The Ethiopian Government...
In Ethiopia, SNV is implementing the Enhancing Dairy Growth in Ethiopia (EDGET)...
Read moreThe goal of Enhancing Dairy Sector Growth in Ethiopia (EDGET) is to improve household income and nutritional status of children, through increased production, enhanced processing and marketing dairy products.
Building on the Mass Hormonal Synchronisation and Insemination Project, the breed improvement programme of the Government of Ethiopia, EDGET is working towards enabling 65,000 dairy farmer households to achieve 100% income increase from dairy within five years. At the same time it is improving the nutritional status of 500,000 children, particularly in the first 1,000 days of their lives, through consumption of milk products.
In the process of enhancing the capacity of farmers to make money from dairy, SNV through EDGET is working in 51 woredas of Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regional national states. SNV is: