Others can learn from Nyandarua’s successes

KENYA: With approximately 317,000 head of dairy cattle and an annual milk production of 234 million litres valued at Sh7.024 billion, Nyandarua County has dominated conversations on Kenya’s livestock sector.
Few, however, have ever noticed that the current milk productivity and breed yield potential in Kenya needs urgent improvement, in order to give value to livestock farmers across the calendar year, even when rainfall-based feed has declined.

This is the context in which Nyandarua County Government has, in recent days, subsidised its Artificial Insemination (AI) programme to improve genetic potential and the value a farmer receives upon the selling of dairy animals.
We want this programme to benefit both small-scale and medium-scale producers.