So shocked was the management of
leading pork sellers, Farmers Choice, of
Jeniffer Kimani's interest to plunge
into pig farming that they sent a high
powered expert team to egg her on.
At 32, and a mother, Jeniffer was the
youngest woman they had met who
wanted to rear pigs.
She had tried many feminine jobs but
none seemed to settle in her mind as
the best choice to earn a living.
A trained nurse, she had gotten tired
of the job after working for several
years. Not even her alternative of
becoming a beautician satisfied her.
Two years ago, she switched to pig
farming.
"I just decided to get something more
challenging and exciting. I started with
three pigs and at one time had about
200," she says.
At her home in Wambugui Farm, Nyeri
County, Jeniffer, has 95 pigs and the
stable can only increase in the coming
year.
"Pig farming is labour intensive and
requires time discipline. One must
know when to feed them. Otherwise
there will be no peace in that farm,"
she says.
She discourages the tradition of
feeding pigs with waste foods, which
she never does. "Such food gives the
pigs tape worms. It reduces the
quality of their meat," she says.
Jennifer, one of the key suppliers at
Farmers Choice, sells about twenty pigs
every month. "We sell each for Sh
18,000- Sh 20,000. It is good money
because it comes once," she says.
Pigs, she encourages young farmers,
grows very fast. "In three months,
three weeks and three days, a pig will
give birth. Within a year you can have
very many," she says.
She says her husband has come in
handy in helping her put up the
infrastructure needed for the pigs. In
Jennifer Kimani, young people have a
young woman who has reaped the
benefits of pig farming….Come on…
original arricle appeared on mkulimayoung.com
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