Dilemmas of Scaling-Up
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Dear Jan,
Your comments are true. However, in Vietnam, we witnessed very strong marketing campaigns to promote locally produced milk (mainly sold as UHT), both by local and international companies. Especially after the melamime scandal, the sales ...
Dear Johan,
We have written an article about the cost of a system in the MilkMatters Magazine volume 3, page 21, which you can download on the Dairy Vietnam website. In the same issue is also an interview with a farmer about it (both also attached...
Dear Joep and Johan, Dairy farmers in Vietnam have very limited land available so the key is to intensify the forage production. We successfully introduced a small scale sprinkler irrigation system (1000m2) in combination with an Australian forage...
Hi, my name is Raf Somers. I’m a veterinarian from Belgium but working in Vietnam for the last 8 years. I’m currently the chief technical advisor of a Belgian funded dairy project implemented by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Dev...
Profile Information
- Organisation
- Belgian Technical Cooperation
- Position
- Chief Technical Advisor
- Which country do you live?
- Vietnam
- Field of expertise
- value chain development, sustainable food production, producer organisations
- Any other expertise areas not mentioned above?
- tropical dairy farming
- How did you become interested in dairy development?
- Enterprise driven small holder dairy development can be viable tool to spur economic development and alleviate poverty
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- At 10:30am on June 9, 2009,
Joitske Hulsebosch said…
- Hi Raf, welcome! Though you won't be with us on July 2nd, I hope you can share some of your experiences. Maybe the Indian case would be most interesting to you? Feel free to comment on the case..
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