Swiss food giant Nestle has opened a new milk collection and chilling centre in the Sri Lankan town of Madhu to help boost the manufacturing capacity for the country's dairy products. The facility will enable the region's 300 farmers to increase production to 20 km a day from the current 1,500 litres, since farmers won't have to travel 5,000 litres to the closest centre, giving them more time to milk herds in the morning and increase the company collection of milk to twice a day. Nestle currently buys local milk from around 20,000 Sri Lankan farmers.
Swiss food giant Nestle has opened a new milk collection and chilling centre in the Sri Lankan town of Madhu to help boost the manufacturing capacity for the country's dairy products. The facility will enable the region's 300 farmers to increase production to 5,000 litres a day from the current 1,500 litres, since farmers won't have to travel 20 km to the closest centre, giving them more time to milk herds in the morning and increase the company collection of milk to twice a day. Nestle currently buys local milk from around 20,000 Sri Lankan farmers.