Excess milk for school programme

THE GOVERNMENT'S decision to purchase 75,000 litres of fresh milk from local dairy farmers for the duration of the school year, has taken care of the problematic excess which was affecting the farmers.

The excess was created by Nestle Jamaica's decision to reduce by 20 per cent, the 3.2 million litres of fresh cow's milk it purchases annually from the local dairy farmers. Nestle said the decision was triggered by an overflow of milk in its storage and declining demand for some of its products.

The decision left the farmers with 75,000 litres of excess milk. However, they appealed to the Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke, who was instrumental in getting the Government to agree to purchase the excess for use in the Ministry of Education's Schools Feeding Programme.

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