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Updated: June 04, 2023

FrieslandCampina To Buy Local Milk Worth N3 Billion

By Felicia Abisola Olamiji
June 04, 2023
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FrieslandCampina WAMCO has revealed that it is setting aside over N3 billion to buy milk produced by farmers in Nigeria this year.

The company spent about N2 billion for five million liters of milk produced locally in 2022 as part of its dairy development initiative.

Speaking during a coordinated tour of its farm by journalists at its development farm projects in Iseyin in Ondo State, Milk Collection manager at the company’s Milk Collection Center (MCC) in Maya, Balogun Kayode, said the centre during peak period handles 10,000 liters of milk collection a day.

According to him, the company’s dairy development activities focuses on working with pastoralists, small holder dairy farmers and commercial farmers.

The programme aims at making dairy farming more attractive to the next generation of farmers, thereby making the sector more sustainable and curbing incessant farmer-herder violence.