1. Seed Money Project Iran dairy
13 december 2016
Alfons Beldman, Jelle Zijlstra, Jan Bles, Otto Seijler, Sybren Attema, Bart Dronkert

2. Agenda Doel en participanten Activiteiten Iran: characteristics
Key issues and possible co-operation
Main results
Next steps
The intended new consortium

3. Goal and participants
Goal: to explore the possibilities to develop a co- operation model between Dutch and Iranian partners to support the Iranian dairy sector to produce high quality milk and feed in an efficient way.
Partners on Dutch side:

4. Activities
Collecting data + fieldtrip to Iran with all partners: September 2016
Overall impression: professional farmers, sector with high ambitions e.g. to export.

5. Iran: characteristics
78 million people
Centrally led economy
Avg income: $ (comparable with Romania/Bulgaria)
Warm and dry climate: avg rainfall 250 mm
Agriculture: 21% of employment
In general small scale farms
Exporter for vegetables, fruits, nuts (pistachio, dates, apples)
Importer for meat, grains, soy

6. Main milk producing areas of Iran
The provinces of East and West Azerbaijan and Ardebil in the Northwest
Guilan and Mazandaran on the southern coast of the Caspian sea
Tehran, Qazvin, Alborz
Northern part of Khorasan province in the North East
Isfahan , Fars and Kerman

7. Key issues and possible co-operation
Quality assurance, quality standards and milk payment systems
Dutch experience and technology desired to organise and implement with all relevant stakeholders to achieve a higher quality of consumer products.
Feed availability and quality
Dutch experience and technology desired to organise and implement independent assessment of feed quality and building trust in the chain.
Water efficiency and feed production
International experience in crop production and water efficiency on farm level needed. Elaborate knowledge on policy development on regional and national level.
Education: both on operational level and on economics
Need was mentioned by all farmers. Several had done a training in the Netherlands in the past.

8. Main results
Network building: farmers, processor, Ministry, feed industry, advisory, breeding, trade partners
Insight in characteristics of Iranian dairy sector
Consortium partners willing to continue joint efforts to come to a dairy chain project to demonstrate in joint NL- IR project what the Dutch have to offer to meet Iranian needs
Serious positive attitude of Iranian partners
Group of intended new (SME-)partners to strengthen and enlarge Dutch consortium

9. Next steps for future project
Identify extra partners on Iranian and Dutch side
Organise a joint week in the Netherlands with all partners
To show how the Dutch sector is working
To jointly develop a project
Joint project:
Aiming for long term results and effects
Starting with hands-on activities with farmers, processor and other stakeholders

10. The intended new consortium 12/12/2016
FrieslandCampina
Relatie melkveehouder-processor, uitbetalingssystemen, logistiek 2
TrouwNutrition
Voeradvies, kwaliteitsbepaling, toxinen 3
CRV
Sperma, stierkeuze-advies, diensten rond de koe 4
Wageningen Research
Process facilitation, monitoring and evaluation
Content: dairy farm management and soil-water-crop management
Qlip
Kwaliteitsstandaarden, uitbetalingssystemen, toxinen 5
Delta
Laboratoriumapparatuur, melkcontrolesystemen 6
Uniform Agri
Management software, data-uitwisseling keten, training 7
Dairy Training Centre
Train the trainers, franchisemodel, E-learning 8
Netherlands Water Partners
Intermediair/vraagarticulatie: water- en bodembeheer, aanpak op boeren- en regioniveau