PAMLOMO-SAUTI YA JAMII

Acting Njombe Regional Commissioner Anatory Choya made the call at the weekend when speaking during the launch of National Milk Week 2016, held at the national level in Njombe Region. Choya who is also the Ludewa District Commissioner, said milk was rich in protein and calcium and if taken adequately it could solve many nutritional disorders in children. “It is important for district, municipal and city councils to ensure that dairy farming projects are established in their respective areas of jurisdiction to ensure milk is available to school children,” the RC said. He described milk as an important diet that could help children develop their full potential mentally and physically. “But it’s so sad that there are few people who drink milk on a regular basis. In Njombe, only 52 per cent of the population drink milk,” he said, suggesting that if milk drinking programmes were introduced in schools children would take the culture as part of their lives. He said...