Browsing: Kenya Dairy Industry

• Microbe animal feed supplement doubles milk production in 24hrs
• Bacterial solution solves aflatoxin problem in animal feed
• Tanzania dairy industry to benefit from Kenyan feed supplement

Kenyan dairy farming scientists have developed a molasses-based animal feed supplement that is capable of doubling milk production in just 24 hours.

Using naturally occurring microbes, scientists have figured a way to ‘pre-ferment’ or ‘pre-digest’ animal feed which in turn allows for the cow’s body to easily and quickly absorb nutrients and in turn produce more milk much faster.

Cows, like most other ruminant herbivores, do not have the time to properly chew their feed in the field, this could be a natural self-preservation adaptation i.e. quickly collect the feed when in a hazardous environment filled with predators and only process it later in the safety of their resting places.

Grass is stored in one of the four chambers (four stomachs) before being regurgitated …

When the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020 winners were officially announced, one pair of Kenyan names stood out. Emmastella Gakuo and Percy Lemtukei, co-founders of Savanna Circuit Tech came out victorious bagging total funding of US$100,000.

The initiators of this problem solver challenge aim to have a pool of entrepreneurs and innovators who are keen on developing a solution that changes the manner in which global issues can be addressed for the common person.

The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an online competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage startups that have developed a solution that drives economic development or solves a social or environmental problem.

Emmastella and Percy founded Savanna Circuit Tech in 2017, after meeting at the University of Nairobi. Observing a gap in which the dairy industry in Kenya was operating and the lack of a system to prolong the life of dairy products in …