Kibbutz Afikim of Israel is helping build a new dairy facility in the West Bank city of Hebron in the Palestinian territories. An Israeli-Palestinian dairy farm is being built by the SAE Afikim company in a bid to fight the milk shortage in the Palestinian Authority.

According to Dr. Ismail Jubrani, one of the dairy farm’s owners, producing milk in the PA territories is cheaper and more accessible for Palestinians than buying milk produced in Israel. “We turned to Kibbutz Afikim we are happy to be able to use the knowledge and modernization of our neighbors to help us increase the amount of milk in the PA,” he says.

One of the difficulties the Hebron dairy farmers informed their Israeli colleagues of was the failure to utilise the amount of milk produced by the cows to the fullest. The AfiFarm computerised system developed in Kibbutz Afikim guides the Hebron dairy farmers on how to take advantage of all portions of milk with the help of equipment which identifies the milked cow through a sensor it wears and the amount of milk that cow usually produces.