Dairy Farming Success Kenya

August 31 was just another ordinary day for Sidik Sumra, a dairy farmer, who was attending the Mombasa International Show of September 2016. Sumra had entered four of his cows into different categories.
Boti, a six-year-old cross-breed of a pure Friesian cow and a pure Brown Swiss bull, was one of them. The farmer had entered the 450kg animal in the cross-breed category for large and small scale farmers and had crossed his fingers. Boti, his favourite...

While most of us think of Agribusiness as an art, it is a science as well. It's a matter of practical experience, judgment, foresight and to some extent, luck. To be successful in agribusiness, you must master the basics of business success.
Fortunately, all business skills are learnable and for agribusiness, it is even easier. You can learn anything you need to learn, to achieve any goal you can set for yourself. There are no limits--except the limits you place on your own imagination....

I first visited Ole Sasai in August 2013 and wrote his story of the great things he was doing on an otherwise barren land. At the time, I thought he had done the best anyone could ever do given a land in a semi arid area like this. When he said that...

Apart from wheat and maize farming, Uasin Gishu county is also known for its dairy cows — not exotic dairy goats that Mr Julius Kitur first introduced here three years ago.
After working as a government officer attached to the Prisons Department for a number of years, Kitur, 46, was in need of a new challenge. In 2013, he quit his job after finding a new calling: rearing dairy goats....