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Achievements
Livestock,Fisheries & Veterinary Services
• Construction of Regional Livestock Market in Mandera is
ongoing.
• Establishment Regional livestock Disease investigation
and diagnostic centre is on-going
• Renovated and equipped the Diagnostic Veterinary
Laboratory in Mandera East
• Purchased 2 animal feeds making machines for Mandera
East and North
• Revived the Dairy Demonstration farm
• Construction of 3 Slaughter houses
• Established slaughter slabs in 4 wards
• Constructed 5 strategic fodder stores
• Constructed of 14 cattle crushes
• Construction of 16-twin water troughs
• Fenced Rhamu livestock market, constructed an
underground water tank and installed piped water
• Constructed 8 fish ponds in the county to increase
fisheries productivity
• Supplied and distributed fish feeds and fingerlings for the
new fish ponds
• Constructed 3 underground water tanks for bee keeping
groups
• Purchased fishing gears and cool boxes for fish farmers
along the river
• Trained 200 fish farmers in Qumbiso, Mandera East and
Shantoley centres
• Formation of riverine management unit to exploit river
Daua fisheries resources
• Established Mandera county hatchery at Bulla Hajji Farm
in Neboi Ward
• Establishment of vaccines cold storage facility
• Purchased and distributed 120 honey harvesting kits
county wide
• Purchased 700 KTBH for Mandera South, West, Lafey, M/
West
• Purchased poultry feeds and feeding equipment for
poultry keeping groups
• Mass vaccination of livestock against CCPP, BQ, PPR
and S&G
• Conducted investigation and research on strange camel
diseases
• Conducted feasibility study for the establishment of
Livestock border post
• Increased fodder production along the Daua river by 50
percent
• Purchased and distributed 6981 kgs of grass seeds
county wide
• Purchased and distributed 52,000 bales of locally grown
hay county wide to cushion farmers against drought.
• Conducted feasibility study for establishment of leather
tannery countywide
• Constructed and equiped two mini honey refineries in
Banisa and Rhamu.