Milk prices shoot up as dry spell hits
Milk prices have suddenly gone up from Shs2,000 per litre to Shs2,800, leaving consumers with tough choices to make.
According to consumers, options are rather limited as they will now have to either cut back on milk consumption or put up with exorbitant prices, which is unlikely, or even give up altogether taking milk until such a time that the prices of the nutritious product gets back to within affordable range.
In recent weeks, supermarkets, particularly in Kampala, have been secretly increasing prices of milk without warning the public. Nearly all supermarkets were selling a litre at between Shs2,200 and Shs2,800. And for a country like Uganda, where most of the population still survives on at least a dollar a day, that price is high.
Ms Aisha Chandiru, a resident of Kibuli, said she could no longer afford milk because she could not keep up with the price increase. "It was just recently when I bought a litre at Shs1,600, then before I knew it, it shot to Shs1,800 and then suddenly Shs2,000 and now Shs2,400, This is a dangerous trend!" she said.
Mr Henry Lwanga, a father of three, said he had also been forced to cut on quantity. Instead of buying a litre, he now buys half - just enough for his youngest child. "Not until the price drops to at least Shs1800, I am off milk," he said.
Industry players say normally, around this time of the year, supply tumbles due to the prolonged dry spell, which affects pasture and water for the animalss.
In Kabale District, a litre goes for Shs700. In Rukungiri, it is at Shs600, while in Fort portal and Mbarara, vendors sell a litre at Shs1, 000, yet previously milk prices were much less than Shs500.
The southwestern manager Dairy Development Authority (DDA), Mr Steven Aikiriza, said the trend was bound to happen given the current supply constraints. "All giant milk plants (Sameer, Jesa and Pearl) are all buying milk a little expensively and this was bound to be passed to the consumers," he said.
"The three major processors buy a litre at either Shs920 or Shs1,000. This is good news to the farmers because it's the highest increase so far in years." However, according to Mr Aikiriza, for retail shops to sell at more than Shs2,000 is more of "greed".
In an earlier interview, the DDA executive director, Ms Jolly Zaribwende, said production had fallen by about 35 per cent due to the dry spell. And according to experts, the dry season is set to continue until September.
And owing to the fact that cooperatives announced a 45 per cent increment in milk prices earlier in the month, industry analysts say this is likely to be passed over to the consumers.
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