Solar milking tech boosts dairy farms in Malawi

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Researchers at LUANAR tested a solar-powered milking device in Malawi, reducing milking time & improving efficiency, milk quality, and farmers' livesResearchers at LUANAR tested a solar-powered milking device in Malawi, reducing milking time & improving efficiency, milk quality, and farmers' lives

When Robert Mbendera started out as a small-scale dairy farmer in rural Malawi 20 years ago, milking the one cow he owned was an arduous, time-consuming process.

“It would take about 80 minutes to milk the cow—that’s 80 minutes in the morning and 80 minutes in the evening,” he told SciDev.Net.

“I would start imagining what a lot of hard work and expense it would involve if I were to have three or four cows.”

But this changed in 2020 when researchers at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) trialed a solar-powered milking device and water pumping system at Mbendera’s farm in the Dedza district of central Malawi.

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