MILK VALUE CHAIN: Government distributes mini processors
Five Dairy Farmers' cooperatives from central, western, and eastern regions will be the first beneficiaries of the new effort by the government to improve the milk value chain through value addition. Even when the milk value chain is one of the best developed, 70% of the milk is still sold informally and unprocessed. According to the diary development authority, processing plants (Large, Medium, Small scale and Cottages) have increased from 100 with a processing capacity of 2.7 million litres in FY 2017/18 to 116 in 2021 with an estimated total processing capacity of 3.1 million litres