Kuresoi North Sub-County has experienced a rapid expansion in milk production and there exist both formal informal market outlets. With these abundant opportunities, much of the produced quantities are expected to enter farmers’ livelihoods be improved. However, it is not clear whether smallholder producers exploiting existing emerging opportunities through choice The objective this study...

Ecosystems can undergo sudden shifts to undesirable states, but recent studies with simple single-species ecosystems have demonstrated that advance warning can be provided by the slowing down of population dynamics near a tipping point. However, it is unclear how this 'critical slowing down' will manifest in ecosystems with strong interactions between their components. Here we probe the dynamic...

Abstract Organic, grassfed (OGF) dairy, which requires higher pasture and forage dry matter intake compared with standard organic dairy practices, is unique both in its management needs production challenges. The OGF sector rapidly growing, the expansion of this industry outpacing other sectors. There a lack research outlining producer-identified or social factors that affect systems. objective...

Because of an increasing demand for animal-source foods, an increasing desire to reduce poverty and an increasing need to reduce the environmental impact of livestock production, tropical farming systems with livestock must increase their productivity. An important share of the global human and livestock populations are found within smallholder mixed-crop-livestock systems, which should, theref...

The analysis of regional raw materials for producing craft cheese "Anchan" and studies milk its physical chemical properties technological indicators. Milk samples were pasteurized in the laboratory at a temperature 80 °C 10 seconds. Anchan was added to colour. Next, before coagulation heated pasteurization boiler by heating with saturated steam 36 – 38 °C. enzyme 4 mL per 100 kg black cornflow...

The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. It can generate an image on how small family farmers in both emerging and developing countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face, and the choices they make so that policies can be informed by evidence to ...

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The data sources were both primary and secondary data. To enable an analysis of collected through questionnaire, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software (version 20) was used. mean family size the respondents 6.04. SDs cattle holding per household (8.38±4.91). total (67.9%) having not have owned grazing land their dairy cows. Tryponomiasis disease (Gendi) ranked first, Pasteurel...