Headlines of gospel music star of Tanzania Madam Flora approaching marriage after separating from her husband Emmanuel who was Mbasha have been taking turns lately.

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In late summer, the sheep are prepared for mating. Feed intake is increased just before ovulation - this is called flushing. The sheep need to be in good physical and health condition. Mating, or tupping, by rams or artificial insemination occurs during the autumn. The busiest time of the year for a sheep farmer is during lambing, from January to May. A farmer will plan for lambing to take place when the weather conditions improve and the grass begins to grow. The lambs are weaned normally between 12 and 16 weeks of age. Farmers will select some females for breeding based on their physical condition and prepare the rest for sale for slaughter. Sheep enjoy a diet of grass. This diet can be supplemented with hay, silage and root crops, such as turnips, when grass is not readily available. Shearing takes place when the weather is warm and dry. This does not hurt the sheep. It is effectively a hair cut. Lambs do not need shearing. Sheep will be dipped in chemicals which improve the health of the animal by preventing diseases. Sheep farming Health and welfare of the animals Farmers spend a lot of time with the livestock monitoring their health and welfare and producing feed, such as silage. Farmers will also maintain fences, farming equipment and other areas of the farm. Veterinarians and animal nutritionists will often work with farmers to provide expert advice on improving and maintaining animal health. Each animal will also have a passport which records where the animal was born. This passport travels with it and aids traceability within the industry.

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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency. The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy. An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand [1.6MB]SIJAAMINI WEMA SEPETU ANACHOKIFAYA HAPO KWENYE HII VIDEO BOFYA UONE