{"id":4976,"date":"2011-08-26T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2011-08-26T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T11:02:50","slug":"dairy-industry-needs-more-value-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/26\/dairy-industry-needs-more-value-addition\/","title":{"rendered":"DAIRY INDUSTRY NEEDS MORE VALUE ADDITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/WUSC-Logo-Bilingual-WHITE-on-blue-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/WUSC-Logo-Bilingual-WHITE-on-blue-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WUSC-Logo-Bilingual-WHITE-on-blue-300x200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4979\" \/><\/a>By Joshua Morishu(Faceofmalawi)<\/p>\n<p>Lack of value addition and strategic marketing are affecting milk production in the country, World University Services of Canada (WUSC) has said.<br \/>\nWUSC country director Jacob Mapemba said this at the weekend when his organization donated a generator to Mpoto Dairy Farmers Association (MDFA)<br \/>\nHe said WUSC, which aims at improving businesses in the country and linking them with Canadian companies will ensure that farmers concentrate on value-addition and establish potential markets, he said with the initiative, farmers would realize more profits.<br \/>\nMapemba said WUSC, which also helps business with financial support noted that black outs were affecting milk processing hence the decision to donate 96.5-kv generator worth more than k 300,000 to the association.<br \/>\nMDFA manager Edward Mwale said the association has 855 farmers who produce between 6,000 and 7,000 litres of milk daily.<br \/>\nGenerally the association\u2019s factory has a processing capacity of 1000 litres per day but only, processes 600 litres.<br \/>\nHe said the factory was also badly affected by power blackout, adding that farmers lose over 1500 litres of milk every month due to frequent blackouts,<br \/>\nMwale further said the interruptions cost the association over k150, 00 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joshua Morishu(Faceofmalawi) Lack of value addition and strategic marketing are affecting milk production in the country, World University Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[278,258,1129],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-finance","tag-malawi","tag-wusc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}