It's hoped goat's milk will be the next big thing in the infant formula market.
A new $30 million Government programme is looking at ways to grow the goat milk industry.
The Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme launched yesterday has its sights on growing a sustainable, high-value goat milk infant formula industry in New Zealand.
Caprine Innovations NZ (CAPRINZ) is a 5-year, $29.65 million PGP programme between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Dairy Goat Co-operative (NZ) Ltd.
The end goals include improving the health and well-being of families, delivering a range of benefits such as growing research and farming capability and increasing export revenue across the New Zealand dairy goat milk industry to $400 million per annum by 2023.