The report says that in 2009, Kenya earned Ksh64 billion from 3.7 billion litres of milk and only 200 million litres of milk is processed by the various manufacturers the rest is consumed a homes, sold raw or considered a waste because it did not meet the required standard for manufacturing.

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Animal feed manufacturers all over Kenya are shutting their doors and many others are operating at half capacity and struggling to cover their costs, according to the Association of Kenya Feed Manufacturers (Akefema).

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The research, aimed at finding the biological keys to protection from a single-celled trypanosome parasite that causes both African sleeping sickness in people and a wasting disease in cattle, brought together a range of high-tech tools and field observations to address a critical affliction of some of the world’s poorest people.

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Kaki Village Enterprises, today valued at Sh10 million, was started in 2002 with a capital of just Sh600, and the iron will of the owner to innovate in the poultry industry by rearing different poultry breeds.

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Called 'Candling box', farmers can use the kit to know which hens lay eggs that cannot be hatched and are due for culling, according to Business Daily of Kenya.

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Global trade talks meant to help poor countries prosper are "on the verge of failure" due to vast differences among countries, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said last Thursday.

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Kenya needs to consolidate its separate agricultural exchanges to increase the commodities traded and attract new ones, but it needs a new law to achieve that.

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Children’s malnutrition organization, Vitamin Angels, is distributing more than 345,000 zinc tablets to help prevent children’s deaths due to diarrhea, thanks to a donation by Novus International.

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IT IS 7am at Kabiyet Dairies in the emerald hills of western Kenya. The dairy is five miles down an almost impassable track, and you would think milk would turn to butter long before it arrives. Yet the place is heaving with farmers waiting for their produce to be tested, carrying it in pails on trucks, on the backs of motorbikes or on their heads. The dairy opened only 18 months ago and may seem basic, yet it has just struck a deal to sell milk to an international processing plant in Nairobi. Farmers get 26 shillings a litre, more than twice what they were paid before the dairy opened its doors.

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Increasing unpredictable rainfall is driving a surge in potato planting in Kenya as growers of maize, the national staple crop, look to diversify toward more drought-tolerant crops.

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