Governor Amos Nyaribo has launched a daily breed improvement programme of heat synchronization and administering of Artificial Insemination (AI) in Nyamira County to improve the quality of dairy breeds thereby boosting milk production in the area.
The governor observed that there is a serious milk shortage in Nyamira yet there are at least two dairy cows in almost all the homesteads in Nyamira, a sure red flag indicating the majority of dairy farmers in the county have inferior dairy breeds which fail to produce milk maximally. "Cows in this area averagely produce three to five litres of milk per day contrary to other regions in this country or parts of the world which produce 20 to 30 litres.
All this is because of our failure to embrace modern superior dairy breeds which are artificially inseminated to introduce stronger dairy breeds which are disease resistant and produce more milk unlike our local breeds which have annually frustrated us with low milk production despite our efforts to ensure they are taken care of well," he observed. "We are committed as a county to ensure improvement of the gene or breeds so that our local dairy breeds can calf superior breeds which produce more milk than their mother cows.
When you get a superior dairy breed which is adequately fed and taken care of well, they will automatically improve the quantity of its milk production and enable farmers to be empowered economically and at the same time be food secure," Governor Nyarobo noted.
