The Government and International partners have invested Sh 9.46 billion to support 110,000 rural small-scale farmer households to boost livestock production and increase their incomes in 10 counties across the country.

The six-year project, being implemented by the Kenya Livestock Commercialisation Project (KeLCoP), is supported with funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Heifer International.

While speaking in Kakamega during a validation visit, KeLCoP National Project Coordinator Prof.

Moses Kembe said the project focuses on four value chains: rearing indigenous poultry, beekeeping, sheep farming, and dairy and goat meat production.