FrieslandCampina builds mobile yoghurt plant

Netherlands-based FrieslandCampina says it is strengthening local dairy production in Nigeria by building a mobile yoghurt plant. This is to enhance robust economy and good nutrition for the populace. Jeroen Elfers, Corporate Director, Dairy Development and Milk Streams at FrieslandCampina, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.

Elfers said that the yoghurt plant would start with processing 1.8 million kilogrammes of milk and can annually produce more than 18 million pouches of drinking yoghurt. He said the processing capacity can rapidly be scaled up. They expect would be able to put the plant into use in the first quarter of 2022 in Nigeria. According to him, the project is part of the Dairy Development Programme that supports local farmers to increase their milk production, improve the quality of the milk and offer them access to the market.

He noted that this would contribute to stronger value chains, stronger economy and good nutrition for the local population. With the mobile dairy plant, they would help thousands of local Nigerian farmers by ensuring the sales of their milk and, consequently, their income. He said they are also creating jobs and providing the population with nutritious and affordable dairy products. In this way, they are cooperating with the Nigerian government in providing food for the rapidly growing population.

Supreme reports that FrieslandCampina has had its own dairy plant in Nigeria since 1974, FrieslandCampina WAMCO (West Africa Milk Company). Peak is the best-known brand of FrieslandCampina in Nigeria. In 2020, FrieslandCampina acquired the dairy company Nutricima and with this obtained a second processing location in the South-west of Nigeria, and became the owner of, among others, the NuNu brand.