PROJECT
MULTI-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION POJECT
Livelihoods Mount Elgon Project Kenya
Funding: €230,000
Locations: Mount Elgon Ecosystem
Sustainable Agriculture Land Management (SALM), Dairy Value Chain Support in Mount Elgon Ecosystem, Kenya
Duration: March 2016 –February 2019
Project Objective:
Livelihood Ventures, VI-Agroforestry, Brookside Dairies Ltd and EAMDA implemented a sustainable agriculture land managed (SALM) based dairy value chain project in Kenya’s Mount Elgon Ecosystem. Project goal was to accumulate high quality carbon credits, amounting to 1 million tonnes within a 10-year period, for its investors through this dairy project’s implementation. Brookside Dairy Ltd., being the largest dairy operation in East Africa presents the market access vital for the project with the company seeking to access 150,000 litres of milk per day from the project’s farmers.
Project Activities
- Promotion of artificial insemination (AI) to improve herd genetics; animal health care; zero grazing technologies; fodder establishment and conservation; clean milk production and marketing.
- Sensitizing the new and existing dairy farmer beneficiaries on the need for aggregation and formation of farmer owned milk supply points and groups.
- Introduction of the use of milk collecting hubs (hub model) for better market access, milk quality preservation and the overall benefit of improved dairy farming systems for increased productivity,
- Partnering with lead farmers facilitate and organize farmer field days with both public and private sector players to show and train farmers on yield enhancing technologies in feeding and breeding.
- Support farmer groups in hub services development and improve access to dairy related services through small and medium service providers to provide services at competitive prices.
- Increasing adoption of yield enhancing technologies, improved milk handling practices and better animal husbandry.
- Put in place management systems and governance structures in the milk chilling hubs.
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