Dairy Development Program FrieslandCampina - Deployment of active dairy farming experts

The world's largest dairy cooperative, FrieslandCampina, wants to share its more than 130 years of knowledge and experience to increase the profitability of farms in its working area and to create shared value for the farmers and the company. The Dairy Development Program is part of the CSR house and has been implemented for external and internal reasons. External reasons are: pressure from governments to increase local supply, changing consumer preferences, increased competition and the route 2020 CSR policy, which calls for greater local involvement. Internal reasons are: compliance with FrieslandCampina quality standards, which calls for significant quality improvement. One element of the Dairy Development Program is the Farmer2Farmer project. In 2013 and 2014 in total 15 Dutch dairy farmers have been selected for the project, to train and advise dairy farmers in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) on aspects of dairy farming, such as feeding and watering, calf-rearing, milking hygiene and practice, milking machine maintenance, hoof care and housing & barn design. The main goal of the Farmer 2 Farmer program is to improve milk quality and increase milk production on farms in the Asian countries. This project is one element of the Agriterra - Royal FrieslandCampina partnership.