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How I make livestock feed, oil from avocados

A mixture of avocado seeds, skins, and animal feeds mixed by 73-year-old Stephen Githongo at his millers in his home of Menengai West in Rongai Sub-County within Nakuru County on July 18, 2020. Githongo has invested in Avocado farming that is giving him, his family and livestock both health and food benefits. [Daniel Chege, Standard]

It was in 2002 when Stephen Githongo, 73, started farming his three-acre estate at Menengai West in Rongai Sub-County, Nakuru County, after retirement.

Prior to that, he had planted two avocado seedlings and 18 years later, Githongo is benefitting from his two trees that produce hundreds of avocados annually.

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