Uasin Gishu county is home to thousands of small-scale farmers producing an average of 14 liters of milk per day.
Most of these farmers don’t make profits from the daily supply of milk sold to middlemen. Elkeiyo Dairies Limited is a Milk processing company located at the border of Uasin Gishu and Elgeyo Marakwet counties established in 2018. The company is the solution to thousands of liters of milk that used to go to waste due to spoilage and other challenges faced by the farmers ranging from exploitation by middlemen, lack of storage facilities, bad roads, and expensive feeds.
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