Animals

Solar incubators have enabled a farmer in Bomet to move from just selling kienyeji eggs to hatching and selling his own improved day-old kienyeji chicks quadrupling his income. Every month for the last two years Gilbert Korir hatches at least 400 KARI-improved kienyeji, Kuroiler, and Kenbro chicks from his two solar-powered incubators. He sells these […]

Pastoralists are turning the invasive and poisonous Mathenge weed into an animal feed with high protein to rescue them during Kenya’s worsening droughts. Isiolo and Garissa counties have invested in Mathenge Maisha Animal feed while in Baringo farmers are using mathenge (Prosopis juliflora) seedpods as the main ingredient in making animal feeds that are an

By Henry Jami Mang’eni The five top goat diseases in Kenya account for 66 per cent of all goat deaths in Kenya. This makes them the most important determiner of how much profit a farmer makes.  Here is a complete guide on how to deal with them. This is a serious disease that affects goats. It

A beef farm in Transmara County has cut its feed costs by 100 per cent by replacing expensive grains and concentrate fodder with freely available sugarcane waste. During sugarcane processing to make sugar about 28 per cent of the cane is left behind as sugarcane bagasse. This is usually a fine powdery waste product that

Growing drought-tolerant Lablab or Njahi fodder is a livestock saver that could prove critical to farmers and herders as Kenya heads into renewed drought. During Kenya’s severe 2022 drought, 2.5 million livestock valued at Sh50 billion died from a lack of feed and water. To protect their animals from the oncoming drought more than half

Savvy livestock and poultry farmers are researching and formulating their own animal feeds from abandoned food crops and ‘waste’ products that outperform the nutritional value of storebought feeds. In its booklet, low-cost homemade supplement for dairy cows, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) states that commercial feeds are 20 per cent of the

By Henry Jami Mang’eni Pioneering dairy companies are moving to reward farmers with bonuses for supplying clean milk that has a low number of bacteria and is high in butterfat. This FarmbizAfrica guide will help you learn how to produce quality milk that will earn you up to 30 per cent more than the current average

By Fadhili Fredrick A Sh1.06 million community grant has transformed the lives of a women-led octopus fishing group in Pate Island, Lamu county. Shanga Ishakani Women Fisher Group got the funds from Kenya Marine Fisheries and Socio-Economic Development (KEMFSED). In a phone interview with FarmbizAfrica the group’s founder and chairperson Ms Amina Ahmed said they

In two years, the Samaki Safi self-help group has gone from receiving free pond liners, tilapia fingerlings, and free fish feed from the Kirinyaga County Government to supplying Sh 826,800 of tilapia every eight months to local fishmongers. After applying for the Wezesha Kirinyaga Economic program in 2021, the group of 15 mostly young farmers

Tanzania is driving up its goat export market to record levels by harnessing its abundant underused land, overflowing water sources and introducing improved Galla and Boer goat breeds from Kenya through the porous Namanga border. According to the country’s Minister of Livestock and Fisheries Abdallah Ulega meat exports jumped from 1,774.3 tonnes in 2022 to