Tetra Pak Eastern Africa, a leading packaging company, is investing 300 million Kenyan shillings ($4.67 million) to upgrade its East Africa plant. The company's managing director Anders Lindgren s...

The National Lucerne Organization have just announced the establishment of the first online lucerne trading facility for South Africa. For the first time now, lucerne producers will be able to sell lu...

Heading into the festive season Parmalat launched a cheese processing plant that will enable the company to begin manufacturing cheese in Zambia. The factory was officially opened on 28th November 200...

   Eastern Dairies unites cooperatives and improves marketUSDA jump-starts new business through Food for Progress programEighteen months ago, 11 primary dairy cooperatives in Easte...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa will hold a round table meeting with the leading regional agricultural trade association. The Eastern and Southern Africa Dairy Association (ESADA) ...

Shambani graduate enterprise (SGE), a mini dairy co-owned by three university graduates, won Tshs. 12 million in the business in development (BiD) challenge. "It came as a surprise to us. We ...

The Regional Consultative Meeting on Harmonization of Dairy Standards was held at the COMESA Secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1st to 5th October 2007, under the auspices of COMESA with the partic...

As a result of the post-election violence in Kenya, the dairy sector has been severely hit. The effect has come at a time when the country's milk production is on the decline occasioned by ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 25, 2008 – Heifer International today announced a four-year $42.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund a project to help poor rural farmers ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $306 million package of agricultural development grants designed to boost the yields and incomes of millions of small farmers in Africa and ot...

The Eastern and Southern Africa Dairy Association (ESADA) is pleased to announce the admission of the Milk Producers Organisation of South Africa (MPOSA). MPOSA brings the ESADA chapters to eight (8) ...

The Eastern and Southern Africa Dairy Association (ESADA) has signed an MOU with the livestock breeders association outlining the modus operandi for the running of the 4th African Dairy Exhibition and...

Tanzania Milk Processors Association (TAMPA) is in the process of establishing a Saving and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCOS). The move behind the SACCOS is to pool resources to help TAMPA members a...

The ban on plastic is expected to boost revenues of local packaging firms.Tetra Pak East Africa and Pan Africa Paper Mills are already expanding production to meet increasing demand for alternative pa...

Comesa endorses Uganda milk exports  By JOSEPH MITI KAMPALA UGANDA'S dairy farmers have reason to smile after Uganda's dairy products were cleared to be exported to the Common Market ...

News Clippings 3/27/2007     San Francisco Chronicle Got rBST In Your Milk? by: George Raine Richard Cotta, CEO of California Da...

New Era (Windhoek) NEWS March 28, 2007 Posted to the web March 28, 2007 By Wezi Tjaronda Windhoek Namibia Dairies says it is monitoring the milk shortage in South Africa although it does not p...

IDF World Dairy Summit - Looking abroad January 2007 The examination of various types of da...

Story by MUCHIRI GITONGA Publication Date: 3/19/2007 Milk processors have been challenged to come together and work out a structure to promote local milk consumption. Livestock and F...

  Written by Zeddy Sambu Retail milk prices are set to stabilise after the G...

By Mary Karugaba ABOUT 80,000 litres of milk are thrown away daily in western Uganda, dairy farmers have said. Presenting their memorandum to Parliament’s finance committee on Wednesday, the fa...

Stakeholders in the struggling dairy industry now want Countries under the Common Market for East and Central Africa (Comesa) and the East African community (EAC) to consider eliminating existing impo...