Dilemmas of Scaling-Up
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Dear Ineke,
Thanks for your comment. Indeed the Mumias area was hit hard by the Post Election Violence (POV) of early 2008. Also in the sugarcane area there has been a lot of destruction. This POV has contributed to the circumstance that a notice ...
Dear Lucy,
I regret I overlooked your comment till this morning.
We agree ‘ownership’ is of crucial importance. ‘Ownership’ can be organised in many ways and has to be kept ‘alive’ – ‘meaning full’ over time. The farmers’ comments in your example ...
Dear Simon,
Many thanks for the good points you raised. I comment on your points starting with your point 3 and ending with your point 1.
Ad 3) Comparative advantages of Mumias Dairy Ltd (MDL)
For the feasibility study we considered a catchment a...
Dear Julius
Thanks for this remark. I think what you say is very useful. If I repeat your remark in my own wording, you stress the importance of careful preparation and guidance of the decision making process, that the purpose of farmers’ particip...
Dear Lucy,
Nice to receive a comment from you Lucy!
The information on the potential amount of raw milk available to MDL has for an important part been based on discussions with large-scale farmers and existing (independent) milk collection centre...
Dear Alex,
The development mentioned by you is very good. It will benefit the farmers and therefore in the long run also the processors and the sector in general.
Kind regards again,
Ynze
Dear Willem,
The pleasure is the same to me!!
Concerning your remarks. In our calculations we assumed a plant with a standard capacity of 30,000 L per 8-hour shift. The calculation further assumed that the intake of raw milk would gradually increa...
Dear Mr. Kirui,
Many thanks for your response. I reply point by point.
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The initiative for the study came from MOCO (1998) Ltd. MOCO is a limited company with around 70,000 shareholder farmers organised in zones. Each zone has got elected fa...
Dear Bill,
Nice to have contact with you again! Your question is very right. In case (model) calculations show results, which do not seem to correspond with the initiatives from the ‘real world’, then it is high time for the researcher to scratch ...
Profile Information
- Organisation
- Farmco
- Position
- Project coördinator - consultant
- Which country do you live?
- The Netherlands
- Field of expertise
- value chain development, financial services, sustainable food production
- Any other expertise areas not mentioned above?
- project formulation
- How did you become interested in dairy development?
- Being born and grown-up on a dairy farm, I am interested in dairy development from my early years onwards. After studying agricultural and development economics in Wageningen I worked in dairy training and development projects in Africa for almost 13 years (Zambia and Kenya). Since our return to Holland in 1992, I work for Farmco, a consultancy company focussed on agricultural and livestock development. Besides project co-ordination my work also includes identification and formulation of new projects and the implementation of studies. Much of this work relates to livestock development and the economics of it. Although being back in Holland, it is nice to have in this way still an opportunity to work on dairy development in African countries every now and then.
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 11:22am on June 18, 2009,
Joep van Mierlo said…
- Dear Ynze, just to comment you are so active in the discussions! Happy to see this!!! Joep
- At 11:38am on June 12, 2009,
Jan Ovinge said…
- Beste Ynze,
Good to meet you in this setting.
- At 5:36pm on June 9, 2009,
Inge Jansen said…
- Dear Ynze, welcome online! I hope this platform will be another good opportunity for you to work on dairy development in Africa. Perhaps you want to take a look at the cases and share some of your experiences? You can also add an extra comment or tangible questions connected with 'your case' here. And please let me know if you have any questions.
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