Dairy tips from a small-scale milk man who made it

Alex Ndungu, a Dairy Farmer. He has adopted modern ways of keeping Dairy cows. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Dairy farmers, especially the smallholders who keep cows on a hectare or two of farmland, must adapt climate-smart practices or hang up their milk jars. This is because the frequent and prolonged droughts and rising costs of inputs is kicking peasant farmers out of business- if they were really in business in the first place. We used to have seasons of milk glut but now the dairy sector in Kenya is characterised by shortages and high consumer prices.