Since the late 1990s there has been a big increase in the numbers of smallholder dairy farmers taking up fodder shrubs as a way to feed their dairy cows and goats better, especially during the dry season. Demand is expanding rapidly: already, we estimate that nearly 50,000 Kenyan farmers have planted fodder shrubs, and there is the potential for the numbers to rise much higher than this.
Publication year
2006
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
extension activities, fodder, markets, seed, seed dispersal
Geographic
Kenya
