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Workers at Naisambu dairy farm in Trans Nzoia County [Peter Ochieng, Standard]
Dairy farming has gained currency in Kenya thanks to the increase in population and demand for quality milk. With a litre of milk from the farm selling for as much as Sh60, the industry is lucrative. Most farmers have adopted semi- or zero-grazing systems of production thus concentrating on production per cow. This means keeping a few highly productive cows. Our grandfathers were famous for keeping many heads of cattle with very little production. Some farmers have gone into...
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