Eldoret has been the home of milk for many years.
Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) and Brookside who are among the leading milk producers in Kenya have headquarters in Eldoret town.
Milk prices have skyrocketed in the last two weeks. As if that is not enough, milk vendors have complained about milk shortage.I sought to find answers to this puzzle and here is what is happening:
“The amount of milk we used to buy in wholesale has terribly reduced, we have been forced to hike our prices so as to maintain our profits”, said Irene Tanui, a milk vendor in Eldoret’s Roadblock estate.
Last week the KCC boss Nickson Sigei had warned via a press release that there will be milk shortage in the next two months.
Laban Omondi who works in milk ATM in Eldoret expressed his worries saying that "We were forced to hike the price of one litter from Sh60 to Sh70 due to milk shortage and bad prices”.
A number of milk vendors have wondered why milk is gradually disappearing from the market and pleaded with the KCC to urgently intervene.
“I have not been selling milk in this shop since last week because the distributors are not showing up. They say there is little milk, besides, the Kenya Bureau of Standards is on the watch out for counterfeit milk and that could just be another reason for milk shortage here”, said Douglas Bowen, a milk vendor in Kapsoya estate.
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