The County Government of Lamu in partnership with World Bank-funded Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Program (KCSAP), have today handed out 21 freezers and over 500 bucks and heifers to 38 interest groups in Bahari and Witu wards in a move meant to boost dairy and fish farming across the county.

Speaking during the event, Lamu County C.E.C.M Agriculture Hon. James Gichu said the smallholder livestock beneficiary groups, received the heifers, bucks and freezers following a training to equip them with skills on successful dairy and fish farming organized by the county government in partnership with KCSAP.

The C.E.C.M further assured farmers that Lamu County Government under Governor Issa Timamy H.S.C, will continue to encourage collaboration with like minded development partners that will help to push Lamu’s dairy farming development agenda.

“The County government of Lamu under the stewardship of H.E Issa Timamy will remain steadfast towards enhancing food security and rural poverty eradication through improved disposable income to smallholder agro-pastoral households” said Hon. Gichu.

Addressing the farmer group members during the distribution exercise KCSAP County Program coordinator, Steven Mbuvi, urged the groups to preserve the livestock for posterity and not seek short-term benefits.

Lamu County is among the 24 Counties earmarked to benefit from the KCSAP project that had stalled over a year ago, which is a Government of Kenya project jointly supported by the World Bank which aims to increase agricultural productivity and enhance resilience to climate change risks in select targeted smallholder farming and pastoral communities in Kenya

Today’s event was held at Bahari, and Witu wards respectively. Next week the countywide exercise will be rolled out in Faza where over 3,000 small holder dairy and poultry farmers will be targeted to benefit from the program.

In attendance were officials from Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Program (KCSAP), State Department of Agriculture and Lamu County Government officials .

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For more information contact:

Lamu County Government Communications Office at info@lamu.go.ke