Small scale farmers can now afford a smile after Kenya Dairy Board suspended the proposed draft dairy regulations of 2019 to allow public participation.
Officials at the Kenya Dairy Board were Monday locked in a daylong meeting at their offices based at NSSF Building Nairobi. And after almost eight hours, the board announced the suspension of what was now turning out to be controversial proposed rules aimed at governing the dairy industry.
The proposed regulations, which have since been deleted from the regulator’s website, proposed ramifications for farmers trading in raw milk directly to consumers.
The proposed regulations caused an uproar from peasant farmers who said they sell milk to neighbours because of their small scale farming.
n a notice released late last week, Kenya Dairy Board noted several factors which had led to a review of the current regulations.
The factors included
The suspension of the proposed dairy regulations means good news to many small scale dairy farmers who had claimed that the proposed rules were aimed at eroding the gains they had made in the sector over the years.