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Kenya: Entrepreneur Using Organic Microbes to Unlock Hidden Nutrients in Dairy Feeds
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Using naturally occurring microbes, a Kenyan entrepreneur has developed a molasses-based supplement that pre-ferments animal feeds to unlock all the necessary nutrients that would… Read more »
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Kenyan Entrepreneur Uses Microbes to Unlock Dairy Feed Nutrients
Using naturally occurring microbes, a Kenyan entrepreneur has developed a molasses-based supplement that pre-ferments animal feeds to unlock all the necessary nutrients that would otherwise find a way out of the animal through cow dung - and dairy farmers have fallen in love with the product, IPS reports.
According to Henry Ambwere, the Nakuru-based entrepreneur who developed the organic supplement, the naturally occurring pro-life bacteria help in predigesting the animal feeds to make it easy for the animal to utilise all the nutrients, thereby increasing the body mass and milk production, but reducing the amount of the dung produced by the animal.
Juma Kiboi, the Dairy Farm Manager for Rawhide Ltd in Nakuru County, says that the use of the microbes has enabled his farm - which holds hundreds of lactating cows - to double the milk production without increasing the amount of feeds.
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