TechnoServe is increasing incomes and opportunities for poor, rural households in Kenya by lending its business support services to dairy enterprises.
Kenya's dairy industry is a significant part of the nation's economy and provides income to an estimated 625,000 rural households representing 10% of Kenya’s population. Milk producers in Kenya are typically one-person home enterprises, usually run by women. Per-capita incomes in rural areas average less than $1 per day and, working with little technical knowledge or support, Kenya's small-scale dairy farmers get low yields from their herds.
TechnoServe trains dairy groups to improve milk production, specifically in the areas of feed conservation and breeding, and provides business skills.
This intervention will economically empower more than 9,000 farmers through enterprise development and capacity building activities. TechnoServe's acitivities will result in $2.5 million in revenue for smallholder dairy farmers in 2006.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
