This training was carried out for Olenguruone cooperative society on 14th January, 2016 at the Centre of Excellence for Livestock Innovation and Business (CoELIB), Osho chemical industries and Cooper K brands.

A total of 64 participants attended the training that included cooperative managers, farmers, cooperative extension team, animal health private practitioners and the ministry extension officers.
Osho chemicals trained on calf rearing FS preparation before and after birth, feeding of calves up to weaning, disease control in calves, housing and hygiene. This was meant to give participants a good calf rearing program. CoELIB trained on Dairy Record keeping with the aim of developing a record keeping culture among the farmers, focusing on the technical records and how records can be used to make farm management decisions. Cooper K brands focused on Mineral supplementation of dairy cows at different stages of lactation and diseases from the mineral deficiencies.

This training was carried out for Olenguruone cooperative society on 14^th January, 2016 at the Centre of Excellence for Livestock Innovation and Business (CoELIB), Osho chemical industries and Cooper K brands.

A total of 64 participants attended the training that included cooperative managers, farmers, cooperative extension team, animal health private practitioners and the ministry extension officers.

Osho chemicals trained on calf rearing FS preparation before and after birth, feeding of calves up to weaning, disease control in calves, housing and hygiene. This was meant to give participants a good calf rearing program. CoELIB trained on Dairy Record keeping with the aim of developing a record keeping culture among the farmers, focusing on the technical records and how records can be used to make farm management decisions. Cooper K brands focused on Mineral supplementation of dairy cows at different stages of lactation and diseases from the mineral deficiencies.

The conference was held in Brussels, Belgium from 5th to 6th July, 2016 and mainly comprised of three programmes namely; EDULINK II, ACP-Science & Technology Programme (S&T II) and ACP Caribbean & Pacific Research Programme for Sustainable Development.

DAIRYCHAIN was represented by Prof A.K Kahi and Mr. Wilson Munene. The main aim of the conference was to familiarize and train the participants on project management, project financial management and the rules governing projects funded by EDULINK II.

The conference was of great help especially to the projects, which were being offered grants by EDULINK II for the first time.

SNV through its Kenya Marketled Development Programme (KMDP) and specifically Vocational Skills Development (VoSD) supports knowledge transfer in the dairy sector because practical skills are one of the major hindrance to a competitive dairy sector. Working with EDFA, SNV builds capacity of farmers, consultants and students through practical skills development to ensure that practices are structured and conform to the good dairy farm practices. Due to this, CoELIB posted students interns to work in EDFA farms to gain practical skills.

This training which was conducted from 12th-13th of July 2016 at Willens Practical Dairy Training Centre (PDTC), Eldoret was organized with an aim of demonstrating practical principles of good dairy farm management, advisory and important practices in dairy farming.
Wytze Heida facilitated the training whereby he focused on; Good dairy farm practices, Optimal young stock management, Hygienic milk production, Principles of good cow house design and feeding management.

Dairy farming is all about knowing all the producers to ensure smooth operations and this is only possible through offering a practical learning environment so that the skills learnt can be practiced thereafter.

As part of the on-going efforts to improve inter-regional and inter-institutional collaborations through effective linkages across Africa, Prof. Charles Muleke, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Egerton University, Kenya visited Nigeria from 8th to 19th December, 2015. Professor Muleke’s visit to Nigeria is part of the academic exchange programme under the auspices of DAIRYCHAIN programme.

During the 12 day visit, he visited Obafemi Awolowo University, department of Animal Sciences, Unversity of Ibadan, faculty of Veterinary, College of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), Ibadan and Institute for Agricultural Research and Training, Ibadan.

He held seminar presentations in all the universities visited, consultations with Faculty staff and students and as well as visited touristic sites in southwestern Nigeria and exposure to some social events in the Nigerian style.

Through the seminar presentations and consultations with Faculty members across all the three Universities, some areas of possible collaborations were discussed and included the following: (a) opportunities for staff and student academic exchange visits, (b) curricular harmonization and offering joint programmes in Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, (c) collaborate on cross-cutting issues such as environment, climate change, biotechnology, biodiversity, etc, (d) joint proposal writing and competition for mega-grants on themes related to capacity building.

The visit further strengthened inter-institutional and inter-regional academic cooperation and collaboration across Africa.