Milk industry 95% dependent on imports

To address this shortage, Rabasha said last year the government came up and implemented a strategy that focuses on development of the appropriate dairy support infrastructure.

In the strategy, ‘Viable Competitive and Profitable Dairy sector’  the MOA has set a local milk production target of  six million litres per annum  up from the current output of 2.4 million litres. Currently national demand stands at 48 million litres. “The country is not able to meet the target due to the challenges that we have, hence continues to import such products to meet the local demand,” Rabasha said.