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Dairy Manufacturers Seeking Policy Mix To Boost Nigeria’s Over 100 Million Litres of Milk Needs

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Dairy manufacturers in Nigeria are requesting the government to put in place a policy mix that will allows them to be importing some of the raw materials while developing the sector through backward integration.

Ben Langat, the Managing Director of FrieslandCampina WAMCO Plc, spoke the minds of the industry’s operators, during a media chat.

” To be able to meet the total dairy nutrition demands in Nigeria, the local milk currently available is still very much inadequate.

So, in my opinion, the model that the country will run will still have a reasonable mix of importation of some of the raw materials, while local content is developed over a period,” he said .

Again, he said : We don’t produce the required machinery locally nor do we produce all raw materials locally; so there will always be something that needs to be imported.
From a milk production point of view, Nigeria has a hot, humid environment which typically is very good for beef cattle and that is why you see a lot of the Fulani cows doing very well.

To grow high milk-yielding cows, you have to put in extra effort and this is what we have been doing for many years. For over 12 years, FrieslandCampina WAMCO has continued to invest in the Nigerian dairy sector as it has been sourcing raw milk locally for manufacturing.

We are also the highest off-taker of fresh milk produced locally from five states in Nigeria (Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, and Kwara States and also in the north).”

He said that that some of the company’s products are 100 percent locally sourced, however, in terms of the dairy nutrition needs of the country, local milk sourcing is still at a very low level.

” It’s such a big task that we have ahead of us as a nation. That notwithstanding, at FrieslandCampina WAMCO, we want to prove that it is doable, as we source about five million litres of milk per annum locally today. We are the highest so far as no other organisation has reached that number.

Nevertheless, we’re talking about a country that requires more than 100 million litres of milk, so when you do the calculations, you would see that the percentages are still low. There is still a long way to go.
Countries like Kenya and South Africa started local dairy development way back and they have continued on that journey. Nigeria kind of left this topic for a long time and that is why we are still in this phase of backward integration.

He urges the newly inaugurated government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to, consult FrieslandCampina WAMCO on dairy development topics, asserting ” we are a subject matter expert on local milk sourcing and knowledge transfer.

They can engage us on some of these topics leveraging forums like MAN – Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, NECA -Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association as well as the Food and Beverage Associations, and AFBTE, among others.
We are there as industry leaders. Let them consult us before taking sharp policy decisions,” he said.

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