Milk Processing Course in Kenya
Business Incubation for Dairy Processors
Are you looking to advance your career in Kenya’s thriving dairy industry? Our comprehensive milk processing course offers hands-on training and expert knowledge to help you succeed. Whether you’re a beginner or seeking to upgrade your skills, this course is designed to meet the demands of modern dairy processing.
Why Business Incubation on Milk Processing
- Enhanced capacity to develop and manage your dairy farm for optimal household income
- Acquisition of competences in milk processing courses, personal development and entrepreneurship
Milk Processing Courses
- Milk chemistry and microbiology
- Milk quality and testing
- Hygienic cleaning and disinfection
- Regulations, premise designs and minimum requirements
- Yoghurt and fermented milk production
- Cheese production
- Cream, butter and ghee production
- Ice cream Production
- Record keeping and basic business plan development
- Financial management
- Marketing
The potential trainee must be:
- Working on a dairy farm on fulltime basis ready to be a successor or future herd manager therein
- Willing to develop and optimize the dairy farm and join a study group of fast forward young dairy farmers after successfully completing the training.
- Ready to become a demonstration farmer for smallholders in their locality after training and certification.
- Willing to involve their family or owner of the farm at the start of training period to line up vision and mission of the farm and at the end to share the developed business plan prior to being accorded approval by the family/owner
- Willing and ready to do all the assignments in time and work in farms for a prescribed period of time.
- In possession of a laptop or iPad
- Able to pay all the fees in time; PDTC Kenya will also connect trainees to sponsors/donors where possible
- Ready to go to The Netherlands for a 1-month internship on a family dairy farm and invite the Dutch dairy farmer to their farm after the certification.
- Must be willing to collect a baseline data from their farm to be used for learning purposes.