Zimbabwean farmer Freedom Sibanda used to sell his goats for US$30 each. Now, through crossbreeding techniques, one goat can fetch up to US$60 at market. Many smallholder farmers across Zimbabwe ...

A farm hand tends some of the cattle on Titus Buatre 's farm. Photo by Felix Warom Okello. From seven cows and four goats at the start, the numbers have grown to the hundreds. One farmer told Felix ...

Scientists in the country have started developing the fastest-growing meat-goat breed to improve the productivity of indigenous breeds, whose body weights are often small and grow slowly. Under the ...

John Obuom, from Lower Nyando in Kisumu County shows one of the gala goats that he is crossbreeding with the small East African indigenous goats for an upgraded breed that is fast maturing, adaptable ...

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