Ethiopia: Ministry plans to produce 9.8 billion liters of milk this year

Camel Milk

Published Nov 2, 2023

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The Ministry of Agriculture in Ethiopia aims to produce 9.8 billion liters of milk in the 2023/24 fiscal year from cattle, camels, and goats. However, despite an increase in milk production, the demand from society is difficult to meet and there is a significant gap between production and demand. The government is investing in improving breeding, ensuring safe fodder, and creating awareness among farmers to address the issues with milk production.

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Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) disclosed that it has planned to produce 9.8 billion liters of milk in 2023/24 fiscal year out of cattle, camel and goat milk. MoA's Livestock and Fishery Resource Team Leader Lema Gemeda told the Ethiopia Press Agency said that the Ministry has set to attain 9.8 billion liters of milk in this fiscal year. "In order to achieve the plan we are working on problem solving strategies such as improving breed cattle, ensuring safe fodder and improving marketing linkage, awareness creation would also be applied in relation to how to feed cattle, what kind of Fodder should be used and other related tasks. Although the volume of milk production has increased as per annual consumption, it is hard to quench the demand coming from the society, and the nation could hardly meet the need," Lema added. Supporting the above idea, MoA's Livestock and Fishery Resource Expert Segni Chemeda stated that the volume of milk production is annuallyincreasing,a wide gap has ...

Source: All Africa