Dairy

N'Dama

C tier

N'Dama cattle of West Africa are small, trypanotolerant animals able to produce milk and meat in tsetse-challenged zones where other cattle fail. Milk yield is low by commercial standards but nutritionally critical for farming families; flavour is mild and traditional. N'Dama milk is a household and local market product—fresh or fermented—not an export carton milk. It supports sauces, porridges, and fermented milks in humid West African diets. Value lies in disease tolerance and food security, not butterfat contests.