Nine key guides to running a successful dairy enterprise

Barrack Oyombe, 35, attends to his dairy cows at his farm in Withur village in Nyando Kisumu county. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Dairy farming has gained currency in Kenya thanks to increase in population and demand for quality milk. With a litre of milk from the farm selling for as much as Sh60, the industry is lucrative.

Most farmers have adopted semi- or zero grazing systems of production thus concentrating on production per cow. This means keeping a few cows which are highly productive.