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MPs demand ban on milk imports

President Uhuru Kenyatta samples a milk product when he commissioned an Ultra Modern UHT Production Unit at the KCC Eldoret Factory. Photo: File

A parliamentary committee wants the government to stop the importation of milk, saying cheap imports is killing the local industry.

Legislators yesterday turned the heat on the Agriculture ministry, which they accused of overseeing the death of the dairy sector by allowing cheap imports from Uganda, thus causing a glut and sharp the decline in producer prices.

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