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Dear all,

some precisions about the school milk program in Senegal.

1) Fortunately, Laiterie du Berger is not the only dairy in Senegal processing local milk. You find attached here a map done by GRET in 2008 showing the presence of small local dairies in Senegal

2) Laiterie du Berger`s thiakry is in pasteurized tubes

3) The tube is the typical packaging for sour milk in Senegal. Children tear off with their teeth a corner of the tube to drink the milk.

Best wishes,

Serena Ferrari

Pôle Pastoralisme Zones Sèches (PPZS)
Dakar - Sénégal

2015-03-03 10:45 GMT+00:00 FAO-Dairy-Outlook <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
Dairy Outlook is a service of FAO’s  Trade and Markets Division<http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/dairy/en/>
Thank you to Serena for sending in this information on Senegal.  I invite other members of the list to study the links below and provide their comments – for example, how applicable would this type of project be to other countries in the region and elsewhere?
Serena’s report is very interesting from several points of view:
•       it appears that this small project is the only dairy in Senegal (a country with a population of 14 million) using locally produced milk.
•       the milk is distributed to children as thiakry a regional product based on yogurt and millet/couscous which is fortified with vitamins.
•       support is provided a Danone social development fund.
•       the thiakry is distributed in tubes to the children (see video)
In the YouTube Video - School Feeding in Senegal<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ghjLki_NaI#t=11>  it is not clear if the thiakry is in UHT or pasteurized tubes.   Perhaps someone could answer this?
Some links to what thiakry is an how it is made are given below:
http://www.recettesafricaine.com/thiakry.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiakry:  Thiakry (also spelled thiacry or chakery) is a sweet millet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet> couscous<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous> dish eaten in West Africa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa>.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiakry#cite_note-1>[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiakry#cite_note-2> The wheat or millet granules are mixed with milk, sweetened condensed milk, or yogurt, as well as dried fruit such as raisins<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisins>, desiccated coconut<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccated_coconut>, and spices such as nutmeg<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutmeg>.
Michael


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