{"id":5143,"date":"2023-07-13T08:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T08:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2023-07-13T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T08:45:59","slug":"farmers-worry-over-reduction-in-milk-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/07\/13\/farmers-worry-over-reduction-in-milk-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Worry Over Reduction in Milk Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Peter Abanabasazi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dairy farmers in Kikuube district are concerned over the continued decline of milk prices, saying the enterprise is no longer profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Rwobushese, a dairy farmer in Kyarushesha village in Butoole parish, Kikuube district who supplies milk to Kyangwali Dairy Farmers\u2019 Cooperative Society, says prices being offered are very low.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for government intervention, Rwobushesi notes a litre of milk has come down from between Shs 800-900 to between Shs 600 -700.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that the low milk prices cannot even cover the cost of inputs such as drugs, labour, fodder, and food supplements that boost milk production.<\/p>\n<p>James Kanyakole, another dairy farmer in Kikuube district also appealed to the government to intervene and get them a better market, saying it would help farmers transform their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Kwesiga Karazi, the manager of Kyangwali Dairy Farmers\u2019 Cooperative Society attributed the drop in the prices to the increasing milk production in the district.<\/p>\n<p>He also attributed the drop in milk prices to the ban which was imposed on Ugandan milk by Kenya, adding that Kenya has been providing a good market for Ugandan milk.<\/p>\n<p>However, he challenged farmers to remain calm, adding that as milk traders, they are engaging the government to look for regional markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Abanabasazi Dairy farmers in Kikuube district are concerned over the continued decline of milk prices, saying the enterprise is no longer profitable. Charles Rwobushese, a dairy farmer in Kyarushesha village in Butoole parish, Kikuube district who supplies milk to Kyangwali Dairy Farmers\u2019 Cooperative Society, says prices being offered are very low. Calling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}