East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD)
About Us is a regional industry development program implemented by Heifer International and a consortium of partners including TechnoServe, ILRI, The World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and ABS TCM. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of an agricultural development grant designed to boost the yields and incomes of millions [...]
FARM-Africa
FARM-Africa provides the training and support that poor rural communities need to identify and implement appropriate solutions to many of the key problems they face. Families are directly supported to help work themselves out of poverty through improved ways to manage their crops, livestock, forests and access to water. “FARM-Africa can play an important role by being [...]
Africa Dairy Farm – Successful Management, Insemination & Deworming
HEALTH MANAGEMENT The following diseases are quite prone in my areas; East Cost Fever – I usually use Bupervex, Diminazene, and Adamycin Milk Fever- I inject Calciject and give the cow a higher ratio of minerals especially calcium. Mastitis, which is rare – I use Terrexine tubes and if severe I inject Gentamycin. Pneumonia – [...]
Africa Dairy Farm: Successful Feeding
East Africa Dairy Development says that Kenyan dairy farm yields are substantially lower than the international standards. This is because of Poor and inadequate feeding. Most cows produce well bellow their potential because their nutrient intake is insufficient in both quantity and kind. Most smallholders feed their cows by letting them openly graze, mostly on common land, by the side of [...]