Goats on display during Kimalel Goat Auction on December 21, 2017. [Photo|nation.co.ke]
Plans are underway to establish a weekly livestock auction targeting pastoralists in three neighbouring counties.
Garissa, Lamu and Tana River counties have formed a joint committee to ensure the auction is opened by early next year.
"The frontier counties have suffered fragility, instability, poverty, and insecurity, although we have immense potential for development," said Adu Godana, who is leading the organising committee.
"We want to pool our resources and ensure that we reap from these resources among them livestock," he told The Standard.
The livestock industry in the three counties is estimated to be worth more than Sh10 billion, much of it untapped.
Godana, who is also Lamu County executive in charge of Fisheries, Livestock and Cooperative Development, also said a team from the three counties has been formed to spearhead a joint livestock vaccine exercise.
"We have put in place elaborate measures to ensure that we have a disease-free zone where grazing areas and livestock corridors are well defined," he further told the local daily.
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