• Fonterra has a diverse range of milk collection initiatives focused on reducing the kilometres travelled by our milk tankers.
• This includes investing in more fuel and emissions efficient tankers and moving milk transport from road to rail.

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Die "VDM-Sachkunde für den Milchsammelwagenfahrer" wurde überarbeitet und an die aktuellen Anforderungen angepaßt, um eine einheitliche Grundlage für die Schulungsmaßnahmen in den Bundesländern zu schaffen. Daran waren sowohl Vertreter der Landwirtschaft, der Molkereien, der Landeskontrollverbände bzw. Milchprüfringe als auch der Landesvereinigungen und Lehranstalten beteiligt. Mit dieser Sachkunde wurde zum einen für den Milchsammelwagenfahrer und zum anderen für dessen Unterweisung eine praxisnahe Grundlage erarbeitet. Gleichzeitig wird damit der Dialog zwischen den Erzeugern, Fahrern, Kontrollverbänden und Molkereien gefördert.

Reducing transport emissions:

• Optimisation of transportation systems – use of GPS route selection and dispatch technology
• Use of rail (road use reduced by 45,000 tanker movements over 20 year period, saving 3000 tonnes of CO2 per year)
• Upgrading warehouses to make storage and transport more efficient
• Milk concentration plants (reverse osmosis plants)
• Euro Four milk tankers
• Tanker fleet reduction: from 480 to 408 between 2005 and 2009

Among the ten most operational milk collection centers (MCCs) supported by Land O’Lakes, more than $2.5 million has already ended up in the pockets of smallholder dairy farmers.

These same ten MCCs have sold more than $2.8 million of milk to processors, and the volume continues to increase - 55 percent in 2008 alone! As impressive as these results are, milk sold to MCCs represents only about 40 percent of the total sold/bartered by these households.

See the attached picture for the project's details.

• En esta región lleva adelante sus actividades desde hace 9 años un proyecto financiado por la cooperación de Suecia y ejecutado en conjunto con el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Forestal (MAGFOR), denominado FondeAgro, que entre otros objetivos apunta a la promoción del desarrollo ganadero y lechero de la zona central de Nicaragua.
• La estrategia de intervención de FondeAgro se realiza mediante componentes de asistencia técnica, apoyo financiero, economía de patio, desarrollo institucional y agronegocios. Precisamente, a través de este último componente, el proyecto ha promovido la instalación de una red de centros de recolección y enfriamiento de leche, como elemento complementario para la obtención de leche de calidad que pueda abastecer la demanda de las plantas que operan en otras regiones de Nicaragua.
• Los centros de recolección y enfriamiento de leche se han organizado bajo la forma jurídica de cooperativas, destacándose entre ellas la experiencia de NICACENTRO, con sede en la localidad de Matiguás, y que aglutina la operación de 7 centros que reciben unos 45.000 litros diarios de leche de unos 600 pequeños y medianos productores de leche (80 litros diarios de promedio). Además, hay dos cooperativas (La Patriota y San José) que operan un centro cada una.
• La interacción entre FondeAgro y los centros de acopio de la red de frío ha priorizado el mejoramiento de la calidad de la leche como medio para lograr el mejor precio posible para el productor, y complementariamente, promueve una política de sostenibilidad ambiental, tanto a nivel de las fincas como de los centros.

Land O’Lakes Zambia has been working with smallholder farmers in dairy production since 2004. In the recent past, it has been realised that one of the challenges being faced by most farmers is availability of reliable transport for delivering milk to the milk collection centre (MCC). In the quest of helping the farmers improve on the daily milk deliveries, Land O’Lakes working together with World Bicycle Relief (WBR), developed a tailor made model of a bicycle with a capacity to carry 100 litres of milk. This robust bicycle is much stronger and durable than the ordinary bicycles found on the local market.

Eighteen months ago, 11 primary dairy cooperatives in Eastern Uganda faced challenges in marketing their members’ milk; milk prices were low; demand for milk was volatile; and some buyers were unreliable in paying for deliveries. Acting independently, the cooperatives lacked the ability to mitigate the situation, resulting in insufficient household incomes for their more than 500 members, of which nearly 50 percent are women.

Recognizing its leveraging power, the Eastern Uganda Dairy Farmers and Breeders Association (EUDFBA), which represents the cooperatives, responded by forming a business to collect and market the milk under one name. Through assistance provided by Land O’Lakes under USDA’s Food for Progress (FFP) program, the new company, Eastern Dairies, has since increased the household incomes of its farmers by more than 50 percent.

In October 2006, Eastern Dairies set up a 2,000-liter milk cooler, financed in part by a grant from FFP. During the new dairy’s first year, the volume of milk collected from local smallholders and sold at the market in Mbale town quadrupled. Of the 55,000 liters of milk now produced each month by the 11 primary cooperatives, over 75 percent is bulked and sold collectively through the new dairy’s milk cooler.

Context

Historically, dairy farmers within the same village could be collected by different dairy companies.

Action

Milk collection agreements (industries came to an agreement for rationalizing milking collection rounds: one vehicle per village in order to reduce the distance covered) and broad use of software for the optimization of rounds.

Results

The ratio “milk collected per litre of fuel used increased from 186L to 204 in 10 years (ref: Coop de France Ouest).

Leader

Dairy companies

Calendar

In progress

Impact

Saving of more than 30 million kilometres over the past 10 years

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