Description

Livestock Production

Turkana County's economy is largely driven by livestock keeping, majorly; cattle, goats, sheep, donkeys and camels. The Turkana people attach great pride to being pastoralists. The County leadership is therefore k een to scale up the sector by way of creating an enabling environment for enhanced production, provision of improved breeds, animal health infrastructure and marketing to promote the livestock value chain.

Opportunities

• Value addition to livestock products
• Small and medium sized leather tanneries
• Feeding ranches
• Exportation of live livestock
• Meat processing and packaging plants
• Export zones and quality control centers
• Fodder production markets
• Bio-gas projects and plants
• Provision of livestock insurance
• Savings and credit societies to support the pastoral economy
• Fast track the setting up of the tannery at Napal and encourage more tanneries, hides, skins and leather related ventures.
• Animal feeds production
• Milk storage and processing plants, especially for goat and camel milk
• Milk products: yoghurt, cheese, powdered milk and ghee
• Investment in ISO certified abattoirs
• Disease free zone