This study was found necessary due to the changing nature of the veterinary services in Kenya whereby, hitherto, the delivery of veterinary services had been solely dependent on the government until some components were ...

Sweet potato is an important food and cash crop grown by small holder farmers but its productivity is limited by sweet potato virus disease (SPVD). Farmers' lack of disease free vines and inadequate knowledge on ...

Schistosomosis is caused by trematodes of the genus Schistosoma which are widespread in Africa and affect both man and livestock. Schistosoma bovis is usually a livestock parasite but may occasionally parasitise humans. ...

Two parallel field experiments were carried out at the Faculty of Agriculture, Field Station farm, University of Nairobi during the short rains of 1997 and repeated during the long rains of 1998, to determine the effects ...

This study investigated the bacteriological quality (total viable counts and coliform counts) and assessed the risk of milk-borne zoonotic E.coli OJ57:H7 and brucellosis infections in humans that may result from consumption ...

Cross-sectional studies were carried out to assess livestock production systems and production of rice based feed resources in the Mwea Irrigation Scheme (MIS), Kirinyaga district. The scheme is located about 100 kms ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) ranks as the fourth most important staple food cultivated and consumed mainly in the tropics and other developing countries. The crop yields well in areas with uncertain rainfall patterns ...

Huge amount of work has been done on HIV/AIDS including on MTCT, but there still remains a dearth of information in areas related to appropriate feeding for infants of mothers infected with HIV. Some suggested infant ...

In order to study the effect of inclusion of protein rich forages (PRF) and molasses on chemical composition, metabolisable energy (ME) content, voluntary' intake, in vivo and in vitro digestibility of Napier grass silage, ...