Uganda, April 8 -- Over 500 dairy farmers in Namutumba District are finding it difficult to process and add value to their milk due to lack of a modern milk collection centre and functional milk cooler machine.

Under their organisation, Namutumba Dairy Farmers' Cooperative Savings and Credit Society, the farmers also say that despite producing over 4,000 litres of milk daily, they lack (milk) cans to assist them in marketing and grading.

Subsequently, they are using jerry cans to ferry milk which are not recommended by the Dairy Development Authority (DDA).

The DDA is a semi-autonomous agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries, mandated to develop and regulate the dairy industry in the country.

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