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Farmers who supplied milk to the collapsed Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) have a reason to smile, after Deputy President William Ruto launched the payment of their dues.
This comes in the wake of last year’s move by the government to waive the Sh500 million debt owed by the collapsed firm. Addressing dairy farmers at the Chaka grounds in Nyeri yesterday during the launch of the programme, Ruto said the government would make sure all dairy farmers who delivered their milk to the collapsed KCC and were not paid received their dues in the next two days.
Ruto presented a Sh59 million cheque for Nyeri cluster and another Sh100 million for Nyahururu that would see 15,000 dairy farmers paid. “What we are doing today is the implementation of what we promised last year by waiving the Sh500 million owed by the collapsed KCC to dairy farmers,” said Ruto.
The Deputy President who also addressed dairy farmers in Nyahuru town, Laikipia County, said the move to pay the farmers was aimed at ensuring the new KCC runs smoothly to the benefit of farmers.
“We are now paying the dues owed to the farmers by the collapsed KCC so that the new one can continue to promptly pay farmers who supply milk to them,” said Ruto.
“Dairy farmers can now work with KCC without any fear that their produce cannot be paid,” he added. He urged the management of the new KCC to consider increasing prices of milk as a measure to promote and boost the morale of the dairy farmers.
He said there was need for KCC to borrow a leaf from the private milk processors who have increased the prices of the product by doing the same as a measure to promoting their customers.
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