Murang’a County director of livestock production peter Nyamora has said the county will give farmers Sh5 per liter of milk as an incentive meant to increase the county’s production of milk.
The county director of livestock production, Peter Nyamora, speaking at a public participation forum on County Integrated Development Projects, stated that the dairy farmers will be required to sell their milk through a cooperative in order to benefit from this policy.
The incentive is meant to increase the county’s production of milk from 60,000 litres per day to 1 million in the new electronic voucher based subsidy policy
The director said that the county statistics put the cost of production per litre of milk at between Sh27 and Sh.32 while the farmers sell the milk at between Sh33- 42.
“The registered cooperatives must be professionally managed and will be subjected to regular audits by the county in order to avoid cases of fraud,” he said.
“The registered cooperatives must be professionally managed and will be subjected to regular audits by the county in order to avoid cases of fraud,” he said.
Quality control officers from the county will be required to assess the quality of the produce so that farmers do not take advantage of the programme and deliver substandard products.