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Kenya to host international poultry expo next year

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Chicken in a coop. [iStockphoto]

Demand for poultry products is on the rise in Kenya driven by an emerging middle-class in new urban settlements largely due to devolution.

To feed the appetite, an estimated 1.5 million birds are slaughtered weekly from a population of some 35 million fowls being fed for meeting the increasing demand.

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