Tags: dairying

ILRI News on dairying

02 Aug 2019

Don’t believe the scare stories, Kenyan milk is a big success

We sent the following note to Parents Africa magazine , which published an unfortunately alarmist article recently based on research conducted by ILRI scientists. Village-based dairy advisor Lillian Ochieng cleaning her cow’s udder in preparation for milking in Siaya County (Photo credit: FIPS/...

Sustainable livestock systems

01 Aug 2019

Judy Kimani

#ThrowbackThursday Video—Sweetpotato recipe for silage success

East Africans are serving up dual-purpose sweetpotatoes on their family tables and in their animal troughs Check out these English and Swahili instructional films on how to prepare and store silage made of sweetpotato vines for a cheap, nutritious and long-lasting feed for your dairy cows. Here’s...

ILRI clippings

31 Jul 2019

Susan MacMillan

Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Kenya’s livestock sector is primed to grow exponentially over the next three decades and anchor the country’s food sufficiency amid a rapid rise in the human population, a new survey...

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Publications on dairying

Journal Article

Published2019

Aflatoxin exposure from milk in rural Kenya and the contribution to the risk of liver cancer

Journal Article

Published2019

Reproductive performance indicators of dairy cattle in selected small-scale dairy farms in semi-arid Eastern Kenya

Journal Article

Published2019

Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management

Journal Article

Published2019

Transfer of total phenols from a grapeseed-supplemented diet to dairy sheep and goat milk, and effects on performance and milk quality

Journal Article

Published2019

Occurrence of aflatoxin M1 in raw milk traded in peri-urban Nairobi, and the effect of boiling and fermentation

Journal Article

Published2019

Risk factors for Brucella seroprevalence in peri-urban dairy farms in five Indian cities

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ILRI Projects on dairying

Sep 2017Dec 2019

Facilitating Value Addition and Processing in the Context of the Cassava, Maize, Banana, Vegetable and Livestock Value Chains(PRODEMA) Activities to support the Milk Value Chain

This phase of the Project (PRODEMA II) is concerned with value addition, developing markets, demonstration and upscaling of new technologies for dairy, cassava, banana, fruits and vegetables and improving human nutrition along these value chains.

Jan 2019Dec 2022

Rwanda Dairy Development Project is implemented by Government of Rwanda under a loan from IFAD. This technical assistance project aims to support improved feeding of dairy cattle across project sites

Aims to provide livestock technical support including use of ration balancing approaches, feed-supply demand work and the use of other prioritization tools including SoFT to the Rwanda dairy development project

Jan 2019Dec 2020

Feed the Future - Accelerated Value Chain Development Program phase II

The Feed the Future Kenya Accelerated Value Chain Development program seeks to widely apply technologies and innovations for selected value chains in order to competitively and sustainably increase productivity, contributing to inclusive agricultural growth, nutrition and food security in the...

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