From Mustapha Adamu, Kano
The Businesses of cow milk in Kano, is booming following the intervention of the State Government and the Islamic Development Bank, IsDB, which improved the daily incomes of the market operators to N200 million daily.
Speaking to newsmen on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Cow Milk Marketers Association, Kano branch, Muhammad Ahmad Lawan Allarama, said that the market, located at Kofar Wambai, makes about N200 million sales of about 2 million litres daily.
He said the intervention of the IsDB and the state government had improved their markets to a standard, owing to the boom in the sales daily.
He said the state government through the IsDB donated over 100 generator sets to the association.
According to him, the IsDB had also donated 200 blending machines, cooling flask for milk storage and containers for selling the milk.
“What we benefitted from IsDB, in collaboration with the Kano state government is unprecedented. We could not run this business peacefully during rainy season. Now interlock has been provided and the market are sanitized by the IsDB.
“They distributed about 100 generators, 200 blending machines and containers. The IsDB has distributed empowerment package to 200 of our members.
“This is in addition to distribution of cooling flasks to 100 of our women members,” he said.
The Chairman explained that the association gets cow milk supplies of the cow milk from Bauchi, Nassarawa, Yobe, Gombe, Kaduna, among others.
Alramma however appealed to the government to bring more intervention for the overall development of the market and the association, which has over 20,000 members in the state.
According to him, the generator sets distributed to them had been rendered useless due to inability to afford diesel to power them, calling for the installation of the solar power at the market.
He also called for completion of the 40 milk collection centres, which he said none of them is functional in the state.
He also appealed for provision of cooling vans to the association, which according to him, would aid them in supplying the commodity from other states.
