PRESS RELEASE Consultative Workshop on Sustainable Partnerships in formal and informal milk marketing for enhanced market access and compliance Nairobi Safari Club, 16th August 2016 Institutional overviews Kenya Dairy Board: Is a regulatory body in the Kenyan dairy industry established by an Act of Parliament, the Dairy industry Act Cap 336. In addition, the Board undertakes developmental and promotional roles to promote the development of the Kenya dairy industry. The primary role of the Board is to ensure quality and safety of milk and milk products for the local and export markets. The processes, technologies, equipment, procedures, standards and practices in the entire value chain are therefore given regulatory focus as they impact on the quality and safety of the final product. Kenya Markets Trust: Is a Kenyan organization that works in partnership with the private sector, county & national governments, stakeholders' associations and local and international partners to unleash large scale, sustainable market growth by changing the underlying incentives, capacities and rules that shape how market systems work. The organization focuses on agricultural market systems and value chains to create wealth and promote growth. This will achieve the organization's long-term goal of delivering large scale, systemic change in selected markets that benefits all players including small businesses, larger firms, investors, producers and consumers, and the country at large. Workshop background Kenya has a large market for milk and milk products which is served by formal and informal marketing channels. The former controls approximately 30% of the market which means informal marketing is dominant especially in rural, semi-rural and low middle class estates in urban centers. While the two marketing channels source their milk from the same pool of dairy farmers, there are significant differences on how the milk is handled and prepared for sale. Quality challenges that arise at the farm level may therefore be common for the two channels. However, the quality and safety of the milk at the market end is normally very different. Informal milk marketing, despite playing a key role in accessing milk to a large number of consumers, is constrained by several challenges, the most significant being the threat on consumer safety. This threat arises from the poor milk handling practices common among the milk traders which include;
PRESS RELEASE Consultative Workshop on Sustainable Partnerships in formal and informal milk marketing for enhanced market access and compliance Nairobi Safari Club, 16th August 2016 Institutional overviews Kenya Dairy Board: Is a regulatory body in the Kenyan dairy industry established by an Act of Parliament, the Dairy industry Act Cap 336. In addition, the Board undertakes developmental and promotional roles to promote the development of the Kenya dairy industry. The primary role of the Board is to ensure quality and safety of milk and milk products for the local and export markets. The processes, technologies, equipment, procedures, standards and practices in the entire value chain are therefore given regulatory focus as they impact on the quality and safety of the final product. Kenya Markets Trust: Is a Kenyan organization that works in partnership with the private sector, county & national governments, stakeholders' associations and local and international partners to unleash large scale, sustainable market growth by changing the underlying incentives, capacities and rules that shape how market systems work. The organization focuses on agricultural market systems and value chains to create wealth and promote growth. This will achieve the organization's long-term goal of delivering large scale, systemic change in selected markets that benefits all players including small businesses, larger firms, investors, producers and consumers, and the country at large. Workshop background Kenya has a large market for milk and milk products which is served by formal and informal marketing channels. The former controls approximately 30% of the market which means informal marketing is dominant especially in rural, semi-rural and low middle class estates in urban centers. While the two marketing channels source their milk from the same pool of dairy farmers, there are significant differences on how the milk is handled and prepared for sale. Quality challenges that arise at the farm level may therefore be common for the two channels. However, the quality and safety of the milk at the market end is normally very different. Informal milk marketing, despite playing a key role in accessing milk to a large number of consumers, is constrained by several challenges, the most significant being the threat on consumer safety. This threat arises from the poor milk handling practices common among the milk traders which include;