| ID: | 69293 |
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| Country: | Kenya |
| Title: | Kenya, Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme, November 2015 |
| Description: | Benjamin Kemboilives, Tuigoin village, northern Kenya. He decided to give dairy farming a try – albeit with no experience. “When I embarked on this journey, I thought that with dairy farming my family would at least have some milk to drink,” said Benjamin. With the small saving from his former job, he purchased two traditional cows that produced an average of two litres each per day. In 2009, as he was walking to the village market, Benjamin saw a poster announcing that the IFAD-supported Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme was providing training to young people who wanted to engage in dairy farming. Benjamin applied and joined the training. He was soon trained in livestock feeding and more specifically how to improve pasture and fodder production, how to market dairy products and in dairy enterprise management. He then decided to sell the two traditional cows and buy a better breed, one that could produce an average of 15 litres per day. Now, Benjamin owns a grazing unit and has grown his herd to eight dairy cows that allow him to have an average of 15 litres of milk each per day. Benjamin is training the other young dairy farmers. He has an average of 100 paid trainees a year who pay him 100 Kenyan schillings to learn. “The young people in the village see how dairy farming has transformed my life. Now they are keen to rise to the challenge and want to replicate my experience.” |
| Size: | 3.46 MB; 4272 x 2848 pixels; 362 x 241 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1130 x 754 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | David Paqui |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/ David Paqui |
| Categories: | none |
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