Improving milk quality in Nigeria is a marathon not a sprint

For dairy farmers in developed countries, it is well-known how important good milk quality is for the success of the dairy company producing products derived from milk. We have, for decades, had requirements on the number of somatic cells in the milk and, of course, on total bacterial count (TBC), etc. This is not the case in most countries where dairy production is not well established. Even today a common quality parameter for milk is “white and fluid”, meaning if the delivered milk mee