Improve Dairy extension services for farmers on quality milk production and animal health care Focus on youth Entrepreneurship in dairy (Youth movement in dairy reduced antibiotic use/organic farming )

1. Ways to Improve Social Entrepreneurship
For Dairy Farming :
the Case of Ethiopia
International Symposium on Green solution for Antibiotic Use,
Natural Livestock Farming Network
The Netherlands, Amsterdam October 03 2015
Daniel Temesgen Gelan (PhD)
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2. Current Facts in Ethiopian Dairy
 Smallholders contributes 98%
 Commercial dairy farms 2%
 Indigenous cattle breed produce 97% of the milk
 3% from improved exotic crosses and pure breed
cattle.
 Limited study on antibiotic residue in milk (it is
small in use scale) there is weak control system
in place
 The informal marketing is the major practice of
farmers
 Small portion of milk production reaches the
formal market (about 7%)
 Imports of dairy products are increasing: 300%
increase in value between 2001 -2010
 Enhancing marketing ,developing infrastructure
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3. Opportunities dairy development in Ethiopia
 Favorable physical conditions for dairy
 Policy focus to significantly increase per capita milk consumption and improve the food security and
nutrition
 Role private sector in economic growth
 Growing demand and Income growth with population growth and urbanization
 Attracting foreign and local investment on dairy (Dutch companies are on forefront)
Antibiotic use in Business as usual scenario:
 More number of commercial and small scale family dairy farms push more milk production
 There will results in increasing use of antibiotics coupled with inadequate surveillance capacity
 Emergence of antimicrobial resistance will be more (already human antibiotic resistance is more concerns)
 With major consequences of resistance include increased mortality, costs of treatment, and loss of
production in animals
(Developing our New knowledge of how to utilize our Ethio- veterinary experiences )
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4. What is needed for improve social Entrepreneurship in Dairy
farming
Good economic prospects for chain actors
 Production: Low cost price requires: reliable market; attractive price; more & better feed; more &
better animals; input supply & services; management skills
 Efficient collection, processing & marketing: quality control, product diversification; promotion of
consumption
Good enabling environment
 government policies - level of protection, and support
 support from research, education and extension
 coordination in value chain
  1 (economic prospects) + 2 (enabling environment) = good business prospects
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5. Ways to improve policy and institutional environment
 Improve Dairy extension services for farmers on quality milk production and
animal health care
 Create awareness among the consumers on quality of milk
 Asses willingness to pay and Improve milk consumption by expanding milk
marketing
 Creating and strengthening knowledge and policy platforms on milk quality
 Empower women to be involved in quality milk production, processing and
marketing
 Focus on youth Entrepreneurship in dairy (Youth movement in dairy reduced
antibiotic use/organic farming )
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6. Why Youth? Change agent and strong social force
 Youth the highest and fastest growing proportion of population (50%) under 30 years of age
 About 80 % lives in rural areas about 65% employed in agriculture
 Youth potential behavior of Adoption of new technologies and ideas, tend to take more risks
 they are more likely to challenge norms that may be hindering development
Support :
 Addresses youth land ,financial , and skill issues
 Active participation and Supplementing to play leadership role
 Facilitation on Youth Communication,
 linkage and Networking for learning and exchange
 Develop youth capacity in critical areas of priority livestock technology
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7. Ways to improve policy and institutional environment
 Improve Cooperative/Union membership / for the development of the sector through
commercialization as well as providing essential inputs.
 Promoting dairy cooperatives keeping local breeds
 Working to ward Establishing of Dairy Board’ - to assure a proper lead and coordination of the
sector’s development
 Advocating fro Removal of hindrances for dairy investments (land ,Water and electricity supply and
credit ,improve incentives)
 Capacity building standard quality control laboratory mandatory certification and inspection service
 The introduction of a quality based milk payment (QBMP) system
 (learning from Netherlands could provide knowledge support and organizational capacity building .
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8. Thank you
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