{"id":13029,"date":"2024-02-12T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13029"},"modified":"2024-02-12T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:47:27","slug":"milk-prices-will-increase-to-ksh-60-from-ksh-45-in-coming-months-dp-gachagua-tells-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13029","title":{"rendered":"Milk prices will increase to Ksh.60 from ksh.45 in coming months, DP Gachagua tells farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/428386927_780018600813574_7092080567797286071_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/428386927_780018600813574_7092080567797286071_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/428386927_780018600813574_7092080567797286071_n-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 526px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dairy farmers are set to earn more following quick interventions by the government to deal with a milk glut that threatened to wipe out higher prices, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Gachagua said the government had intervened by allocating Ksh.900 million to the Kenya Cooperative Creameries to buy the milk to stop the prices from dropping owing to the extra production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of the intervention, milk prices will rise to Ksh.50 per litre up from Ksh.45 beginning March 1, 2024. The Deputy President said they seek to increase the prices to over Ksh.60 per litre in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13031\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a government, we released Ksh.900 million to stabilise the prices in the milk sector after a glut following the heavy rains. The prices at Kenya Cooperatives Creameries will be raised from Ksh.45 per litre to Ksh.50 from March 1 and up to Ksh.60 in the coming months,\u201d Mr Gachagua said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DP asked dairy farmers to supply milk to the New KCC to earn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Gachagua spoke on Sunday when he attended a Holy Mass at St Andrew Kaggwa Catholic Church in Kwanza Constituency, Trans Nzoia County. He also presided over a fundraiser for building the new premises for the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Deputy President also asked farmers in Trans Nzoia to increase acreage under maize saying the government had released adequate subsidized fertilizer which is being sold at Ksh.2,500 per 50kg bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dairy farmers are set to earn more following quick interventions by the government to deal with a milk glut that threatened to wipe out higher prices, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has said. Mr Gachagua said the government had intervened by allocating Ksh.900 million to the Kenya Cooperative Creameries to buy the milk to stop the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13032,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions\/13032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}