Arla Foods boosts local sector with commercial dairy farm in Kaduna

The commercial dairy farm currently sits on 200 hectares of land acquired in Damau, Kaduna ArlaFoods Nigeria Food

This is aligned and in conjunction with the Central Bank’s policy and efforts to reduce importation of dairy products and encourage backward integration in agriculture.

Arla Foods has since partnered with the Kaduna State Government and MILCOPAL Nigeria Limited, a dairy farmer cooperative in Kaduna State, and commenced offtake of milk from over 400 local pastoralist farmers and counting, renovated and operationalized the Kaduna State dairy, and commenced production and sale of local dairy products for the Nigeria market.

The commercial dairy farm currently sits on 200 hectares of land acquired in Damau, Kaduna, with planned feed and grassland development of locally-sourced Bracharia and Napier grass seeds, split into 150 hectares of grassland for grazing, silage and hay production, 25 hectares for protein crop production and 25Ha irrigated land for fresh feed all year around. Land clearing and fencing has been completed and grassland establishment is currently in progress.

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