NAIROBI Nike Air Max 93 Pas Cher , July 13 (Xinhua) -- James Mwenda picks a bunch ofnapier grass from a pile harvested from his three acres in MeruCounty, eastern Kenya, and chops into small pieces using a chaffcutter.

He repeats the process several times before ending up with ahuge pile of napier grass cut into 2cm pieces.

The smallholder dairy farmer who keeps eight Friesian cowsthereafter spreads out the chopped napier grass on a plastic sheetspread in a half-metre deep rectangular pit dug out in theground.

Mwenda is in the process of making silage, and has perfected theart that farmers visit him for theoretical and practicallessons.

"If you are a dairy farmer and you want to have feed supplythroughout the year Nike Air Max 180 Pas Cher , then silage is the way to go," he saidrecently in Meru, adding that one spreads the chopped fodder on thesheet as they stump on it to remove air and thereafter add dilutedmolasses to aid in fermentation.

Later, the mixture is covered and would be ready for use afterabout a month and can stay in the pit for up to a year.

The farmer normally makes silage that lasts him up to six monthscushioning his animals from a dry season.

Silage is a feed that hundreds of smallholder dairy farmers inthe East African nation are currently turning to beat erraticweather and make their businesses profitable.

The farmers are learning the silage-making process fromcolleagues or agricultural institutions as the country experiencesa rather unpredictable weather that has affected both crop andlivestock farming.

This year for instance Nike Air VaporMax Pas Cher , the Meteorological Department predictedthat the long rains season would start in March and end in May.

However, in some parts of the country, the rains did not startuntil late April and stopped even before the end of May. The resultis that crops in particular maize has withered in several areasacross the East African nation.

For dairy farmers, a prolonged dry period led to decline offodder Nike Air Max 96 Pas Cher , pushing farmers to hay that was going for up to 4 U.S.dollars per bale. A wheelbarrow of napier grass, on the other hand,was being sold at 2.4 dollars, making dairy farming an expensiveaffair.

Silage is Nike Air Max 360 Pas Cher , therefore, the best option especially for smallholderdairy farmers seeking to overcome effects of climate change.

"The trick is that you grow fodder like napier grass or maizeduring the rainy season, and harvest and preserve to use during thedry weather. If you perfect the practice, your animals will neverlack feeds thus guaranteeing you high milk production Nike Air Max 97 Pas Cher ," explainedMwenda, who milks 120 litres and sells at 0.3 dollars a litre to acooperative society in the region.

Esther Koech, a farmer in Uasin Gishu County in the Rift Valleynoted that currently she has two bunkers where she preserves hersilage.

"I have ten dairy cows, of which I milk eight. I learned it thehard way in 2015 when it failed to rain as expected and animalfeeds were hard to come by. My milk production dropped from about20 litres per cow to ten because I had no fodder. I had to sell myfour animals to reduce the burden of feeding them Nike Air Max TN Pas Cher ," she said.

She learnt how to make silage from a farmers' group in theregion and since then, she has never turned back.

"Right now I have silage that my cows would feed until December.This gives me peace of mind since I am not worried of what theywould eat. My highest milker offers 28 litres and my lowest 15 andthis has been constant for some time because of silage which Isupplement with dairy meal," she said, noting she feeds her animalstwice Nike Air Max 98 Pas Cher , early morning and late evening.

Simon Muriuki, a livestock extension officer in Kiambu on theoutskirts of Nairobi noted that without making silage, it is nowdifficult for any farmer to run a profitable venture.

"Silage making is both an art and a science which farmers mustunderstand so that they do not affect their animals as improperpreparation can lead to diseases. The fodder should be harvestedand dried in the sun for about a day before being used to makesilage," he said Nike Air Max 2017 Pas Cher , adding the feed is nutritious and digestibleensuring high milk production during the dry season.

The rising demand for silage has led to business opportunitiesfor some farmers, who make it in bulk and selling to those who donot have spaces to make it or do not know how to do it. Enditem

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