Even before he completes his first year at campus, Martin Kiburi is already earning more than a government-employed teacher.
After witnessing his father’s woes as a dairy farmer, he decided to add value to it.
After buying one cow from him on credit, he now makes yoghurt in his father’s home, which he sells at a milk bar in nearby Mukurwe-ini township.
Fresh
milk sells at about Sh35 per litre, and he makes Sh50 per litre profit
from the yoghurt. His grade cow produces 40-45 litres a day and he buys
the rest from his father.
“I no longer worry about
marketing my milk. He buys more than 150 litres from me every day,” says
Kiburi’s father, Charles Njoroge.
Father and son enjoy
a cordial business relationship. “We agreed that I would save for my
university education. I paid my First Year fees for myself,” says
Kiburi.
The food science and technology student is
planning to set up a cheese manufacturing unit as well as start making
ice cream by the end of next year. “I have already enjoyed the fruits of
one cow. I can only add more,” he says.
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