MAZIWA More Milk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) Project
ZAIDI
Implementation progress: Establishment and operation of
dairy market hubs
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.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Group development:
• Project Introduction to district
Team Management in all four
project district areas.
• Group mobilization to cattle
keepers farmers were done to
all
30
project
villages
identified.
• 30 groups of cattle keepers
has
formed,
elected
leadership, developed their
group constitution.
Achievements Cont…
Group development:
• 20 groups registered 3 as
Cooperatives and 17 as
Community
Based
Organization, 10 groups are
in the process of registration.
• Group
members
were
supported with 880 pcs. of
training manuals of Livestock
dairy management from
Heifer.
Achievements Cont…
Training Needs Assessment:
• Training Needs Assessment done
to 14 sampled groups.
• TNA done in 14 (47%) out of
30 villages.
• 554 (Fe -229 – 41.3%) and 325
men (58.7%) interviewed.
• Capacity needs identified.
• Challenges and opportunities
identified.
Challenges
Cattle keepers
• Kambala in Mvomero district was
not revisited due to the prevailing
land conflict between pastoralists
and farmers.
• Higher expectation of farmers on
the project with regards to
receiving direct tangible benefits
like heifers, bulls, milk collection
tanks and new milk traders.
Challenges Cont…
Cattle keepers:
• Some of smallholder farmers
who were interested to join
the groups but limited
because they lacked cattle/
animals of their own.
• Low training capacity on
group
Leadership,
Management
and
Development in most of the
groups visited.
Challenges Cont…
Cattle keepers:
• Poor involvement of women in
group meetings and leadership
positions.
• Some groups in Kilosa and
Mvomero
districts
facing
challenge in the process of
group registration.
• Inadequate knowledge and
mindset change.
Challenges Cont…
Cattle keepers from TNA
• No structured Business Linkages so
far.
• Poor Quality and high cost of the
Artificial Insemination services.
• Seasonal milk production due to
unfavorable weather condition.
• Poor organizational, leadership and
markets linkages.
• Poor milk quality control and hygiene.
Challenges Cont…
 Cattle keepers from TNA
• Inadequate bulking of milk due to
higher prices offered outside.
• Unequal distribution of income from
economic resources.
• Low capital invested in milk subsector.
• Inbreeding of cattle.
• Inadequate information on existing
financial opportunities.
Challenges Cont…
 Input suppliers from TNA
• Inadequate skills and experiences in inputs
handling, technical advise, storage facilities and
drugs application.
• 12 out of 14 not legally registered.
• Poor road network from the milk producers to
the consumers (town) mainly in the rainy season.
• Presence of substandard dairy inputs.
Challenges Cont…
 Input suppliers from TNA:
• Unreliable electrical power supply which leads to
almost impossible to stock specific drugs e.g.
vaccines.
• High costs of inputs e.g. vaccines and drugs (e.g.
Butalex) which is hardly affordable by most cattle
keepers.
• Inadequate investment capital.
Challenges Cont…
 Milk Vendors from TNA:
• Inadequate business skills in the milk subsector.
• Unattractive milk price during wet season, stiff
competition during dry season.
• Late or sometimes default payment to vendors.
• Unreliable milk transport and storage facilities
due to low capital investment.
Challenges Cont…
 Milk Vendors from TNA:
• Poor road networks and unreliable transport.
• Inadequate business skills in price setting and
negotiation.
• Use of un-standardized weights and measures in
the business.
Challenges Cont…
 LGAs extension field staff from TNA:
• Inadequate skills in dairy sub sector.
• Inadequate transport facilities for effective
service provision.
• Inability to tap into milk revenues opportunity as
sources of LGAs income.
Challenges Cont…
 Financial institutions from TNA:
• Inadequate information
financial needs.
of
cattle
keepers’
• Low trust and confidence on credit worthiness to
cattle keepers.
• No specific banks for small scale Agri-producers.
Lessons learnt
Group Development:
• Beneficiaries are ready and show
willingness of coming together to
solve their prevailing development
challenges.
• Involvement of respective district
Community
Development
Departments in the project has
made them work closer with
groups which in long run will
ensure group sustainability.
Lessons learnt Cont…
Group Development:
• Beneficiaries
are
quite
anxious to solve their
challenges in their localities,
all what they need is to get
timely intervention from the
project planned activities.
Lessons learnt Cont…
Training Needs Assessment:
• More information for implementing partners is
required for optimum services provision.
• Unresolved land disputes between farmers and
livestock keepers might pose threat to project
implementation in some locations.
• Cattle keepers showed indication of owning the
improved dairy cattle.
• There is high potential for B2B to work in the
project area.
Next steps
Heifer:
• Follow up to groups which are
not yet registered and advice
on the best measure to move
forward.
• Group development trainings
will be conducted to specific
group based on the identified
training needs.
Next steps Cont…
 Faida Mali
• Present and validate TNA findings and develop
capacity building (CB) plan.
• Develop appropriate business models.
• Development of bankable business plans for BDS
providers.
• Facilitate negotiation between different actors
through business-to-business (B2B) to reinforce
training on dairy as a business.
• Make follow-up visits to concretize deals and
organize service delivery systems.
• Participate in monitoring, learning and evaluation
(MLE) and project review meetings.
Next steps Cont…
Other emerging needs from Faida Mali:
 Market and market information needs
• Training on cost benefit analysis to various
interest groups.
• Training on contracting arrangements between
buyers and groups/cooperatives (B2B).
• Conduct Participatory Market Research.
• Train value chain players on market information,
market intelligence and establish linkage to
market information.
Next steps Cont…
Faida Mali:
 Access to finance
• Sensitize and mobilize individual internal
resources as sources of capital.
• Continue mentoring and coaching of B2B.
Technical needs;
 Groups/cooperatives.
• Train groups/cooperatives on milk value addition
technology to address excess milk during wet
season.
Next steps Cont…
• Train groups on pasture development and
fodder storage.
• Mainstream gender, youth and environment
issues in the project.
Next steps Cont…
Vendors
• Train milk vendors on entrepreneurship skills.
• Training to prepare bankable business plan
and link them to financial institutions.
• Training on milk hygiene and handling.
Next steps Cont…
 LGAs extension
• Conduct various refresher courses to LGA
extension staff in the project locations.
• To curb improper milk measurement, rigging
and sub-standard farm inputs in the market.
Next steps Cont…
Input suppliers
• Train input suppliers on the importance of business
registration and facilitate registration.
• Train to recognize substandard and genuine quality
inputs.
• Facilitate formation of input suppliers consortium.
• Organize at the market place event to include all
interest groups.
• Train them on customer care and other business
development services.
• Train on how to prepare bankable business plan and
link to financial institutions.
Improving quality assurance services and
communication in Mvomero, Kilosa,
Lushoto and Handeni
The purpose of the project
To establish and improve a quality assurance
system through training and certification of
informal milk traders involving
Business
Development Services provider (BDS)
Increase
communication
stakeholders
among
dairy
Achievements
1. Awareness creation and mobilization key
dairy stakeholders
• Further identification of potential milk traders ,
service providers
• Identification of eight milk collection hubs
Lushoto Township, Bumbuli, Mlalo in Lushoto; Handeni town ship
in Handeni, Dumila and Dakawa in Mvomero and Kimamba and Kilosa
township in Kilosa.
Potential Milk traders identified
1.
District
Collection centres/Hubs
No. Milk Trader
Lushoto
5
94
2.
Handeni
3.
Mvomero
]
2
16
42
160
Potential Service providers
District
Mvomero
Handeni
Lushoto
Name
of
Service
Providers
6
4
4
14
Location
Nature
of
operation
Retail Shop Turiani
Retail shop Handeni
Retail
Lushoto,
Soni, Mombo
Achievements Cont…
Guidelines for quality assurance improved
Inspection manual for Dairy Farm.
Inspection Manual for Milk Cooling, Collection
and Bulk Transport.
Inspection Manual for Milk Kiosk, Bars and
Cottage mini dairies.
Code of Hygiene Practice for Milk Retailing and
Kiosk.
Achievements Cont….
Increase communication among dairy stakeholders
• Facilitated Dairy Genetic working group
– To identify systemic bottlenecks in dairy genetics.
– Clarify actors expectations.
– What needs to be done to make the system work.
– Business models.
Achievements Cont…
• Facilitated
third
Forum(DDF)
Dairy
Development
Filling gaps in dairy technology and agribusiness
skills
Strategies for expanding the national dairy herd
Business solutions for year round availability of
quality feeds.
• Formed task force to work on the emerged
issues around dairy genetics, feeds and
technology.
Achievements Cont…
Task force
1.Heifer/bull/semen production
2.AI field delivery
3.Recording registration system
4. Farmer organizations
5. Policy and Régulations
6.Platform Development and leadership
Challenges
• Synchronization of partners activities delayed
project implementation.
• Emerging issues from the Dairy Development
Forum (DDF) required additional funding.
• Some of farmers expectations (such as heifers,
milk collection equipment, cans, fodder seeds,
etc) not to be addressed by the project.
Way Forward
• To continue working on development of
guidelines to address milk quality (Code of
hygiene in milk production, bulking and
transportation, dairy processing).
• Induction
and
accreditation of service
providers on milk quality issues (business
orientation would obtained from FAIDAMALI).
• Forum.
Way Forward Cont….
• Design training to Milk traders as per Training
Needs Assessment (TNA) findings.
• Training and certification of milk traders
(formed groups, formed Hubs).
• Continue facilitating Task Force formed in
Dairy Development Forum (DDF)
END
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ASANTENI SANA!