A dairy journey in Africa: Why Nigeria?

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Snorri Sigurdsson Arla Foods
Practical training in Nigeria: Photo: Snorri Sigurdsson
Practical training in Nigeria: Photo: Barbara Fouchet
When I moved from China to Africa a year ago, to be more precise to Nigeria on the west coast of Africa, many of my colleagues around the world asked me “Why move to Nigeria of all places?” It is a logical question after working with dairy farmers in Iceland for a decade, Danish farmers for 7 years and then with Chinese farmers for the last 3 years, most of them with thousands of cows each. Why accept an offer to work on a development programme to build up local milk production in Nigeria


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