Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Limited launches fodder development program for dairy farmers

Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Limited launches fodder development program for dairy farmers

By Apenisa Waqairadovu
Friday 05/10/2018

The Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Limited has launched the fodder development program for dairy farmers in the country.

Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Limited CEO Sachida Nand says that the company has prepared 11 packages consisting of farming equipment for distribution to 11 groups, with three to five farmers in each group.

Nand says that each package was worth about $26,000 and the machines were imported from India.

He adds that each package has a 15 horsepower tiller, a trailer that can carry 1.5 tonnes of load and a ripper that can cut grass needed for two to three days in one hour or so and a high speed chaff cutter.

Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Limited says that the ownership of the machines will remain with them and if machines are sitting idle and not being utilised properly, then they will reserve the right to take the equipment and give them to other groups that can put it to better use.

The 11 groups that will be assisted this year have been selected from different supply base of Fiji Cooperative Dairy Company Limited, which covers Navua, Burebasaga, Tailevu, Waidewara and Naitasiri.

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