Brookside Dairy has announced a cash reward payout of over Ksh.218 million to dairy farmers.

The amount 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 six-month period between 1st December 2023 to 31st May, this year.

The half-year payout, under a reward scheme operated by the firm, represents a 53.5 per cent increase over last year’s payout, during a similar period.

In a statement, Emmanuel Kabaki, Brookside’s General Manager for milk procurement said the farmers were rewarded for meeting agreed milk supply targets in both quantity and quality.

Kabaki added that the reward further cements the processor’s excellent working relationship with all their 160,000 raw milk suppliers across the country, besides boosting the supply of high-quality milk, thus enabling Brookside to tap into a larger share of high-value products

The farmer reward scheme was pioneered by Brookside six years ago as it sought to appreciate the critical role raw milk suppliers play in the upstream phase of the dairy value chain. The payout has been appreciating over the years, as the processor’s base of contracted farmers continues to expand.