Poultry feedmixed feed demandtranslog cost functiongenderThis paper uses a translog cost function approach to study the farm-level demand for poultry feed in Kenya. The study estimates the demand elasticities of the three common types of poultry feed; mixed feed, grain, and leafy vegetables. The...
Benefits Gender Kenya 1. Introduction 1.1. Insects as feed Economic development, especially in developing countries, is resulting in an unprecedented demand for animal source proteins (Godfray et al., 2010), but the production of these proteins is hampered by the prohibitive cost of feed, which...
In Kenya, BSF production and its use as a feed component is an emerging business, but farmer awareness of the potential use of BSF in animal feed has received limited attention. This study examined the factors influencing farmer awareness of insect farming and its usefulness as ingredient in ...
Although several reviews of existing data and of the literature on worldwide mycotoxin contamination of food and feed are available, the impact of the different raw materials used on feed formulation has not been widely studied. Keywords: mycotoxin; feed; pig; poultry; exposure; diet; feed ...
Smart Chicken Farming; Case Study in North Rift Kenya. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Conference on AgriFood Electronics (CAFE), Torino, Italy, 30 October 2023; pp. 80–84. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Susanty, A.; Sutrimo, W.H.W.M.; Saptadi, S. Measuring the Sustainability ...