2024, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Part A
Review on the status of dairy production and processing in Ethiopia
Author(s): Demelash Kefale Tenaw, Tsegaye Metiku, Maradona Birhanu and Li Ruilan
Abstract: The livestock production subsector makes a substantial economic contribution to the country by providing a means of livelihood for farmers, creating employment opportunities, ensuring food security, providing services, maintaining social, cultural, and environmental values, and supplying money. High temperatures, frequent plant associations, limited forage production, little rainfall, high prevalence of serious illnesses and parasites, livestock and human carrying capacity, and other variables are some of the key environmental factors restricting dairy production in Ethiopia. These components can be classified as socioeconomic, institutional, biological, or technological. Up to 60% of the milk produced by farmers is consumed at home due to a variety of factors, including market distance, outdated technology for milk processing, and a lack of institutional marketing. Population expansion and urbanization increase demand for milk and milk products even if there are chances to increase dairy production and processing. The number of lending financial institutions is increasing. The government is now looking at this industry as a potential source of employment for young people and is paying attention to the growing awareness among dairy producers. The intermittent promotion of milk and milk products. The low capacity utilization and low volume supply of milk and milk products of Ethiopian dairy development enterprises can be attributed to a number of factors, including management issues, financial strains, and the society's unstable and low processed milk consumption levels caused by the fasting that prevents orthodox Christians, or about 35-40% of the population, from consuming dairy products for nearly 200 days out of the year. Therefore, in order to access the literature on Ethiopian milk processing, including its status, opportunities, and constraints, it was required to review this work.
DOI: 10.33545/27080013.2024.v5.i1a.122
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Demelash Kefale Tenaw, Tsegaye Metiku, Maradona Birhanu, Li Ruilan. Review on the status of dairy production and processing in Ethiopia. Acta Entomol Zool 2024;5(1):36-40. DOI: 10.33545/27080013.2024.v5.i1a.122
