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Tasmin Yaseen

Tasmin Yaseen, a poultry farmer in Eldoret town. She now free-ranges her birds to cut high cost of feeds.

| Stanley Kimuge | Nation Media Group

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Farmers on the brink as cost of livestock feeds hits sky-high

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By  Seeds of Gold Team

What you need to know:

  • Rising cost of animal feeds pushes cost of production three-fold for farmers.
  • Some farmers have given up, others have scaled down their operations. 

Jesse Ngugi, a medical doctor, quit the profession in 2016 after practising for about a year to venture into pig farming.

Over the years, the farmer who invested Sh2 million into the business – the bulk which came from his father – has been having it rosy.

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