By Our Correspondents
The leading dairy consultancy firm is set to help the country develop a programme that will see professionals in the sector effectively address various concerns.
Tanolope Consultancy has, over the years, been concerned with the lack of efficient sector’s workers who can effectively assist thousands of stakeholders in maximising profits.
Through its Chief Executive Officer Alex Gathii, the consultancy firm is working out with various stakeholders, which include learning institutions and organisations dealing with the multi-billion sector.
Such institutions include the Kenya Dairy Board and the University of Nairobi.
Speaking during a Inooro TV morning show last month, Gathii disclosed that his private firm that has presence in 12 countries in Africa took part in establishment of a journal by the Dairy board titled, “Kenya Dairy Industry Sustainability Roadmap”, which articulates various issues that the stakeholders should take to consideration in order to maximise milk production in the country.
Some of the issues Gathii noted include how to double the country’s milk production from the current 5.4 billion litres per year to about 10.4 litres.
This, he further noted, can be achieved through an increase of a cow daily production from the current 10 litres to 20 litres.
Kenya, he said, has huge potential of local and export of the commodity and thus, the increase of the product will not affect the price of the same.
Currently, he disclosed, the country produces 95 per cent of its consumption capacity.
The major concern that most professionals in the sector are not able to address, he said, is how best to make feeds which can allow the cows yield more milk.
Most of the agricultural based professionals joining the sector, he noted didn’t have the capacity to address that issue as well as others that are crucial for maximum profitability.
These include how to set up a good cow shed, how and when to feed the dairies.
To address the critical issue, he said, his firm had sought to help the stakeholders, which he hoped would turn around.