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New Murang’a milk factory helps stabilise prices

The milk processing plant established by Murang’a county government that is buying milk at Sh35 per litre.

A milk processing plant established by Murang’a county government is buying milk at Sh35 per litre, against the current under Sh30 that big processors like Brookside and New KCC are o­ffering to farmers, a development that could o­ffer direction on what counties should do to stabilize milk prices.

The county government has provided for guaranteed minimum returns for milk supplied to the plant located in the Maragua area. Murang’a Governor Mwangi wa Iria has termed the investment as being of great benefi­t to dairy farmers in the county who for many years have been exploited by brokers.

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