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About 2 million rural households in Kenya produce milk. With about 1800 liters per cow and year, average annual milk production per cow on smallholder dairy farms is low. As a result, production costs per kilogram of milk are high, and profit margins for many farmers are slim. Low cow productivit...


Wilkes, AndreasDijk, Suzanne vanOdhong', Charles[Finance for on-farm investments in dairy production in Kenya]Finance for on-farm investments in dairy production in Kenya

In peri-urban areas of the world where cattle are present, dairy farming has typically been part of the adjustment in production patterns of smallholders faced with shrinking arable land, higher population density and rising wage rates. In sub-Saharan Africa, where the economic viability of small...


Staal, Steven J.Delgado, Christopher L.Nicholson, C.[Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa]Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa

When severe market shortages of dairy products occurred in Kenya in early 1992, the government decontrolled dairy prices and revoked the monopoly of the Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) on sales of processed milk in urban areas. The general opinion among policy makers in Kenya then was that th...


Staal, Steven J.Shapiro, Barry I.[The effects of price liberalisation on Kenyan peri-urban dairy]The effects of price liberalisation on Kenyan peri-urban dairy

In Ethiopia and Kenya, a unit of credit given to a credit-constrained farmer has twice as much effect on agricultural productivity as a unit of credit given to a farmer with adequate access to financial resources, according to a recent ILRI study. The study also found that giving farmers agricult...


Freeman, H.A.Jabbar, M.A.Ehui, Simeon K.[LPA Brief no. 10. The role of credit in the uptake and productivity of improved dairy technologies in sub-Saharan Africa]LPA Brief no. 10. The role of credit in the uptake and productivity of improved dairy technologies in sub-Saharan Africa

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