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Ugandan Dairy Development Authority (DDA) is all set to hit the Algerian market in the current year. While releasing the annual dairy performance report for the year 2021/2022, Samson Akankiza, the DDA executive director said there is a large market for dairy products in Algeria and Uganda being the second milk producer in East Africa –after Kenya– should take advantage of all the available market opportunities.
Ugandan Dairy Development Authority (DDA) is all set to hit the Algerian market in the current year. While releasing the annual dairy performance report for the year 2021/2022, Samson Akankiza, the DDA executive director said there is a large market for dairy products in Algeria and Uganda being the second milk producer in East Africa –after Kenya– should take advantage of all the available market opportunities.
Algeria’s milk production is generally low and most of its milk products are imported from other countries. Uganda has quality milk which is organically produced, the best product on the market. Akankiza, further proffered that Uganda will be exporting more other dairy products to Algeria starting with powdered milk which is already in the final stages of penetration after technical verification of the dairy value chain regulatory framework by the Algerian team in December last year.
Licensed milk collection centres in Uganda have increased from 475 in 2020/2021 to 547 in the year 2021/2022 with a total capacity of 2.3 million litres while processing dairy plants are 160, an increase of 44 plants from the financial year 2020/2021.
The upcoming Joint Permanent Commission and business-to-business meetings between Uganda and Algeria are slated for next month in Algeria. More such bilateral deals are anticipated in that initiative
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However, the report revealed that the national per capita milk consumption in Uganda is still very low, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. Uganda’s estimated domestic milk per capita consumption is 62 litres compared to the WHO recommendation of 200 litres.
