Dairy farmers find pricing glory in co-operative front

Members of Kapng’etuny Dairies Self-help group deliver milk at the cooperative society in Ainabkoi, Uasin Gishu County. PHOTO | STANLEY KIMUGE | NMG

For many years, dairy farmers have been grappling with a lack of market for their produce, exposing them to unscrupulous brokers who buy their raw milk at throw-away prices and make a killing in major towns.

But a decision by a cooperative society on the border of Uasin Gishu and Elgeyo-Marakwet counties to come together is changing lives with the monthly turnover of Sh1.3 million.

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