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Organic dairy farming: Is it profitable or too risky deal?

Nominated MP Wilson Sossion tends to his goats at his Koibeyon farm in Bomet. (Gilbert Kimutai, Standard)

As the war against misuse of antibiotics intensifies, researchers say livestock account for the highest amount of abuse. The best tool to fight the abuse is organic farming which is, unfortunately, hindered by lack of access to farm inputs and markets as well as poor policy structures.

At a four-acre farm in Bomet County, Wilson Sossion formulates feeds for his 70 dairy cows. It is a venture that Mr Sossion started in April 2017 to unwind, away from his official duties at the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut). He started with five dairy cows.

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