The dairy sector in East Africa is transforming rapidly to keep up with growing domestic demand. In recent years, Dutch and East African partners worked together on a range of challenges in dairy, from farm productivity to consumption and from business development to...
Senior Consultant Anne Terpstra went to Kenya last month, visiting our department Bles Dairies East Africa. In this short summary, you can read more about his activities and findings. “In coordination with local advisors Titus Maiyo and Charity Kurui I visited several...
Six Dutch dairy farms are going to undertake joint activities to raise the level of milk production in Uganda. At the same time, they try to expand their own market. Financial support from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) helps the cluster with this project....
Een half jaar werkt Bles Dairies nu samen met vooruitstrevende Nederlandse melkveehouders. Tijdens de kennismakingsgesprekken komt een duidelijke behoefte aan onafhankelijk advies naar voren. Met een team van (onafhankelijke) specialisten op het gebied van o.a....
Bles Dairies supports the development of a sustainable dairy sector in Vietnam through the Dairy4Growth project. By improving the farmers’ skills and knowledge and by ameliorating their socio-economic livelihood, they aim to produce sustainable dairy products that...
More and more investors worldwide are interested in acquiring agricultural assets such as farmland. Essential for the investor is of course the performance in terms of productivity of the operations, to improve profitability. The selection and installation of a...
Last January, Member of the European Parliament Jan Huitema gave a presentation during the Bles Dairies New Year Event at the Frisian Agricultural Museum. He emphasized that the Netherlands is frontrunner within the global agricultural sector and that the Dutch play...
Bles Dairies has been active in consultancy activities in East Africa for many years. To service customers in East Africa from short distance and in every aspect of the dairy value chain, we established in 2016 Bles Dairies East Africa Ltd. Headquartered out of...
Bles Dairies Consultancy is a well-known expert within the dairy sector, ranging from small scale – <10 cows – to large-scale dairy farming i.e. > 3000 cows. Our consultants have a large, combined work experience in more than 40 countries worldwide. In addition...
This week, Martin de Jong and Dirk Harting attended a seminar in Nairobi that addressed the subject of Milk Quality & Food Safety. More than hundred representatives of the whole dairy value chain participated in this seminar, which was organised by SNV Netherlands...
Bles Dairies East Africa entered into a partnership with Chepseon Dairies in Kericho, Kenya, starting a project with the goal to transfer practical dairy knowledge to local dairy farmers in East Africa. In order to improve the milk production and so the income of the...
The IFC/WB* financed Dairy Supply Chain Development Project in Punjab, Pakistan, which started in 2015 will conclude at the end of 2018. In cooperation with VeteffecT and Solve Agri Pak, Bles Dairies Consultancy has trained in total 50 Dairy Development Executives...