Meet Mary Wambui, she is a mother of two and lives in Lari, Kiambu county.
She owns 103 cows, with 53 of them lactating. In a day, the cows produce between 1,100 and 1,500 litres of milk, with a current herd rate of 22 litres.
This journey started in 2006. We were on our way to the rural home my Last born who was then a toddler would always stop us so that she can tease sheep that were grazing along the road, because she could see them for the first time. This awkward moment to some extents made us to buy three bulls and later five heifers, after a realised my passion for animal rearing
Mary has not looked back since then. She is not an ordinary farmer. She is one of the leading farmers practising zero grazing.
“My most prolific cow produces 45 litres daily. With every litre fetching Sh35, I earn over Sh1.2 million in gross incomes from milk sale in a month and 300,000 net, ” she says.
She supplements the income by the sale of kienyeji chicken, sheep, goats and ducks that she also rears “This is the last thing I would have imagined I would ventured into in 2006.”