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11/09/2020

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11/09/2020

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What I am about to reveal is shocking

It is the reason why many people have attempted to succeed but have failed instead

A segment is coming up in this page which will discuss some of the most common yet hidden reasons for entrepreneurial failure.

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Information provided here will be well researched and given adequate scientific backing.

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01/06/2020

To more years of a successful farming Nation

31/05/2020

30/05/2020

When the pandemic finally ends, we are going to fall back to Agriculture. We have the resources, we have the time. We only need some help from experts in terms the best specific enterprises to venture into. We are here to help you plan and start your poultry enterprise, your vegetable farming, your dairy farming and any other form of farming you may want to start or improve. Contact us today and we can walk the journey with you.

26/05/2020

Key messages from FAO

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis which is already affecting the food and agriculture sector. Prompt measures to ensure that food supply chains are kept alive, domestically and internationally, to mitigate the risk of large shocks that would have a considerable impact on everybody, especially on the poor and the most vulnerable.

Although disruptions in the food supply chain are minimal so far, challenges have been already experienced in terms of logistics. Food needs to move across borders with no restrictions and in compliance with existing food safety standards.

To mitigate the pandemic’s impacts on food and agriculture, FAO urges countries to meet the immediate food needs of their vulnerable populations, boost their social protection programmes, keep global food trade going, keep the domestic supply chain gears moving, and support smallholder farmers’ ability to increase food production.

Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as their own domestic needs may be rising as a result of the pandemic, it is critical that donor countries ensure continued delivery of humanitarian assistance where food insecurity is already high. The disease does not recognize borders. If left unchecked in one place, the entire human community remains at risk.

While there is ongoing research into a potential animal origin of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the spread and development of the current human pandemic is due to human-to-human transmission.

There is no current evidence of animals playing a role in the spread of COVID-19. As a general practice, when caring for any kind of animals, always wash your hands before and after interacting with them.

Meat from healthy livestock that is cooked thoroughly remains safe to eat. People should not handle, slaughter, dress, sell, prepare or consume meat that originates from wild animals or livestock that are sick or that have died from unknown causes. Raw wild meat or uncooked dishes containing the blood of wild animals should not be consumed, as such practices place people at high risk of contracting many types of infections.

Raw wild meat or uncooked dishes based on the blood of wild animals should not be consumed. These practices place people at high risk of contracting any number of infections.
Any unusual morbidity or mortality of animals should be reported to animal health authorities.

(http://www.fao.org/2019-ncov/en/)

26/05/2020

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24/05/2020

The Untapped Potential of Poultry Farming in Kenya

Kenya is booming. The country experiences an annual economic growth of 5 percent. Supermarkets and restaurants are working hard to expand and keep up with the demand of the growing middle class.
Meat consumption is expected to double by 2030. The consumption of poultry will even triple as a combined effect of increasing consumption and population growth.
Poultry farming has great potential. For African standards, the poultry sector is well developed, with a complete and professional production chain.
As in most East-African countries, Kenya has two different poultry markets. The market of the traditional, home kept chicken which roams around. Besides that, there are the fast-growing hybrid broiler chickens.
The amount of hybrid chickens estimates only 16.5 percent of the total amount. The rest of the chicken population exists of traditional, indigenous chickens, which are more popular among consumers, but are kept in rural areas and rarely reach supermarkets.
The chicken is by far the most eaten bird; 98% of all poultry is chicken. However, the demand for other kinds of meat is increasing. Turkey rearing can be very profitable as well. For small scale farmers as well as big turkey farms.
For turkeys, the same preference goes up as it does with chicken: the indigenous ‘kienjeji’ bird is much more popular among Kenyan consumers, as well as consumers in the countryside as in the fast-growing cities.
Most turkey meat in restaurants and all turkey meat in supermarkets however are from broiler turkeys, in Kenya delivered by only one producer who is able to keep the birds on large scale and under high management. This company fulfills all requirements to deliver to retail outlets and restaurants on professional base.
The market for turkey meat is large and expanding, with enough potential for more competitors. Not only for the hybrid turkey, but also for the ‘kienjeji’ turkey.
Farming this traditional turkey can be a good prospective for small scale farmers. What they need is knowledge about good agricultural practices, knowledge about financing and knowledge about the market.