Our consultancy branch The Friesian conducted a training program for small-scale and medium-scale dairy farmers in Mongolia, commissioned by a large global bank. In the beginning of September part two of this trainings project started. The topic of this training...
Last month a group of Kenyan dairy farmers was trained in the Netherlands. Dairy Training Centre provided trainings at the Dairy Campus and their training facilities in Oenkerk. The Kenyan farmers visited several farms ánd stayed at host farms in Friesland. At the...
At the end of August, Bles Dairies East Africa imported high quality heifers from the Netherlands. This heifers were purchased on demand by farmers in Kenya and in Uganda. Also four heifers will be shown at the Eldoret Agricultural Business Fair. This show and fair...
One of our experts is in Indonesia for the provision of follow-up trainings. These trainings are given on a quarterly basis and form part of a 5-year dairy development project. The courses cover all dairy related topics and the final objective is to increase the...
The Friesian, Bles Dairies’ consultancy discipline, is partner in the TIDE project (The inclusive Dairy Enterprise project) in Uganda. The project has four main activities and one of these activities is the introduction of a Quality Based Milk Payment System (QBMPS)....
Our consultancy division The Friesian drew up a cattle crossbreeding proposal with white Fulani cows in Nigeria last year. This is part of a 3-year dairy development program which was set up per request of a major international dairy processor. The project aims to...
Our expert Anne travelled to Romania per request of Dairy Training Centre (DTC). DTC is the training center for dairy farming and milk processing, headquartered in Leeuwarden. DTC conducts both national as international training programs, alongside the implementation...
Recently Martin de Jong, technical director of our consultancy division The Friesian, visited Uganda to develop for one of Uganda’s leading milk processing companies a strategy for the establishment of a dairy farmers extension team with the aim to double raw milk...
Bles Dairies’ consultancy division The Friesian has a long history of working in Greece for suppliers of a dairy processor. This long-term project aims to optimize the farmers results and to increase the milk flow to the factory. For more than 5 years technical...
Our specialist Ben brought a visit to a large scale farm in Azerbaijan. In 2012/2013 this farm was set up as part of a turn key project realized by our consultancy branch The Friesian. The project included a feasibility study, design, construction and management of a...
Our consultancy division The Friesian is involved as partner in a 5 year dairy development project: “Development of sustainable dairy farming in Vietnam”. Our input includes the provision of trainings on a quarterly basis. Two weeks ago, our expert Martin undertook a...
Rabobank and Bles Dairies participated in the Partnership Elections 2017. With a sustainable business case they battled to achieve the title of “Best New Partnership”. And good news for Team Rabobank: we won the elections! Team Rabobank introduced an idea for a...