Future Threat To Somali Dairy: Alberta to Dubai camel dairy farming.

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Somali owned private equity firms will dominate the future landscape of Somali commerce.

Why?

Because Odays have shown zero creativity and poise to hedge any industry in Somalia.

Dubai is launching the first ever fully integrated dairy farm for camels in the world. Here's two reason why Somalis who invest in a verically integrated camel milk processing company can compete with Dubais production and access a share of the billion dollar dairy industry in the MENA region(Middle East North Africa)

1) Camel milk produces less milk after extraction. With per litre costs higher than dairy milk, Somali companies can produce more quantity than the UAE producers, while competing with a lower cost option for consumers.

2) Easier Access to MENA markets: Exporting milk is a challenge for Somalis. With cold storage and dairy tanker technologies from China becoming cheaper and easier to maintain. Somalis dairy truck tankers can deliver fulfilment across Africa to packaging centres that can pack and price directly to consumers.


I love it when Somalis cut the middleman and go direct to consumer. This will be another opportunity for Somali private equity firms to level competitive landscape of opportunities being exploited by gulf countries.


What do you guys think of this.

Full article here: https://www.google.ca/amp/edmontonj...camel-dairy-wetaskiwin-company-heads-east/amp

 

[Arman]

Is the milk more valuable than the camel? If so, we might need to stop selling the camels to them. Competition would be minimal and we could raise the prices of the milk.

 

[illiyas]

This is something Somalis would easily dominate in with half the world's camel pop. How many camels needed for a commercial production.

 

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This is something Somalis would easily dominate in with half the world's camel pop. How many camels needed for a commercial production.

They are running @ 18,000 head.

I'm from Alberta and since the oil is down, our Agricultral players are looking to other markets to now sell technology.

 

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Is the milk more valuable than the camel? If so, we might need to stop selling the camels to them. Competition would be minimal and we could raise the prices of the milk.

If you have fully integrated system the feeder system is more valuable per head.

Here's a simple way to look at this:

What we do: Sell camels.

What we don't do: Milk, Processed Meats, Tannery and fertilizer.

What our buyers don't want us to do: Become integrated.

Exports out of Somalia for the past 20 years were optimized by Arab nation. Now as young Somalis start returning; private equity Somali corps can step in and integrate these processes right down the supply chain.

 

[XamarCade]

If you have fully integrated system the feeder system is more valuable per head.

Here's a simple way to look at this:

What we do: Sell camels.

What we don't do: Milk, Processed Meats, Tannery and fertilizer.

What our buyers don't want us to do: Become integrated.

Exports out of Somalia for the past 20 years were optimized by Arab nation. Now as young Somalis start returning; private equity Somali corps can step in and integrate these processes right down the supply chain.

Exactly, imagine if we cut the middleman, the opportunities are endless.

 

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Exactly, imagine if we cut the middleman, the opportunities are endless.

Middleman syndrome is from laziness.

 

[XamarCade]

Middleman syndrome is from laziness.

If we sell 1 camel for 300$, by the time the meat is processed and packed and on the market it can be sold 3-4 folds than what it was originally bought for, we gotta do better, we're selling ourselves short

 

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If we sell 1 camel for 300$, by the time the meat is processed and packed and on the market it can be sold 3-4 folds than what it was originally bought for, we gotta do better, we're selling ourselves short

Don't forget the camel leather that wasn't added to the value chain and the nitrogen rich fertilizer collected to sell to farmers.

 

[DrippinglyWet]

yes we should cut out the middle man but also search for different markets like Indonesia and Pakistan the arabs use our trade deficit to keep us where we are we have to expand our horizon in traditionally non Somali markets

 

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yes we should cut out the middle man but also search for different markets like Indonesia and Pakistan the arabs use our trade deficit to keep us where we are we have to expand our horizon in traditionally non Somali markets

Ancient Somali merchants controlled the camel trade for centuries. The gulf states took our 1,500 year dominance of Agro trade in a short 25 years because Somalis chose to fight in the battle field instead of the market place.

The spirit of the Ancient Merchants will return in the form of young hungry Somalis with passports, international banks with direct consumer relations.

The tide will turn. For now we will keep getting undersold and pawned off by politicians who have no business sense.

 

[DrippinglyWet]

What sucks is the work ethic in Somalia , in what country are workers and farmers looked lower at than wandering nomads we have to instill a hard work ethic in the next generation that says no to hand outs

 

[DrippinglyWet]

We should transition the nomadic population to ranching instead of wandering that will boost animal growing & reproduction rate tremendously and minimalise damage during a potential drought.