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Chapter 8 – <strong>Dairy</strong>-<strong>in</strong>dustry development programmes: Their role <strong>in</strong> food [...] 325<br />

Box 8.3<br />

Feed<strong>in</strong>g the 9 billion – the role of dairy<strong>in</strong>g<br />

It is 7 a.m. at Kabiyet Dairies* <strong>in</strong> the emerald hills of western Kenya. The dairy is five miles<br />

down an almost impassable track, <strong>and</strong> you would th<strong>in</strong>k milk would turn to butter long before<br />

it arrives. Yet the place is heav<strong>in</strong>g with farmers wait<strong>in</strong>g for their produce to be tested, carry<strong>in</strong>g<br />

it <strong>in</strong> pails on trucks, on the backs of motorbikes or on their heads. The dairy opened<br />

only 18 months ago <strong>and</strong> may seem basic, yet it has just struck a deal to sell milk to an <strong>in</strong>ternational<br />

process<strong>in</strong>g plant <strong>in</strong> Nairobi. Farmers get 26 shill<strong>in</strong>gs (37 US cents) a litre, more than<br />

twice what they were paid before the dairy opened its doors.<br />

Kabiyet, Kenya<br />

Laban Talam, a 30-year-old villager, has a smile on his face. He farms just under a hectare<br />

on a hillside overlook<strong>in</strong>g the dairy. Two years ago he was scratch<strong>in</strong>g a liv<strong>in</strong>g, supplement<strong>in</strong>g<br />

his earn<strong>in</strong>gs from one cow, a native longhorn, with odd jobs outside farm<strong>in</strong>g. Now he has<br />

five cows, three of them Holste<strong>in</strong>s that give twice as much milk as the native breed. He rents<br />

extra l<strong>and</strong> from his neighbour, has rebuilt his house, grows p<strong>in</strong>eapples for export <strong>and</strong> has<br />

<strong>in</strong>stalled a biomass pump. His children go to a private school.<br />

Kabiyet Dairies, Kenya<br />

©Bill & Mel<strong>in</strong>da Gates Foundation ©East Africa <strong>Dairy</strong> Development

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