Raw milk? That’s a raw deal, do yoghurt

A sample goats yoghurt that Johnson Maringa a dairy farmer at Kiawarigi Village in Mathira, Nyeri County produces. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

“Daktari, I am a dairy farmer producing an average of 50 litres of milk per day. I sell some to our co-operative (about 20 litres) and the remaining 30 litres I sell through my local milk bar. I have loyal customers who visit my milk bar daily and recently one of them challenged me to do value addition on the milk to get more cash. Kindly shed more light on how I can achieve this..” This was Wamaitha’s email.

What Wamaitha’s customer noted is true. Value addition is the in thing in agriculture.