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Protect farmers too, to save dairy industry

35-year-old Josphat Getitu attending to his dairy cows at home at White house in Nakuru county.Photo: Kipsang Joseph/Standard

The Trade and Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has outlined a number of measures that he will implement to ease the current pricing shock being experienced in the dairy industry by farmers.

Sadly, though, the measures are more protective of the processors than the producers. This is an irony because it is the producers, the farmers who are suffering from the drastic price drop.

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