The Minister of Livestock Development, Mokhtar Ould Kaki, met on Saturday in the city of Nema, eastern Mauritania, with local organizations active in the field of livestock development and suppliers, during a meeting to agree on a participatory document to activate the Nema Dairy Factory.
The participatory agreement includes increasing the production of the Nema Dairy Factory to 5 tons per day from January to April 2025, with the goal of reaching a production capacity of 15 tons next autumn, and 30 tons of milk within 30 months.
The Minister stated that after acquiring the necessary logistical equipment to diversify and double production to supply the local and national market, the factory will be activated. He noted that the agreement “will positively impact the supply and activation of the factory.”
The document includes support from the ministry for the factory suppliers, through an immediate and appropriate mechanism to provide feed and veterinary medicines for sale in the state capital at reasonable prices, as well as the provision of milk storage containers for four cooperatives that supply the dairy factory in the first phase, with plans to extend this to other cooperatives later.
The document also outlines the improvement of healthcare, prioritizing production areas, ensuring the payment of milk sales to livestock farmers within 10 to 12 days, and supporting four cooperatives in the production of feed and animal pens. Additionally, it includes the planning and equipping of four milk collection centers.
The document also includes the equipping of five artesian wells and pens in the areas supplying the factory, and the establishment of a regional consultative framework composed of the ministry’s regional delegation and representatives of professional bodies active in livestock development to develop an action plan for supplying the factory until next autumn.
Mauritanian authorities decided in 2011 to establish a dairy factory in Nema, with an investment of $15 million, as announced by former Prime Minister Moulay Ould Mohamed Laghdaf.
According to the technical data announced by the government at the time, the factory would include a unit for producing milk and its derivatives, with a capacity of 30,000 liters per day, including 25,000 liters of milk and 5,000 liters of derivatives.
On August 14, 2013, the government laid the foundation stone for the project, which was inaugurated in 2016. At that time, the government announced that the factory “would bring a significant change to the economic activity in the eastern regions of the country.”
