Striga hermonthica or the Purple Witchweed is the single most important cause of poor maize yields, particularly in western Kenya, eliminating 60 to 100 per
Research has shown that smallholder farmers can increase milk yields for their animals by feeding them on a mixture of Napier grass and Desmodium. Napier
Early studies have found that nutrients like iron, calcium, magnesium and phosphorous were more easily digested and used by the body in goat milk than
Sorghum intercropped with desmodium in a push-pull technology which is appropriate and economical to the resource-poor smallholder farmers in the region as
A dairy goat feeding from its feeding trough. Rearing five goats for milk which requires low maintenance can earn a farmer Sh280, 560
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