Our expert Berend travelled for the fifth time to Uganda to support the TIDE project. A four-year program funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands and implemented by SNV. The project’s overall goal is poverty reduction through improved dairy farm incomes, household...
Yesterday Bles Dairies received a group of international trainees at Bles Dairies Farm. The trainees are following a 12-week course at Dairy Training Centre (DTC). This 12-week course has the theme “from calf to cow”. The participants come from different African and...
Dairy development is perhaps associated with small scale development, but in fact, development concerns every level. Similarly, Bles Dairies is active in dairy development at every level and has many years and experience in large scale development. Our specialist...
Part of Bles Dairies is also our high tech dairy farm in Friesland, the Netherlands. Bles Dairies Farm is a moderate sized farm and it is unique in its high performance. It focusses on management and excellent results, both technically as financially. The latest milk...
In September a group of Finnish farmers came to the Netherlands for a three day training in ovary diagnostics and "early" pregnancy diagnose. Under supervision of fertility specialist Anne Terpstra, the group visited during these three days four big farms that allowed...
Our consultancy branch The Friesian conducted a training program for small-scale and medium-scale dairy farmers in Mongolia, commissioned by a large global bank. In the beginning of September part two of this trainings project started. The topic of this training...
Last month a group of Kenyan dairy farmers was trained in the Netherlands. Dairy Training Centre provided trainings at the Dairy Campus and their training facilities in Oenkerk. The Kenyan farmers visited several farms ánd stayed at host farms in Friesland. At the...
At the end of August, Bles Dairies East Africa imported high quality heifers from the Netherlands. This heifers were purchased on demand by farmers in Kenya and in Uganda. Also four heifers will be shown at the Eldoret Agricultural Business Fair. This show and fair...
One of our experts is in Indonesia for the provision of follow-up trainings. These trainings are given on a quarterly basis and form part of a 5-year dairy development project. The courses cover all dairy related topics and the final objective is to increase the...
The Friesian, Bles Dairies’ consultancy discipline, is partner in the TIDE project (The inclusive Dairy Enterprise project) in Uganda. The project has four main activities and one of these activities is the introduction of a Quality Based Milk Payment System (QBMPS)....
Our consultancy division The Friesian drew up a cattle crossbreeding proposal with white Fulani cows in Nigeria last year. This is part of a 3-year dairy development program which was set up per request of a major international dairy processor. The project aims to...
Our expert Anne travelled to Romania per request of Dairy Training Centre (DTC). DTC is the training center for dairy farming and milk processing, headquartered in Leeuwarden. DTC conducts both national as international training programs, alongside the implementation...