Rank: New-farer Joined: 2/14/2015 Posts: 98 Location: Kenya
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Gathige wrote:Rollout wrote:I will do dairy cows. 5 acres can hold up to 20 dairy cows. Each cow at a minimum can produce 10 liters of milk a day that is 200 liters at kshs. 60 per liter. that's kshs 12k a day. That's ksh 360k a months. You can accumulate the entire year of feed from Aug-Dec if you go to RV and collect/buy corn leaves/stems once they take out the actual corn, you can also lease land in RF for ksh-15k a year per hect. @Rollout, Good idea but dairying does not work like that. If you have 20 of them, less than half would be milking at any one time. Some will be dry, meaning off milking, others just about to deliver, and no wonder the ones being milked proper. To milk twenty, you need a her daughter of like 40 or thereabouts. The returns are good but one need to have both a passion when it come tomdairying and a business approach. Hon Magara runs an exemplary dairy in Rongai and make good cash but has invested heavily too. To feed a rapidly growing population, dairy farming is a good investment. I would have considered it were it not for being labour intensive.
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