Cohort Three Students

Elias Odhiambo Opot is a student at Egerton University pursuing Bachelor of Science in Dairy Technology and Management. He benefitted from TAGDev Program at Egerton extended tuition support for needy students in the university. He  has interest in agriculture and as a result his interest is to come up with ideas on how to improve the livelihood of farming community  as well enhance food security and community nutrition. Currently, he is working on a project that involves improving the nutritional status of yoghurt by adding chia seeds.

Elias has a great ambition of furthering his studies to higher levels of postgraduate since the “sky is the limit” and this has been the driving force. He is a member of DAFTECH club that provides Egerton students with affordable and nutritious yoghurt. He is passionate about value addition in dairy enterprise through production of milk products with improved nutritonal status