“Selling manure helps me buy food and pay hospital bills for my family.”Demand for manure collected from Kenya's rangelands for use as fertiliser is on the rise. Wanjiru has been farming her one-eighth of an acre using both manure collected from Maasai land and composted manure from her own cow penned on a corner of her land. “When manure from Maasai land is applied on the tea farms, the production is higher than expected,” said Njuguna. David Ngure, a trader in central Kenya, has been selling Maasai manure to farmers for the last two years. For instance, they should be encouraged to form co-operatives to make it easier to manage income from selling manure, and save money to buy food when drought hits, he said.

Source: The Star June 13, 2017 09:56 UTC