Notes+on+Amos+presentation

Highlights - Irish Aid project is funded for 1 year initially. Year 1 will focus on dairy value chain assessment and developing a strategy for influencing policy. Also presented broader 5-year objectives. - Most milk in Tanzania is sold to neighbours - 86% - EADD in Uganda focused on chilling plant model. In Tanzania, there has been a reduction in milk processing over the last 15 years. This indicates that chilling plants have been introduced where they were not needed. - Amos presents ideas about arranging a check-off scheme without the need for a chilling plant. - Shares experiences about Kenya experience where there were attempts to regulate informal sector for food safety reasons when not really necessary since consumers tend to boil milk anyway. - In Morogoro Stakeholder meeting plans were developed for the Tanzania Dairy Development Forum. This will help to co-ordinate the various dairy development initiatives that are ongoing.

Questions.

- In India, producers sell some milk to co-operatives but also sell some for ready cash to neighbours. Does this happen also in Tz? Yes, beginning to.