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@Willie2015, even as at 2013, the 7,000 litres is so paltry! Kenya annual production is about 5 billion litres, reason why Dangote is setting up factory in Kenya to process fresh milk to powdered and EXPORT to Nigeria!

Willie2015:
Milk collection centre is close to these settlements, they pick up all supply

What is the average daily milk production of a cow and who are those that collect them?

Vickyydera:
Can someone encapsulate for me E-money source of money?

lf EFCC is silent on him, l can't say much.

Willie2015:
Thats the price of purchase from fulani herdsmen

lf they are producing in volumes one could set up a plant to have it pasteurized and packed in 500ml sachet like that of pure water.

Will love to see pictures of fayose's completed projects.

The privileges they enjoy while in office is not enough but want it to continue after office....sick minds!

It will be odd if money was not released for this same bridge over the years!

ThunderingHooves:
With that kind of money he makes, he should buy cow mattresses to avoid dumb heifer syndrome. Comfort is what dairy cows desire.

A lot of their farmers are now utilizing the mattresses in addition to having music being played in their shed as it is said that playing relaxing tunes help the cows to relax to produce more milk!

ThunderingHooves:
Oh my goodness!!!! Is that the price of a litre of fresh milk
I sincerely believe in that space is not an impediment , human beings are.

Our minds have been shaped into believing that anything cow, is the exclusive of the North. When the South go into dairy farming and adopt zero grazing, milk will be transported in tankers as it is done in Kenya. The North choose to stick to their nomadic style which is a total economic waste because as the cows roams they tend to produce less milk.

Let them step aside.

Abeymills:
Dats wat u get when evil men bubuhari n zombies are in power retrogression death poverty herdsmen NDA bokoharam etc where is d bubuhari by d way?

What made them prefer going to study outside Nigeria in the first place?

Reality sets in.

Why not compare it with other African countries!

Lanretoye:
lets see ur date of birth too.

He should be around 1991/1992.

Just hope on his behalf that some armed robbers and kidnappers are not already thinking....

@Willie2015, who sells a litre of milk for N100? In another thread someone was offering it for N500!

While many PDP legions had earlier vehemently denied Ali Modu Sheriff having nothing to do with Boko Haram! Ali Modu Sheriff is the tetanus that is affecting PDP's nervous system, they should better work on its cure rather than blaming others but themselves!

We are being told the herdsmen are not Nigerians, so does the Constitution freely allow foreigners to come in to cause havoc?

Makes sense.

"The prosecutor, Insp. Fagboyinbo Abiodun, had earlier told the court that the convict committed the offence on June 10 at about 5:00 p.m., in Omobolanle area of Osogbo".......Committed offence on the 10th and already sentenced while those who stole billions have their cases running for years, our justice system is warped!

mrkayusfit:
which work this guy dey do sef

If EFCC got nothing on him, he is a free man.

ibetoibb:
Did I hear Senior wife, anyway RIP.

He was married to three.

I bought a loaf of 800gms of bread in Kenya in 2013 for 90 shillings and in 2016, l still pay 90 shillings! Our problem is that most of the raw material is import dependent.

John Chege has three 50 by 100ft plots where he keeps 100 cows, getting over 400 litres from 20.

Dressed in a black shirt and a matching trouser, the middle-aged man was all ears as the farmer in Kiambu County took him through the dos and don’ts when feeding cows.

“Don’t think that if you overfeed cows, they will produce more milk. Instead, they will even produce less,” farmer John Chege, 35, told his guest Zozo Felicien, a Congolese.

“Excess feeding interferes with the animal’s digestion process, and thus the overall production. The animals should be given enough time to chew the cud,” added Chege, whose farm is in Githunguri, in the agricultural rich Kiambu County.

The Congolese, who is the national coordinator for Action Sociale Et D’organisation Paysanne, one of the biggest grassroots farmer organisations in Congo, had travelled to the farm for tips on dairy farming, especially on small pieces of land, and running a dairy cooperative society.

Chege, who has been farming for 15 years having started with a few animals, keeps dozens of cows on three different 50 by 100 plots.

And that is what marvelled Zozo, who got to learn about the farmer’s Riverbanks Farm through a Kenyan friend.

On the first farm, Chege has about 40 heifers aged from three to 18 months. His second farm also measuring 50 by 100ft hosts a similar number of cows, calves and heifers. The third farm hosts about 20 animals and his house.

HYGENE IS SUPREME

Apart from the farm where he has built his residential house, the other farms are divided into two portions with a walkway of roughly 7 feet in between.

Each sleeps in a space of about 5 by 8 feet with a general feeding and watering space on the opposite side. Once they are through with feeding, they simply turn around and get into their sleeping quarters.

On all the farms, there are other structures, some holding goats, sheep and chicken, as well as staff houses and feeds’ stores.

Having such a large number of animals in a small enclosure, one would expect Chege is assailed by foul-smelling animal waste. “Cleanliness is paramount. I have full-time employees who clean the cows and the sheds regularly. The waste is then channelled to the bio-digester for biogas production.”

Chege insisted that a cow only needs to eat the equivalent of two 10-litre basketfuls of feeds, that is about 20kg daily. He feeds the cows mostly on napier grass, which is sliced into pieces using a chaff cutter and mixed with wheat bran.

The cows are fed twice a day; in the morning and in the afternoon. Each feeding session lasts roughly two hours, after which the feeding area is closed to avoid over-eating.

“Anything more than that is over-feeding, which is not only costly but also reduces milk production. What cows require in plenty is water,”
And to ensure he has sufficient water supply, Chege has drilled boreholes on all his three farms.

GOOD FARMING MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

Zozo, who said that small farmers back home do not practice zero-grazing, was surprised that cows which are in an enclosure are capable of producing good amounts of milk.

To maximise on milk production, the cows need to save on energy. If they use lots of energy moving around, then they will not produce a lot of milk. Still, cows that move around tend to pick diseases as opposed to those that are confined,” explained Chege.

Chege’s 20 lactating cows produce around 400 litres of milk a day, with the top one offering about 30 litres daily, making him one of the largest shareholders of the Githunguri Dairy Cooperative, where he is a member.

He milks the cows three times a day and delivers the milk at the society, which buys at Sh40 ($0.40)

“I am currently servicing a loan that I pay Sh350,000 ($3,500) per month. Once I complete repaying it, I will borrow more to expand my business,” he added.

An impressed Zozo said his organisation would extend an invite to Chege, sometime in August, so that he can teach and motivate farmers in Congo.

Felix Opinya, a livestock expert at Egerton University, says that such an intensive kind of farming poses risks when a disease strikes.

“Due to the close confinement, diseases can spread fast and if not properly managed can wipe out the entire stock,” he says, adding the system has no problem as long as a farmer engages in good management practices.

Laughing......

He should kiss goodbye to freedom.

lt takes cares of stomach related issues and it really works for me.

Kachisbarbie:
hehe
You're very funny.

That is Nigeria's definition!

Militants have their pockets in mind while Terrorists have been brainwashed into believing something pleasurable awaits them after death! No one can alledge that Shekau built a university outside Nigeria nor have billions in his account(s) because the deranged mind is more concerned about his 72 vurgins!

Commendable.

ayguru:
She try, how long she will remain in the News' headline is only a matter of time.

Everything in life has got its time and season.

Ignorance is deadly!