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History of pig farming in Kenya
1904: Pig from Seychelles by European settlers 1905: Large White and Berkshire Importation (Samia) 1907: Uplands factory Limuru build 1940’s: Pig Producer Associations and Pig board formed to control prices and facilitate marketing 1950: Upland Bacon Factory formed as a Parastatal 1953: Pig breeding Station opened at Naivasha 1972: Uplands bacon Factory – large scale production 1984/85: Uplands collapsed (1987)and FC expanded Late 80’s: ADC farms stopped pig farming 1990: EATEC engaged in pig farming – Eldoret 2008: Suspension of pig breeding at NAHRS Naivasha 2009: KENPIFA registered Integrated Large Commercial: Farmers Choice -
•Use of Crop residues: Sweet potato vines and Tubers
–Cassava and peelings
–Kales, Cabbages
–Napier grass + garden weeds
–Spoiled mangoes, Tomatoes, Avocadoes + Pawpaw
–Pastures and forage – 20% growing pigs, 50% breeding pigs feed costs + reduce vitamin deficiencies
– Supplement with omena
By products: - Brewers waste
- Kitchen left overs
- Rumen contents and Blood – Slaughter slabs
- Swill from schools and other institutions
Safety and quality of these? Slides
–Free range/ traditional – traders/ brokers and butchers move from village to village looking for pigs
Buy underweight pigs – some local slaughter with or with no Meat Inspection
Others loaded on trucks for slaughter to urban centres and Slaughter houses
Commercial systems – FC field officers inspects and monitor their contract farmers – when finished – transported to slaughter
Others – sell either on estimated life weight or slaughter weight to butchers or pig traders
Some commercial farmers have own slaughter slabs and butcheries
TAFADHALI SHARE HABARI HII KWA RAFIKI ZAKO HAPO CHINI ILI IWAFIKIE NA WENGINE PIA
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
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