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Brookside dishes out Sh257m in farmer reward payouts
Brookside Dairy general manager milk procurement, Emmanuel Kabaki addresses dairy farmers on September 5, 2025 during the annual Nakuru County milk conference.
Photo credit: Boniface Mwangi I Nation Media Group
Farmers contracted by dairy processing firm Brookside have been paid Sh257 million for supplies made in the half-year to May 2025, under a scheme that rewards producers for milk quality and for surpassing supply targets.
Brookside’s General Manager for Milk Procurement, Emmanuel Kabaki, said the payout will benefit dairy groups and individual farmers who signed up for the programme and supplied raw milk between July 1 and November 30 this year.
“We are rewarding farmers who signed up for our scheme and were given raw milk supply targets, for both quantity and quality,” he said in a statement issued in Nakuru.
The bulk of the payout will go to farmers supplying the processor through dairy groups (Sh 118m million), while milk traders, large farms, and individual suppliers will pocket the remainder of the Sh257 million, according to data released by the processor.
The payout comes barely six months after the processor paid another Sh303 million in bonuses for milk supplied between December 1, 2024, and May 31 this year.
Mr Kabaki said the biannual payouts reward farmers who meet agreed supply targets in both quantity and quality.
Brookside, the country’s leading dairy processor, has intensified capacity-building programmes for farmers in key milk-producing regions as it seeks to grow its raw milk volumes.
“The reward scheme, now in its sixth year, is a statement of our excellent working relationship with our 160,000 raw milk suppliers. It has boosted the supply of high-quality milk, enabling us to tap into a larger share of high-value products,” Mr Kabaki said.
Brookside has intensified capacity-building programmes for farmers in key milk-producing regions as it seeks to grow its raw milk volumes.
This year alone, more than 60,000 farmers have benefited from Brookside’s extension services, including field-day training and the use of demonstration farms to showcase best practices in dairy enterprise management.
Supply chain
The firm is also strengthening its supply chain through environmentally friendly technologies that promote sustainable milk production.
Mr Kabaki said sustainable agronomic practices, such as agroforestry and the adoption of biogas as a clean energy source, help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
To support fodder establishment, Brookside has distributed nearly 250,000 cuttings of Super Napier and sweet potato vines to farmers this year.
