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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]>:

Dairy Outlook is a service of FAO’s  Trade and Markets Division

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  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/ThiakryThiakry (also spelled thiacry or chakery) is a sweet millet couscous dish eaten in West Africa.[1][2] The wheat or millet granules are mixed with milk, sweetened condensed milk, or yogurt, as well as dried fruit such as raisins, desiccated coconut, and spices such as nutmeg.

Michael

 



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