Farmers are turning to high-output napier grass that promises to increase milk production. Photo/SULEIMAN MBATIAH
For about 10,000 farmers, many in the Rift Valley, recent months have brought the discovery that the solution to Kenya’s perennial milk shortages, and to low output, lies not with the cattle, but with growing smart grass, in a technique being promoted by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari).
Dubbed the ‘Tumbukiza Method’ (TM), the technique is seeing farmers growing high-output napier grass on tiny pieces of land.
