MAAJABU YA MTANDAONI,BOFYA HAPO CHINI HUTAAMINI MACHO YAKO
Western Kenya and Nyanza, women play a major role in the management of pigs.
Men are rarely at home but are the ones who sell the family pig and dictate on how the family will use the money.
Said that women care for the pigs and men sell the pigs This may reflect the cultural expectation that men are the decision makers in most rural families.
In the small scale commercial system in central Kenya, the women play a major role. They feed the pigs and are responsible for removal and utilization of the farmyard manure. Men sell the pigs and control how the money is used.
The pig traders will approach the men and not the women who have no say in the selling of the pig.
However, the men will in most cases buy a replacement pregnant gilt, weaner or a young boar for the women to raise.
Opportunities:
Increased pork consumption
Increased prices of other meats – beef scarce
New outlets/ butcheries – Pork Centres
Fragmentation of land – economical livestock
Home made rations and use of forage supplements
Expanding export markets – EAC + COMESA
Short production cycle
Formation of pig farmers groups
Technical support from international bodies
Low prices for live animals – Farmers not well organized – Price takers. No value addition
High feed cost which does not guarantee quality – non pig feed – delayed maturity
Infertility – Underfeeding + inbreeding
Unavailability and high prices of breeding stock
Poor Husbandry practices- Dominated by small scale producers with minimal investment in housing, feeding and other management practices.
Production not structured – Not predict numbers to avail to market at given time
Disease outbreaks such as ASF, no vaccinations
Cultural and religious factors in some parts of country - Attitudes and biases to pigs
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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