Dairy

Butana

B tier

Butana cattle from Sudan’s Butana plain are red indigenous zebu kept for milk in harsh heat. They rival Kenana in regional dairy importance. Milk is relatively full for African landraces and central to pastoral and agro-pastoral diets. Butana milk is consumed fresh, soured, or cooked into staple dishes. Outside Sudan it is rare. Treat documented Butana dairy projects as sources of authentic Sahelian-Nilotic milk character—resilient, unhomogenised in traditional form, forage-shaped.