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22 lut 2022 · This study explored socioeconomic characteristics, motivation, perceptions and challenges of smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya.
1 sty 2020 · Small-scale farmers dominate Kenya's dairy industry that is among the largest and one of the most successful in Africa. Despite the dairy policies in place, the smallholder dairy...
The dairy industry, dominated by small-scale, is the most developed of the livestock sub-sectors in Kenya and is comparatively well developed relative to the dairy industries of other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Development of smallholder dairy production systems in the Kenya highlands has been
1 sty 2011 · This study examined trends in milk productivity and performance of the Kenyan smallholder dairy sector using a nationwide representative panel household data (2000-2010) and cross-sectional...
About 80% of Kenya’s total milk production is from small-scale farms (KDB 2013). Over 1.8 million smallholder households own between one to three cows. In aggregate terms, the smallholder sector owns over 80% of the national dairy herd estimated at 4.2 – 6.7 million cattle.
Dairying is a life line for the majority smallholder family farmers and entire pastoral communities of Kenya (3 million households) as sources of: (food, employment, cash income, manure to support crop production, and financing cash needs for social status).
Small-scale farmers dominate Kenya’s dairy industry that is among the largest and one of the most successful in Africa. Despite the dairy policies in place, the smallholder dairy farmers are still subsistent and are yet to attain global competitiveness.
