Ethiopian dairy women study raw data

The study is summarized that the impact of clean milk production training on knowledge, attitudes and practices of women dairy farmers in the central highlands of Ethiopia. The study indicated that women dairy farmers improved their knowledge, attitude, and practices relating to quality milk production. However, milk shade assessments of individual farmers identified many important risk factors for clean milk production that were due to infrastructure issues. The effectiveness of the training materials and approach was supported by the increase in KAP assessment scores from pre-training to post-training for all study sites. Comparisons of the training outcomes and evaluation results of milk shades were found counterintuitive, which revealed the complexity of food safety interventions. Customized food safety training is effective but should be combined with dairy farming infrastructure improvements to achieve the goal of clean milk production at farm level.