Hub Model Milk Marketing, Lamu County

Two elements characterise milk production in Lamu County; milk glut and milk shortages during wet and dry seasons respectively. Milk wastage that decimated pastoralists’ hopes of improving their income, and high level of
exploitation by middle men were prevalent due to lack of an organised market. In 2015, key stakeholders, among them the agropastoral and pastoralist communities, the Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience
Project (RPLRP) and the County Government of Lamu, through the Department of Livestock and Cooperatives, made a decision to strengthen the Witu Cooperative. The model cooperative operates a central milk
hub at Witu with other collection centres strategically placed at Pangani and Koreni.