MAZIW
A ZAIDI
More Milk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) Project
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Soko la Uhakika ni Mali
Faida Mali Progress Report
Nisefori Mkwama,
Maziwa Zaidi & Steering Committee workshop, 8-
10 October 2014 at Giraffe Ocean View Hotel,
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Implementation progress: Project
Highlights.
Presentation outline
 Introduction
 Achievements
 Challenges
 Lessons learnt
 Next steps

Objective
 Develop scalable value chains
approaches with improve organizations
and institutions serving smallholder male
and female households.

Output:
 Vibrant, well organized and sustainable
DMHs delivering demand – led inputs
and services developed.

TNA and SSP Methodology
 Participatory approach
 Tool prepared and shared – IRLI,FM &
HPT
 Primary and Secondary data collection.
 Focused group discussion, brainstorming,
observation, questions and answers.
 Individual interviews.

Achievements:
 TNA done in 14 (47%) out
of 30 villages.
 554 (Fe -229 – 41.3%) and
325 men (58.7%)
interviewed.
 Challenges, opportunities
and capacity needs
identified.
 Site specific plans conducted
to all 30 project groups
/coops and their needs
ranked and prioritized.

Challenges
Cattle keepers
 Absence of well developed dairy business
hub model .
 Inadequate artificial insemination and
associated high cost.
 Low and high seasonal milk production.
 Inadequate organizational, technical,
business and marketing skills.

Challenges contin….
Cattle keepers Cont…..
 Inadequate good governance practices.
 Unfavorable weather condition.
 Poor milk quality control and hygiene.
 Unreliable markets and default payment
to producers.

Challenges Cont…
Cattle keepers Cont…..
 Inbreeding of cattle due low knowledge
and lack/inefficient breeding services.
 Inadequate information on existing
financial opportunities and other sources
of investment capital.

Challenges Cont…
Input suppliers
• Inadequate skills in inputs handling,
technical advise, storage facilities and drugs
application.
• Presence of substandard dairy farm inputs
in the market.

Challenges Cont…
Input suppliers
Poor road network from the milk producers
to the consumers (town) mainly in the rainy
season.
 No formalized businesses between milk
producers and the service providers.

Challenges Cont…
Input suppliers
 Unreliable power supply resulting to problems to
stock specific drugs e.g. vaccines.
 High costs of inputs, vaccines and drugs (e.g. ant-
ECF drugs) which is hardly affordable by most small
holder dairy cattle keepers.
 Inadequate investment capital due to lack of ideal
collateral or legality on their business operations.

Challenges Cont…
Milk Vendors
Inadequate business skills in the milk
subsector.
Late or sometimes default payment to
vendors and hence the milk producers.
Unreliable milk transport and storage
facilities.

Challenges Cont…
Milk Vendors Cont…..
 Poor road networks and unreliable
transport.
 Use of un-standardized weights and
measures in the milk purchase business
which is not fair producers.

Challenges
LGAs
 Inadequate skills in dairy sub sector.
 Inadequate transport facilities for effective
service provision.
 Not tapping into the existing opportunity
in milk revenues as sources of LGAs
income.

Challenges Cont…
Financial institutions
 Inadequate information of dairy cattle
keepers’ financial needs.
 Low trust and confidence on credit
worthiness to dairy cattle keepers.
 No specific banks for small scale Agri-producers
to date.

Lessons learnt
 TNA and SSP revealed
precise information for
implementing partners
for optimum services
provision.
 Dairy keepers showed
indication of owning the
dairy keeping process.
 There is high potential for
B2B to operate.

Next steps Cont…
FM
 Continue implementation of the approved work plan.
 Dairy farming as business training for cattle eepers is
on going in the field.
 So far training has been done in: Lushoto – Lwandai,
Ubiri, Kwemashai, Mbuzii, Viti, Mwangoi and Ngulwi
villages.(Total participants: Ma 163 and fe 99)
 Training will continue in Mvomero, Kilosa and Handeni
Districts.
 Promotion and operationalization of check off system
and B2B.

Next steps Cont…
Access to finance
 Sensitize and mobilize individual internal
resources as sources of capital.
 Continue mentoring and coaching of B2B –
July – October, 2015 .

Next steps Cont…
LGAs
 Make follow up to curb the alleged milk
measurement rigging and fake farm inputs
in the market.

More Milk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) Project
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