The government, through the Dairy Development Authority (DDA), has stepped up efforts to boost the quality and production of milk countrywide.

The DDA is a government agency responsible for the provision of dairy development and regulatory services aimed at promoting milk production and consumption, and the attainment of a profitable dairy industry sector.

However, according to its performance, the milk prices at international, national, and regional levels have been high with limited volatility compared to the previous year. In over role milk production rose significantly to 3.22 billion liters from 2.8 despite of the reported drought in the milk shed.

The executive director Akankiza-Samson-Mpiira says that the reason why they are empowering dairy production is to ensure that there is enough milk production regardless of the high prices that were in eastern, and northern farm gates.

He added they have trained over more than 85,032 dairy farmers, advanced into modern dairy production, and they have supplied also equipment to these farmers to ease the work of the dairy production business.

They have also targeted the youth and women to engage them in the sector such that they solve the issue of unemployment in the country. the Dairy Development Authority has also is planning to upgrade the Entebbe Dairy training school which will be training people who can become professional dairy technicians.

Uganda is now the second in dairy production and all Ugandans have been encouraged to support this sector for the development of the country.