Governments pumps KSh2B for the modernization of New KCC!
-Modernization programme
has increased the income for hundreds of dairy farmers from sh 2.5 to sh 4.5 billion_
A team of the National Assembly’s Parliamentary committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperative led its chairman James Gakuya ( Right ) during a tour of the Eldoret New KCC factory where they were hosted by Managing Director Nixon Sigei ( second from Right ).
The government has pumped sh 2 billion on modernization of the
New KCC factories across the country, Managing Director Nixon Sigei
has said.
Sigei stated that the multi-billion shillings modernization programme
has increased the income for hundreds of dairy farmers who deliver
their produce to New KCC factories from sh 2.5 to sh 4.5 billion.
He was speaking at the Eldoret New KCC factory where he hosted a 10
member team from the National Assembly’s Parliamentary committee on
Trade, Industry and Cooperative led by its chairman James Gakuya who is
also Embakasi North MP.
Other committee members who were on a two days tour of New KCC
factories in the North Rift region included Marianne Kitany (MP Alda
)and his Keiyo North counterpart Adams Kipsanai.
Sigei said the modernization projects will go a long way in offering
quality services to the dairy farmers who have been suffering due to
lack of markets for their produce.
“”We have spend the money on installation of state of the art
equipment in our New KCC factories spread across the country to
enable the farmers earn better returns and at the same time the
increasing demand for the products” said Sigei
He said the process of the modernization project initiated by the
national government through New KCC was ongoing to ensure all the
factories are covered for the benefit of the dairy farmers.
Speaking at the venue, the committee chairman James Gauya
expressed satisfaction in the manner the New KCC top leadership has
utilized the money allocated to the company towards the modernization
of all the factories in a prudence manner .
“We can see the value for money on the installation of new equipment
work that has already been done on some of the New KCC factories
that we have toured in the North Rift region” Gakuya.
He challenged the management to hasten the installation of modern
equipment on the remaining factories now that the government has
already the requisite budget for the modernization programme.
The Kenya Kwanza administration Gakuyo assured was committed to
address any of the challenges bedeviling small scale dairy farmers
with a view to provide solutions so that they reap maximum profit
from the sector.
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