Makueni launches big drive
By Daniel Kituku
In Makueni
Department of Agriculture, irrigation, Livestock , fisheries and Cooperative development Makueni is rolling out a mass livestock vaccination.
The Countywide program is targeting over 200, 000 Livestock against Foot and Mouth disease as well as lumpy skin disease for dairy animals .
County Executive Member for Agriculture and Livestock Joyce Mutua told the media the program is being implemented in partnership with Dairy Farmers Cooperative limited and is geared towards increasing animal production by reducing disease outbreaks.
" The Cooperative is aggregating the animals at a central place where extension officers are vaccinating them " she said.
She added that Farmers not in cooperatives and those wishing their animals to be vaccinated at their own crushes should inform the county extension officers who in turn shall visit their farms and administer the vaccines.
Farmers are accessing the vaccine services at a subsidized price of Kes 50.00 per animal .
The program is also covering sheep and goat against contagious pneumonia and goat plague .
