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Weekly Roundup of Agriculture Jobs-22nd September, 2023

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1. Position: Crop Protection Specialist  Location: Embu, Kenya Recruiter / Employer: Dummen Orange Salary: Shs(80,000-100,000) About the Position: As a Crop Protection Specialist at Fides Kenya, you won’t just be managing crops and teams; you’ll be optimizing their potential. Reporting directly to the Head Grower and collaborating closely with the Managing Director, your role is …

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Fact Sheet: Tackling the Growing Problem of Heat Stress in Livestock

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Smallholder farmers in the developing world should be implementing cheap and readily available solutions such as silvopastoralism, the provision of sheds, and crossbreeding to tackle the growing problem of heat stress in livestock. It is estimated that seven per cent of global cattle is affected by heat stress, a number that could rise to 65 …

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Canadian Veterinarian Asists Rural Farmers Triple Milk Output Through DIY Model

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A Canadian veterinarian’s 17 trips to Kenya to teach dairy farmers on good livestock management have not been in vain for it has tripled the milk yields of over six thousand small holder farmers who owns one to five acres and between one and three cows. Dr John VanLeeuwen a professor of Epidemiology and Ruminant …

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Farmers advised to grow drought-resistant crops as weatherman warns of failed short rains

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By George Munene The Kenya Meteorological Department has advised farmers to plant early maturing and drought-resistant varieties of crops, fodder, and pasture as it warns of a fifth consecutive unsuccessful rainy season over the October-November-December (OND) 2022 short rains season. According to its just-released report ‘The Climate Outlook for the October-November-December (OND) 2022 “Short Rains” …

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Zero-grazed cattle at 80% less risk of ECF

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A study by the In­ter­na­tional Live­stock Re­search In­sti­tute ILRI is ad­voc­at­ing for zero graz­ing sys­tem to con­tain tick borne dis­eases as it emerged that free range sys­tems ex­poses live­stock to ticks-in­creas­ing the chances of con­tract­ing dis­eases.  “An­im­als sub­jec­ted to zero-graz­ing sys­tems had 80 per cent lower chance of con­tract­ing East Coast Fever (ECF) than in …

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Dairy farmers raise incomes five fold through fodder conservation

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Dairy farmers across the country are counting an increase of milk yield by up to five fold during dry days and a concomitant swell in income, thanks to a training programme that shows them how to manage fodder and improve on livestock management. Dubbed Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme the project is helping rebuild profitable small …

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Tree lucerne: Hardy, nutritious fodder that grows for 30yrs

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Farmers growing tagasaste, tree lucerne, can feed livestock for close to 30 years with this hardy, leafy and protein rich fodder shrub. Besides being a nitrogen fixing tree, tagasaste has sweet scented flowers for bees. It is a highly palatable fodder for goats, cows, sheep and other livestock including poultry. Its digestibility is between 77 …

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Intercropping Napier and desmodium raises milk output

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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 grass is a spe­cies of per­en­nial trop­ical grass nat­ive to the African grass­lands. A ma­jor­ity of small scale farm­ers use the crop to feed their an­im­als in the dairy pro­duc­tion …

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