. Vaccinating goats against peste des petits ruminants in Kenya. Photo:Martin Karimi Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles facing smallholders and herders trying to increase their meat and milk productivity. Endemic in 12 countries in eastern, central and southern Africa, the disease, transmitted by parasite-infected ticks, […]
A veterinary officer vaccinates cows in Kapteldon, Uasin Gishu County. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA. Ugandan scientists from the National Agricultural Livestock Research Institute (NaLRI), in Eastern Uganda, are using genetic material obtained from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, in their efforts to develop an ant tick vaccine to aid local livestock farmers. This comes
Dairy attendant pouring milk into a cooler. Busia County intends to intall milk coolers in three of its co-operatives to help in preserving the dairy product for the farmers.Photo courtesy. Busia County dairy co-operatives namely Adungosi, Nambale and Busibwabo are each set to benefit from a milk cooler machine which will see milk supplied to
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Piglets eating from sweet potato vines. Pig feeds are expensive, taking up to 80 per cent of a farmer’s production costs. With pig farming becoming popular due to increased pork consumption in most of Kenya’s urban areas agriprenuers can earn even more by making pig feeds given a bag of pig feed
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