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EU injects 40 M Euros boost for milk production
Melody Chikono ·
The European Union (EU) is injecting 40 million Euros under the Zimbabwe Agricultural Growth programme to capacitate the countries’ livestock sector with the latest in-calf Heifers project seen reducing the dairy sector import bill while improving milk production .
The EU funding will extending to Transforming Zimbabwe’s’ Dairy Value Chain for the future (TranZDVC) project which handed over 147 in-calf heifers to 121 dairy farmers for which 59 of them were women in 18 districts from 10 provinces.
The heifers cost US$129, 037 million with a landing cost amounting to US$1,358 for each beast.
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