The Adamawa State Government has pledged to sustain the gains of the Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria (ALDDN) programme, which officially ended after five years. The close-out event took place in Yola, where stakeholders gathered to mark the conclusion of the initiative aimed at strengthening Nigeria's local dairy value chain and improving the livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers. Implemented by Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Admiral's Dairy, the programme operated in Adamawa, Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Plateau, Bauchi, and Taraba states. In Adamawa, thousands of smallholder farmers, predominantly women, were organized into cooperatives and received support such as financial inclusion initiatives, modern dairy farming practices, solar-powered boreholes, milk collection centres, and stainless-steel milk cans, as well as animal health interventions and artificial insemination.
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