Dairy company Miraka offers 20 cent bonus to suppliers under farming excellence scheme

Dairy company Miraka offers 20 cent bonus to suppliers under farming excellence scheme
Fiona Rotherham
By Fiona Rotherham Dec. 9 (BusinessDesk) - Miraka, a minnow in New Zealand's multi-billion dollar export dairy processing industry, has introduced a new farming excellence programme that will pay a premium of 20 cents per kilogram of milk solids above its base milk price. The predominantly Maori-owned Miraka, which started in 2011, has a whole milk powder factory and UHT plant at Mokai, 30 kilometres northwest of Taupo. It has nearly 100 farmer suppliers within an 85 km radius of its factory who are paid the going farmgate milk price o...