Pig Farming

Date: June 22, 2015Author: Farmers Trend0 Comments A ride on the bumpy murram road from Kolenyo market to Akado village in Seme, Kisumu County, leads me to the home of Mr Ronald Omondi. Omondi is a security supervisor at a hotel in Qatar, but back home in Kolenyo, he rears rabbits, pigs and has a hydroponics project to supplement the animal fodder. Omondi credits his pig-rearing ideas and skills to vast research over the internet. “I have not […]

Date: August 5, 2015Author: Farmers Trend0 Comments Pig farming in Uganda has recently emerged as a lucrative enterprise thanks to a growing demand for pork in a country that leads in pork consumption in Sub Saharan Africa with statistics from FAO and ILRI indicating a 3.43kg per capita consumption. The demand for pork in Uganda is driven by the social lifestyle of the locals. Many pork consumers prefer it to other types of meat especially in social gathering