knbs ke.knbs.dairy-production.annual annual

Dairy Production, Marketed and Processed.

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How much milk Kenya's dairy sector recorded as marketed, and what processors turned it into, for the thirteen years to 2024. 52 observations across four series.

Recorded marketed milk production rose 83.4 per cent over the thirteen years, from 495.2 million litres to 908.4, and the wholemilk and cream that processors handled rose with it, 331.6 to 620.9 million litres in wholemilk equivalent. The share of marketed milk that shows up as processed wholemilk has stayed near seven tenths throughout: 67.0 per cent in 2012, 71.8 in 2018, 68.4 in 2024.

Everything else processors make has gone the other way. Butter and ghee fell 31.8 per cent, from 1,800.7 tonnes to 1,228.3, and has not approached its 2012 level since. Cheese fell 47.2 per cent, from 254.9 tonnes to 134.5, after peaking at 384.3 in 2018 and roughly halving in the two years to 2020.

So the sector nearly doubled the milk it handles while making a third less butter and half as much cheese: growth in liquid milk, contraction in everything with a longer shelf life.

These are recorded and marketed volumes, not total production. Milk consumed on the farm or sold outside recorded channels is not here, and in Kenya that is a large share of what is produced.

This dataset and ke.knbs.livestock-producer-prices.annual check each other through a third table: marketed milk times the whole-milk producer price reproduces the dairy value that ke.knbs.gross-marketed-production.annual publishes, in seven of the ten years they share, each to within its own rounding.

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WHAT THE DAIRIES MAKE

Kenya's dairies handle nearly twice the milk they did in 2012, and make half the cheese.

Milk marketed and processed, indexed to 2012 = 100 · 2012 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Dairy Production, Marketed and Processed (annual) · Updated 2026-08-23
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CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Dairy Production, Marketed and Processed [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-23. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.dairy-production.annual