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From skiing in Norway to dairy keeping in Kesses

Philip Boit with his cows at Chemina area in Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Philip Boit returned to Kenya four years ago after 20 years of skiing escapades in Norway and dived into dairy keeping with gusto.

Boit, 46, is the first Kenyan skier and first African to compete at the Winter Olympics cross country skiing. But in Kesses, Boit is on a race to redefine dairy farming on the plains of Uasin Gishu County, where most farmers grow maize and wheat on large scale.

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