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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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I am thinking of retiring. I intend to rear cows and be selling fresh milk when am out of formal employment. Now,if my memory serves me right,i recall there was a time the sale of fresh milk had some controversial issues... like one can not sell unprocessed milk or something like that. Was a law passed to that regard? Can i still sell fresh milk within or in the neighboring towns in Nairobi without getting in trouble with authorities... i would want to do a clean business without cutting corners... at retirement time,who wants to be running around with city or county council askaris???
Please let me know any kind of info that you may have in this regard.
Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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@Wendz, Selling your milk to New KCC or Brookside saves you the hussle of having to run around with milk cans.Buying price,especially from Brookside is quite fair and they have collection points too. Yombo dhier....!! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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@Njung'e
yes. was thinking that i could later on add value to the milk than just sell it fresh... but the place will need to be known first,you know. so when introducing the other milk products,people can already identify with the place...
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2008 Posts: 2,723
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Wendz,
Yes,there is a law or by law in effect against selling raw milk but it is a dormant or dead law just like the one about not displaying or owning the Kenyan flag. More than 80% of all milk sold in Kenya is raw. Unless someone has beef with you it is unlikely that a retired enterprising lady will be arraigned in court for keeping dairy cows and selling raw milk. Having said that please consider the labour intensiveness of dairy farming especially since you want to engage in it in retirement. Productive dairy farming is very involving and has no holidays. Feeding is something you will have to plan for all year round and keep changing with changing seasons as the availability of certain feeds changes. Labour that is cheap and reliable is critical to your breaking even and most of all you must be there or have super controls or the cows can eat your pension. If you are thinking of zero grazing ensure you have a reliable water source all year round. I wish you well but I just wanted to point out that relaxing while farming is an oxymoron. You either do one or the other but never both.
Weusi wa nywele za mshtakiwa zaonyesha ujinga alio nao
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/6/2008 Posts: 3,585
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Do you milk the cow on the spot as i wait ama? Ninajua Yote! Ras Kienyeji Man
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/21/2006 Posts: 1,590
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If you mean hawking-I think there might be issues. Lakini if its the word of mouth e.g. mama waitherero sells milk kwa wingi,then its very do-able. The other is supplying hotels. To get to the level where you can make and sell yoghurts and the like,I think you may need to consult more knowledgeable farmers. Profitable dairy farming sio part-time lakini www.mjengakenya.blogspot.comSehemu ndio nyumba
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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@kusadikika
yes, i intend to be on the ground but also have some competent guys to help. I believe i can still afford a one week holiday here and there if i get good people and working systems.
@mainat
Yes,thats the route i intend to move that route may be open a milk parlour where you can get variety of hygienically packed fresh milk plus other products to be introduced with time.. not the hawking - hiyo siwesmek. umesikia ni na retire so will have lots of time plus if i can get good caretakers on a full time basis,i can still have some free time to do something else - or so i think.
Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/17/2007 Posts: 88
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@ wendz
Now you!!! Heeee why do you want to be competition to my grandmother and you went to school?? sasa u want to tell me they wasted money on you!!!
Anyway try processing the milk. Processing fresh milk will need just clarification and homogenisation. Then you pack it. === Legal way of doing it.
Setting up a small processing place in your backyard might just set u back like 100K but ull be 10 steps ahead when selling your milk!!
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/2/2006 Posts: 658
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Y are you retiring at that age? Make money both at bizna na jobo so if things dont work you can continue with your day job...ama?
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Rank: Member Joined: 6/16/2009 Posts: 100
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@ Dexco,tell more abt processing n packaging ur own milk.
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