GEORGE F.W. HAENLEIN
Extension Dairy Specialist
University of Delaware
NEWARK, Del. For many
years now, the Peace Corps has
been a great benefactor around the
world, yet there are other organi
zations non-profit, church
affiliated, people-to-people,
farmer-to-farmer that take
generous people to developing
countries to help with better food
production for starving and mal
nourished populations.
Many business organizations,
some with government funding,
also have been active participants
in assisting third-world countries.
You cannot overlook the signif
icant contribution of McDonald’s,
Burger King, Kentucky Fried
Chicken, Pizza Hut, to mention
just a few companies that have
successfully introduced clean and
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There Are Opportunities In Dairy
cheap food where it did not exist
before.
Yet, although! I have seen
Dairy Queens and Dairy Bars in
Eastern Europe, I have not
encountered them on my assign
ments to help developing coun
tries in Asia, Africa and South
America.
Why is the progress involving
milk, yogurt and cheese around
the world so low?
In the United States we are con
vinced of the enormous and
unequaled health value of dairy
food. Other industrialized coun
tries share the same interest and
promotion.
This is evident from the annual
statistics compiled by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, the
International Dairy Federation
and the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), which is
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headquartered in Rome.
In the last two decades, a few
countries have begun new dairy
industries where there were none
before Japan is a good
example.
And in other countries, such as
India, a so-called “white” revolu
tion in milk production is going
on, although they have a long way
to go.
Around 198 S, farmers in India
produced 13 million tons of milk;
today, only 10 years later, they
produce more than double that
amount 30 million tons per
year! Much of that progress is the
result of American help projects.
Importing proven bulls from the
United States for upgrading and
cross-breeding is one way they
help. Teaching methods for
improved feed production, feed
ing and disease control is another.
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Yet opportunities still abound
in how much we can help people
to better feed themselves through
improved dairy management with
cows, water buffaloes, goats,
sheep, and even camels and
reindeer.
Despite great progress in India,
their milk production level per
cow per year is only 2,169 pounds
milk many United States dairy
goats give more milk than that!
In Asia, Africa and South
America, the level of cow produc
tivity is still low in most countries
including China, Egypt, Brazil,
Chile, Peru and Venezuela.
A comparison between North
Korea (with 3,247 pounds milk
per cow per year) and South Korea
(with 14,533 pounds milk) reflects
the influence of our help.
North Korea has half the people
that South Korea has, but pro
duces only one-eighth the total
amount of milk per year; that is 9
pounds milk per person compared
to 70 pounds in South Korea!
The most telling differences
and the most exciting opportuni
ties for progress are in the
levels of milk production per cow
year (or even per goat or sheep per
year) comparing countries.
Of course, the challenge is the
rapid, even uncontrolled human
population growth in many of the
developing countries.
However, the differences in
milk production levels per animal,
which are obviously possible by
looking at our own. are such great
beacons of hope for those coun
tries, if they only will move
forward.
To be part of teaching how to
achieve these higher levels is
rewarding, and not just personally.
It helps U.S. dairy fanners in an
indirect way by opening export
markets for bull semen, ova,
feeds, machinery and pharmaceut
ical products.
Improving the production level
per animal is definitely the best
and most economical way to
improve production instead of
increasing herd size.
In many developing countries
grazing is a major part of feeding,
and increasing henl size.
In many developing countries
grazing is a major part of feeding,
and increasing herd size poses a
great environmental threat
because of overstocking and
overgrazing.
Increasing production per ani
mal is most economical because
while the cost of maintenance of
the cow remains the same, the cost
of producing more pounds of milk
per cow becomes less with each
additional pound of milk.
Israel is a good example for the
value of progress in animal pro
ductivity compared to neighbor
ing countries and the United
States.
Israel produces more milk per
person {440 vs. 396 pounds milk)
than Italy, for example, because
Israel has achieved a much higher
animal productivity 20,656
pounds milk per cow compared to
9,858 in Italy.
In the small desert country of
Israel with its shortage of land,
this is especially important
Israel could teach its neighbors
a lot about improved dairy man
agement which would provide
more milk and yogurt and cheese
to their people.
Using the U.S.D.A. standard
daily food requirement ofBoo mil
ligram calcium per person, and if
all calcium came from milk and
dairy products, this would mean a
necessary production total per
year per person of 541 pounds of
milk.
If, as in the United States, 80
percent of the humans’ calcium
requirement comes from milk and
dairy products, the total milk pro
duced per person per year would
have to be 433 pounds at least not
counting imports.
Thus the many countries (in
Africa, Asia and South America)
with milk production below
10,000 pounds per animal, or less
than 100 pounds milk per inhabit
ant have a considerable problem
of feeding their people according
to their health and nutritional
needs.
For now, this means golden
opportunities for United States
dairy fanners to profit through
export
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