Kenya plans to extract more profit from livestock
Kenya’s president, William Ruto, has announced a County Livestock Investment Company to help 350,000 pastoralists in the north of the country gain financial support and extract more value from their herds.
This could provide access to markets, financing and insurance services as part of a wider programme to make the region a livestock trading hub, reported local press.
He said: "We must move beyond live animal exports to higher-value products such as meat, leather and dairy products. For a long time, many looked at livestock and saw subsistence. We see livestock as enterprise, exports, jobs and wealth."
The country will also establish a national food and fodder reserve, an animal identification and traceability system, and expand infrastructure to boost access to export markets.
