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El Proyecto Cadena de Valor Láctea Colombia - Nueva Zelandia, in partnership with Agrosavia, el Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural and New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade Aid Programme
Produced by MFAT
The AgriBusiness Group, as a leader of a consortia made up of AgResearch, PGG Wrightson and Quality Consultants of New Zealand (QCONZ) has been engaged by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the New Zealand Aid Programme to implement the Colombia Dairy Value Chain Project. This is a joint New Zealand Aid Programme / Colombian Government development initiative. This was implemented between 2015 to 2022
The Team in Colombia Then New Zealand Ambassador Lucy Duncan
The Project
The goal of this five year project was to support Colombia to develop a profitable and competitive dairy farming sector (high tropical zone) through widespread adoption of integrated management systems, developed and adapted from New Zealand and Colombia dairy experience and validated under Colombian conditions. The project was primarily focused on Colombia’s small and medium scale farmers in three regions of the Colombian high altitude tropical zone (Nariño, Boyaca and Cundinamarca) which share a similar pasture based dairying system to New Zealand.
The Project was developed and was being implemented in collaboration with Colombian Partners, in particular the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the main Colombian research agency AgriSavia.
The New Zealand investment in the project will be approximately NZ $4 million supplemented by the Colombian contribution of about NZ $1 million.
Good Practice Guides for Farmers
Our team in Colombia developed ten good practice guides to help support dairy farmers to adopt good farming practices and make informed decisions. Short videos accompany the guides.
10. My Farm, my Business: using Cash Flow to make decisions that maximise profitability
The tool is a cash flow designed to keep financial records on farm in a friendly way. It allows to calculate KPIs to evaluate the planning for farm development impacts.
Click here to access the Cash Flow tool
2021 Agrosavia workshops on the CDVC project and its outputs
Guide to Extension
Financial tool for farmer milk processing associations
Project Term
April 2015 to March 2021
Partners and Key Personnel
Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural
Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuaria (Agrosavia)
With Consortia members AgResearch Ltd, Quality Consultants NZ Ltd (QCONZ), PGG Wrightson Seeds Ltd and other sub-contractors
The Agribusiness Group’s Role and Contact
Role: Management Services Consultant
Project Director: Jon Manhire
Project Co-ordinator based in Colombia: Juan Vela Jimenez
Administrator: Chrissy Wright-Stow
Further information
The project on the program “La Tierra los Animales y el Hombre” of Teleantioquia with the coverage of our DVC presentation in Medellín
