[Source: People Daily, by Mwangi Mumero]
Camel milk traders and experts are lobbying the government to create a policy framework and quality control measures that will enhance the sale of the product and result in immediate benefits to farmers.
They argue inclusion of camel milk as a key product serves to bring organised market chain and production, improved nutrition, reduce of hazards in milk and dairy products as well as facilitate planning, organisation and decision making for the value chain actors for the sustainability of the industry.
Kenya has the fifth largest camel herd in the world estimated to number 1.06 million traditionally kept by the Somali, Rendille, Gabbra and Turkana communities living in the country’s harshest arid and semi-arid lands of North and North-Eastern Kenya…
