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Kenya: Nyeri Farmers Introduce Coffee-Flavoured Yoghurt to the Market

Published Nov 19, 2020

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A milk processing factory in Nyeri county, Mukurweiini Wakulima Cooperative Society, has partnered with Dedan Kimathi university to produce coffee-flavoured yoghurt, aiming to boost milk farmers' income. The product, 'Royal coffee yoghurt', highlights Nyeri county's premium coffee and milk. The university's Vice Chancellor, professor Ndirangu Kioni, views this as a way to commercialise agriculture. Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Peter Munya, has called on universities to develop innovations to benefit agribusiness and for parliament to pass regulations to increase farmers' profits.
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Nyeri — As milk farmers countrywide battle with low prices of their produce, a milk processing factory in Nyeri county has parternerd with a local university in produce coffee flavoured yoghurt. In what is seen as an effort to market the products as one package, Mukurweiini Wakulima Cooperative Society in collaboration with Dedan Kimathi univesity have developed the product chirstenised "Royal coffee yoghurt. Speaking during the launch of the product at Kimathi University, the society's chairman Muhika Mutahi says that they came up with the product after realising that the two are the mainstay of the county famed more for premium coffee in the world market. "We as society realised that farmers who suppy milk to us are also in coffee sector, so we approached the univesity who did research and came up with this product.This to us is a boost to our farmers who will be able to kill two birds with one stone since those who will buy milk will also be impressed by the best coffee in the ...
Source: All Africa
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