aid milk
hygiene and as part of corporate social responsibilities
• Working together with Nigeria Institute of Trypanosomiasis and
Onchocerciasis Research, Kaduna to control tsetse flies/trypanosomiasis
in DDP operational areas.
• Milk collection started in 2011
• Currently operating in 5 collection centres while we plan to roll out to
other locations

7. DDP Expectations
• The target is to collect 10% which amounts to 150,000 litres per
day by 2016
• The plan is to achieve a TPC of less than 300,000 cfu/ml by
December, 2016
• Fat and Total solids baselines are 4% and 12% respectively
• Milk volume per cow should attain an average of 10 litres per cow
• Small holder dairy where indigenous dairy farmers with few but
highly productive cows to be encouraged
• Good dairy farming to be employed at all levels
• Quality parameters to be measured and monitored from grass to
glass.
• Farm economics and profitability to be given high priority
• Animal health and disease prevention/control to also be of main
concern

8. Thank You.
Akinade Samson
Adebayo