The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) has partnered with the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (NAVCDP) to disseminate poultry farming technologies to farmers in Vihiga County.
Vihiga Deputy Governor (DG) Wilberforce Kitiezo, has said the initiative targets 104 trainees comprising lead farmers, community-based facilitators and agripreneurs in other value chains.
The DG called for the commercialisation of poultry farming, given its viability, as it just requires little space for setting up compared to other enterprises.
“In the face of the reducing land sizes occasioned by the population increase, it is imperative that the farmers opt for enterprises that require relatively smaller space to operate and poultry is one such endeavour,” he observed.
He added that the trainees would be required to cascade the knowledge acquired to other farmers so that as many residents as possible are brought on board to embrace the new technologies.
The training covers, among other things, the on-farm formulation of feeds, disease and parasite control, breeding and selection, as well as establishing linkages to the markets.
By Sammy Mwibanda
