Landbou reports that the Milk Producers Organisation (MPO) has reduced its workforce by about 60% as part of a process to change the strategy and structure of the organisation.

The MPO directorate indicated in a statement earlier this week that the business process to recalibrate the organisation in line with its established functions and to better serve the interests of its members began in May and was completed in October. The statement went on to indicate that some of the present posts in the organisation had become redundant and were thus disestablished. Personnel in the institute for dairy technology and in the regulatory and member services had been affected. Fanie Ferreira, acting chief executive, said such changes were never easy, but they had been necessary to enable the organisation to deliver sustainable long-term benefits and support to milk producers to enable them to grow. The organisation hopes by the end of the year to have appointed a new chief executive (loosely translated from Afrikaans).

• Read the full original of the above report by Carien Kruger in Afrikaans at Landbou

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