Dairy farmers contracted by processor Brookside have received a major boost after the firm announced a cash reward payout of KSh500 million.

The payout will benefit dairy groups and individual farmers across the country who signed up for the programme and have been supplying raw milk to Brookside in the period between 1st July to 30th November, this year.

Emmanuel Kabaki, Brookside’s General Manager for milk procurement said the payout, under a reward scheme operated by the firm, represents a 41 per cent increase over the last year’s earnings by farmers during a similar period.

Kabaki said farmers were rewarded for meeting agreed milk supply targets in both quantity and quality, adding that the beneficiary farmer groups and individual suppliers are those who signed up for our reward scheme and were given raw milk supply targets.

Brookside, the market leader in the country, has been carrying out aggressive capacity building programmes for farmers across key raw milk production sheds, as it seeks to further grow the volumes supplied.