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School feeding programmes play a critical role in encouraging the poorest families to send their children  sons, and especially their daughters  to school. Once children are in the classroom, school meals ensure they are well nourished and ready to learn.  The importance of school feeding is well established and widely recognized. Providing nutritious food at school is good for educational achievement, for nutrition and health, for inclusion of girls and of the most vulnerable children and, if done right, for local economies.

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Consistent access to high-quality feed including forage is crucial for the competitiveness of the dairy sector in East Africa. Use of quality forages in balanced rations can reduce the feed cost for the famer, increase margin above feed cost and reduce enteric methane emission intensity per Liter of milk. Milk processors and dairy cooperatives should, advice farmers to adopt improved forage production (Forage Finder), to conserve forage for the dry season and to feed balanced rations to their dairy cows. This is in their interest because it will reduce seasonal milk supply fluctuations, thereby improving operational profits.

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<h3>1. Abothuguchi Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>location: Meru</p>
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<h3>2. Mount Kenya Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>location: Meru </p>
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<h3>3. Mount Kenya East Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>location: Meru </p>
<p></p>

<h3>4. Nandi Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>location: Kapsabeth (Nandi county)</p>
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<h3>5. Kitinda Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>location: Bungoma town</p>
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<h3>6. Kaptama Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>chairperson: Tom Kipnesty Ndiwa</p>
<p>location: Mount Elgon</p>
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<h3>7. Githunguri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society</h3>
<p>location: Kiambu</p>
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<h3>KALRO Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation</h3>
<p>contact person: Simon Omondi</p>
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Meet the FORQLAB coops and companies

AVOCADO:

1. Abothuguchi Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society

2. Mount Kenya Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society

3. Mount Kenya East Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society

4. Nandi Avocado Farmers Cooperative Society

DAIRY:

5. Kitinda Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society

6. Kaptama Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society

7. Githunguri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society

Other stakeholders

KALRO Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation

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