NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – The Kenyan milk market industry regulator has announced that the country is planning to import 200 million litres from its East African neighbours.
China News Agency reported that the quantity is only for this year and that East African countries would be targeted as the primary sources of imports.
Xinhua quoted Ms Margaret Kibogy, the Managing Director of Kenya Dairy Board (KDB), as saying Kenya is not self-sufficient in production due to rising consumption fuelled by rising incomes and urbanisation.
“We typically rely on the EAC trading bloc, which has liberalised trading to meet the consumer demand for milk,” Ms Kibogy told Xinhua during the Agri-Food Safety Programme forum.
She said imports from outside the East Africa Community economic bloc were limited to specific dairy products that were not available in the region to cushion the local sector.
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