Governor Paul Otuoma Pledges On Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries

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Governor Paul Otuoma Pledges On Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries

The dairy development program focuses on:

  1. Increasing Busia County milk production
  2. Availing quality breeds of dairy animals to farmers
  3. Improving incomes earned from the dairy enterprise through increased production
  4. Promoting commercial fodder production and conservation
  5. Empowering women, youths and persons with disability groups.
  1. Cage Fish Farming in Bunyala
  2. Livestock vaccination drive across the County

The county has a state of the art veterinary laboratory for disease surveillance and control.

  1. Agribusiness Incubation centre

To offer a platform for startup agri business to grow while being trained on business literacy.

The development objective of the incubation centre is to provide conducive space for;

i) incubation of startup agribusiness entreprises aimed at generating additional farm income in high value markets with a potential for scaling up. By this way the project aims to give small holder farmers a chance to participate in high value agricultural markets domestically and internationally,

ii) Farmers trainings,

iii) Development and testing of innovative models for agricultural technology transfer and application.

The expected results oce the centre is up running include;

i) Increased competitiveness of the county's produce and products

ii) Efficient farm-to-markt linkages

iii) Rapid technology adoption and Incentives to invest in agribusiness

iv) Will enable youths start business easily

 

Artificial Insemination and Disease control

Project objective;improving the current low producing breeds through artificial insemination to increase milk production.

Over 600 local animals have been served using improved semen.

 

SOURCE: Busiacounty.go.ke

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