Kenya Loses About 95 Million Litres Of Milk Annually Through Wastage
KENYA - Kenya is losing 95 million litres of milk worth approximately $15 million annually mainly due to poor handling and hygiene, a government official has said.
8 August 2007
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“Poor feeding of milk producing cattle due to limited pasture is also curtailing production”, he said.
Speaking in Nairobi on Tuesday, he asked the Kenya Dairy Board to put in place measures that will require farmers to practice high hygienic standards when handling milk.
The volume of processed milk in the country now stands at one million litres a day, while the country has the capacity to process over 3.9 billion litres a day.
Okila also said the high cost of milk production in Kenya could make the local product less competitive in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa).
Source: Afrique en ligne
