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Farmer defies cattle rustlers to keep modern breeds

To many people, Baringo County is home to cattle rustlers. But deep inside the mathenge grazing fields of Il Chamus land, Dickson Lenasolio, a former police officer is re-writing the script of cattle farming in the region.

His passion to change his community’s traditional approach to rearing cattle forced him to quit the Police Service after only three years. The 63-year-old then ventured into cattle breeding with only four heifers and a bull he bought using proceeds from his savings.

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