Over the last decades, the increased demand in beef by the growing population led to an industrialization and intensification of the production systems. This resulted in many issues such as environmental impact, animal welfare, consumers acceptability, resource-use efficiency, growing reliance on edible …

Background: Society ages, and the incidence of physical limitations and frailty is increasing. For frail older adults, these limitations will lead to more assistance in daily living activities. A significant cause of physical limitation and frailty is sarcopenia, age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass, …

The significant role of a dairy cooperative is determined by its performance. KUD Giri Tani as a dairy cooperative has low performance in its financial and supplying milk to milk processor company, such as low cash asset, large the debt to feed supplier, lack of support services provided, many farmer …

Organic farming is increasingly promoted as a means to reduce the environmental impact of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics in conventional dairy systems. These factors potentially affect the microbial communities of the production stages (soil, silage, dung, and milk) of …

This applied research is an attempt to analyse the effectiveness of milk marketing and facilitate developing a sustainable milk value chain for dairy farmer’s groups in Punakha district. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of survey, key informant interviews and focus group discussion were used …

This study was intended to Analyse the Dairy Value Chain in Nyagatare District with a case study focus on Katabagemu Dairy Farmers Cooperative. It was intended to assess the potential for Milk Collection Centres to procure and process high quality milk. Stakeholder Interviews, Supply Chain Observation …

Small scale farmers in Kenya face low milk yields from dairy cows. One of the causes is the low quality and quantity of roughage on small-scale farms. Overall in all Kenyan farming systems the dairy production is influenced by seasonal fluctuation of roughage production. Next to this it is known that …

Climate change has caused dilapidation of the environment, droughts and floods leading to reduced yields, productivity and ultimately food insecurity for human consumption. Unfortunately, it is our contact with the environment that has led to all this, but most people are not aware. The three gases contributing …

Breastfeeding has important health consequences, not only for infants, but also for mothers (Victora et al., 2016). However, many mothers stop breastfeeding before the advised six month period. Research indicates that difficulties associated with combining work and breastfeeding are an important reason …

The objective of the study was to evaluate the capacity of Northern Bandung Dairy Farmer Cooperative (KPSBU) to support farmers in producing good quality milk within the milk value chain in West Bandung Regency, West Java. The study used qualitative research strategies including desk study, case study, …