Dairy goats and milk marketing in Kenya
In the last decade, a silent agricultural revolution has been taking place in the larger Meru County in Kenya’s Eastern region.
In the mid-90s, Farm Africa, an international non-governmental organisation, initiated a dairy goat project in the larger Meru districts, aiming at alleviating poverty for the resource poor smallholder farmers.
Starting off with 130 Toggenburg goats- 90 buck and 40 does- the Farm Africa project linked up with 44 self-help groups in the region hoping to boost goat milk production and eradicate poverty.
The self-help groups –under the umbrella Meru Goat Breeders Association (MGBA) have now grown to 161 each boasting of an average 25 members.
The association also enjoys membership of private farmers who are not affiliated to any of the self-help groups.
And so as a prospective farmer in Kenya and the East Africa region, where can you get dairy goat breeding stock? Where do you sell your young stock, milk? Email me!
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