Smart farmers use tube silage bags to boost dairy produce

Hellen Waweru shows silage storage bags at her farm in Njoro, Nakuru County. To prepare tube silage, farmers are required to have standard polythene paper bags sold at Sh300 per square metre. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard]

With climate change now a normal occurrence, farmers —livestock and crop —are realising they can no longer depend wholly on rain-fed agriculture.

For livestock farmers, they are also waking up to the reality that because rain-fed farming is unreliable, they have to think outside the box if they are to have sufficient animal feeds all year round.