Blacks collected milk in less than a year

Due to lack of collection, farmers prefer to sell milk in markets and restaurants

He said the collection issues were known and they planned to find a solution so that breeders would have access to the collections next year.

“We plan to bring together farmers from Rukla when the hoard is discovered by next year at the latest,” he said.

Other breeders from Rukala district deliver their milk to collection centres at Buhabwa in Murundi district and Nyamiaga in Gashini district.

Some keepers say they have trouble getting these collections because they are so far away, so it’s best to find them yourself.

One person said: “Delivery from here to Buhabwa is really far and arrives half-night in advance. Those who take them to Nyamiaga are often robbed by the entrepreneurs who bring them.”

The farmers said some of them choose to sell their milk in nearby markets or give it to farmers and share the days, with farmers taking five days off a week and covering the remaining two days.

Kayonza District has over 75,000 cows and receives the equivalent of 25,000 litres of water per day in six (6) large gatherings and seven (7) small gatherings.

Another feature of the Kayonza region is that many farmers choose to sell their milk instead of collecting it because they have no stable market. All the milk will be sold at the Inyange factory, which recently built a milk powder factory that requires 650,000 liters of milk per day.