The Amalgamated Cow Milk Dealers Association in Kano has urged the State Agro-Pastoral Development Project to complete the construction of milk collection centres to facilitate the processing and storage of milk across the state.

The chairman of the association, Muhammad Alaramma, made the call during an interview at the Kofar Wambai Cow Milk Market, Kano, on Wednesday.

Mr Alaramma said the centres would boost milk storage across all selling points in Kano when completed.

He also urged the completion of the cold room being constructed by KSADP for the market.

Mr Alaramma said the facility should be equipped with solar-powered energy to preserve the freshness of the milk stored in the market. He said more than two million litres of milk were sold at the market daily, adding that the commodity was being sourced from various parts of the country, including Kaduna, Bauchi and Plateau.

Similarly, the chairman said daily about N200 million worth of transactions were recorded from the sale of milk at the market. He said the union had no fewer than 20,000 members, most of them young men and women.

Mr Alaramma commended the Islamic Development Bank for roofing the market and providing interlocking and a cold room for the market through the KSADP.

Before the provision of the roofing and the interlocking, he said, the market was virtually waterlogged and inaccessible during the rainy season.

The KSADP is constructing and equipping milk collection centres across milk-producing communities in Kano. Each centre would have a 550-litre milk storage tank and its accessories: solar-powered borehole, toilet facilities, solar lighting and an office. 

(NAN)