Our 2030 Targets
Dairy Tracks Stories
We are using digital technology to drive innovation across our supply chain by collecting and analysing large volumes of newly available data. In New Zealand, we created a new app for dairy farmers to track a wide array of social and environmental metrics on-farm, from daily milk production and quality to environmental compliance and herd health.
In the future, this data will be available to our customers using our sustainability management tool, AtSource, to give them traceability and transparency around where and how their dairy ingredients are produced. This will help our customers to better report and act on the sustainability issues that matter most to them and their consumers, making the value of our supply chain provenance real for customers.
Since 2020, ofi’s Nigeria subsidiary, Outspan Nigeria, has supported local nomad dairy herders and communities by investing in bespoke programs. These are developed in partnership with a local partner, Kano Dairy and Livestock Husbandry Cooperative Union, to make sure our programs are tailored to the specific needs of these communities. For example, Outspan constructed five Milk Collection Centers (MCC) close to smallholder dairy farms in Kano State.
Before, local women walked many miles to sell their milk in distant markets, but now the MCC does this for them. We have also supplied high quality feed to improve the health of the cows in the local area, and conducted training to help nomad herders improve the wellbeing, productivity and fertility of their cows. In addition, we have set up transportation and cooling systems to preserve the quality of milk produced in the region.
ofi’s dairy manufacturing facility in the southern state of Johor, Malaysia, produces dairy products for people all around the world. Here, we fortify our milk with micronutrients like Vitamin A, D and E – an important step because these micronutrients are vital to healthy development, disease prevention and wellbeing. As a staple ingredient enjoyed across the world, offering value-added dairy products that are full of nutrients helps to address nutritional deficiencies that are common in many of the markets where our products are consumed.
