Some 346 male and female farmers have benefited from an innovative training session in the Dairy Value Chain (DVC), including 31% are women and 41% are young people, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) said on Sunday in Tunisia.

This activity is part of the Innovations in Agriculture and Agribusiness (IAAA) project, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and implemented jointly by the Agricultural Investment Promotion Agency (APIA) and GIZ.

According to the latest survey, the DVC training helped male and female farmers to increase the productivity of their cows by more than 23% compared to untrained farmers.

These training days were carried out and organised by the DVC project partners, actors in the dairy sector, with synergy between the public and private sectors.

The project partners adopted the DVC approach within their field advisory services and managed to meet the quality standards of the training.

A total of 4,899 male and female farmers have been trained since the beginning of the IAAA project, with a high integration of women (56%) and a remarkable inclusion of youth (48%).

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse