Despite opposition from animal welfare organisations that battery cage poultry farming is cruel, this system is gaining traction among Kenyan farmers who argue they save on space and improve egg ...

Confidence in consumer demand for free-range eggs is prompting communities to switch to free-range poultry farming. Researchers say poultry keeping through the battery cage method violates animal ...

An animal welfare lobby group is strongly opposing the battery cage poultry rearing system, saying it denies the birds their rights to movement and exposes them to high stress levels. Africa Network ...

For many decades residents of western Kenya mainly thrived on fish, sugar cane and cotton farming for income generation. Then came the mismangement of the sugar and cotton subsectors, reducing most ...

Chicken meat is consumed less frequently in Kenya than in Uganda and Tanzania, a new survey shows, pointing to prohibitive costs of production in the country. Although chicken remains the most popular ...

The smell of fresh manure and the cheerful clucking of a thousand hens used to be the music of my childhood. My grandmother, a small-scale farmer in rural Kenya, made a decent living from her flock.

As reported in The Star, the ‘From Chicken to Market’ project will support more than 1,000 poultry farmers in Kibwezi. The fund will be used to help with credit facilities, capital, vaccinated insured ...

ARUSHA - Tanzania and Kenya have successfully resolved a longstanding dispute over the export of poultry and poultry products between the two countries, the East African Community (EAC) said in a ...

Agribusiness is still the most promising venture for Kenya's youthful population, with poultry farming globally remaining the major source of cheap protein to feed the ever-growing population. Amidst ...