Nkandone Dairy Farmers Society chairman Mr Douglas Mutugi supervises loading of gallons of milk onto a pick up ready for transportation to the processor in this photo taken in September 2021. The society has recorded low production due to drought and high cost of fuel.
Milk production in the Mt Kenya region has dropped by about 40 per cent due to drought, even as dairy farmers complain about high costs of production.
Farmers called for subsidies on animal feeds to be introduced, though President William Ruto’s new administration insisted that subsidies were unsustainable when he scrapped them for fuel and maize flour.
