Brookside Dairy supports Kenyan farmers

Brookside Dairy (Kenya), one of the leading dairy companies in East Africa, has decided to pay an extra shilling for every litre of milk supplied by dairy farmers, starting 1 April.

“As the country implements far-reaching measures to contain the coronavirus and its threats to the economy, we decided to increase farm-gate prices of milk that will not only boost the dairy farming businesses but also help minimise the negative financial impacts on the dairy farming community,” said Brookside Dairy Director of Milk Procurement and Manufacturing, John Gethi.

The latest price increase comes less than two months after the Kenyan company, which controls 40% of the national raw milk market, effected a Sh7 per kilo increase in prices to Sh35, the highest in the country.

Brookside has an installed processing capacity of 1.5 million litres of milk per day, operating over 60 raw milk cooling stations in 27 milk-producing counties.

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