Taita farmers bet on demo farms to increase yields

John Gethi, Brookside Dairy’s milk procurement director. [File, Standard]

Dairy farmers in Taita Taveta County are banking on the use of demonstration farms to reduce costs of production for better incomes from the enterprise.

Under a partnership with processor Brookside Dairy, the farmers are using the demo farms as effective extension education points where they go to learn about appropriate on-farm practices that lead to reduced production costs through increase of milk production per cow.