Key Highlights
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💰 Sh5 Billion Injection – Government invests in dairy, meat, and leather to boost productivity and create jobs
🥛 Dairy Expansion – Rollout of 230 milk coolers nationwide
🏦 Affordable Credit Access – Funds disbursed through the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC
🍖 Livestock Health & Breeding – Support for vaccination and breeding programme
👞 Leather Value Addition – Upgrading tanneries, training flayers, and promoting local manufacturing
The Government has injected Sh5 billion into the dairy, meat, and leather value chains to:
Boost productivity and profitability
Create jobs along the value chain
Enhance value addition and exports
Funds will be disbursed through the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) at low interest rates, using models like revolving funds and co-guaranteeing with SACCOs and MFIs.
230 milk coolers being distributed nationwide, including a 5,000-litre solar-powered cooler for Witu Cooperative in Lamu.
Expansion of cooperatives to tap into the 10-billion-litre dairy initiative.
Improved farmer payments and digitized services for transparency.
Support for vaccination and breeding programmes to enhance livestock quality.
Expansion of grazing and fattening projects, e.g., utilization of 25,000 acres of idle land in Lamu for meat and feed production.
Strengthened aggregation centres to reduce post-slaughter losses.
Investment in tannery upgrades and value addition to hides and skins.
Training of flayers and equipping slaughter points to improve quality raw materials.
Expansion of local manufacturing of shoes, bags, and belts to boost exports.
Stronger cooperatives driving rural prosperity.
Higher farmer incomes across dairy, meat, and leather.
Job creation across production, processing, and marketing.
Export opportunities opened through partnerships, including new markets in the US.
👉 This Sh5 billion package is transforming Kenya’s livestock sector into a driver of industrial growth, food security, and socio-economic empowerment.
Double national milk production under the 10-billion-litre dairy initiative.
Install 230+ bulk milk coolers across 40+ counties to cut post-harvest losses.
Modernize and expand New KCC plants to increase processing capacity.
Guarantee minimum farm-gate price of KSh 40 per litre to protect farmers’ incomes.
Expand vaccination coverage and strengthen animal health services nationwide.
Scale up breeding programmes for cattle, goats, sheep, and poultry to improve yields.
Develop meat processing hubs in arid and semi-arid counties (ASALs).
Support cooperatives to invest in feedlots and fattening programs.
Complete the Kenya Leather Industrial Park at Kenanie (Machakos County) with tanneries, manufacturing plants, and effluent treatment facilities.
Train 10,000+ flayers and equip slaughter points to improve hide and skin quality.
Increase tannery utilization from 25% to 100% by 2027.
Promote leather cottage industries and fashion MSMEs to grow exports of shoes, bags, and belts.
Provide affordable credit via AFC, SACCOs, and MFIs to smallholders and cooperatives.
Attract local and foreign investors in dairy, meat, and leather processing.
Strengthen cooperatives and farmer groups for aggregation and bargaining power.
Create over 300,000 new jobs across the livestock value chain by 2027.
👉 These commitments will transform the livestock sector into a pillar of food security, manufacturing, and export-led growth under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
🚧 18 CAIPs under construction across various counties.
🏢 Facilities include value addition centres and storage hubs for agricultural produce.
🌾 Designed to reduce post-harvest losses and boost farmer incomes.
📍 CAIPs are a strategic anchor of BETA’s agro-industrialisation drive.
🏗️ Expansion plan: scale up to all 47 counties by FY 2025/26.
💼 Focused on strengthening agro-processing, supporting SMEs, and creating jobs.
🌍 Establish a CAIP in every county to serve as a hub for aggregation, processing, and exports.
📦 Equip parks with cold chains, warehouses, and processing plants.
👩🌾 Link farmers, cooperatives, and SMEs directly to markets and industries.
📈 Contribute to higher incomes, reduced losses, and rural industrialisation.
| Area | Target/Delivery |
|---|---|
| CAIPs Constructed | 18 ongoing; full rollout to 47 counties by FY 2025/26 |
| Core Facilities | Aggregation centres, storage, value addition infrastructure |
| Main Goals | Cut post-harvest losses, boost incomes, enhance exports |
| Jobs Impact | Tens of thousands of jobs expected across value chains |
👉 CAIPs are the backbone of Kenya’s agricultural transformation — turning farming into agribusiness, connecting rural producers to markets, and powering inclusive industrial growth.
Fulfilling the Kenya Kwanza agenda, ensuring progress and prosperity for all Kenyans.
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