The government has put in place plans to double milk production in the next five years that will see production increase from 5.2 billion litres to 10 billion litres a year.
President Wiliam Ruto while speaking on Tuesday in Kiganjo, Nyeri County, where he commissioned the Modernised Kenya Co-operative Creameries Kiganjo Factory said milk was one of the highest influencers of income in Kenya, generating at least Sh200 billion a year.
Ruto further outlined plans to modernise Kenya Cooperative Creameries plants and install milk coolers countrywide, to increase the capacity of milk processing across the country.
“We want to fetch more from value-added milk. Our farmers are not thriving because they have been selling raw milk,” he said.
The president pledged that his government would get rid of market brokerstl to ensure they got maximum returns from their product.
According to Ruto, the Country has enough facilities to create powder and long-life milk to ensure any surplus milk does not go to waste, with the plant now equipped with new product lines to process camel milk and drinking water.
The Prsident also announced the removal of taxes on animal feed imports and the reduction of the cost of semen and instructed KCC to minimise expenses shouldered by the farmers to increase their profits.
