To deal with this, they have reached out to local financial institutions to subsidise and give loans and credit services to farmers.
Apart from helping farmers access finance, the organisation also links those who do not have high quality donor cattle with breeders that do. They, however, encourage farmers to team up with neighbors or get into co-operatives in order to minimise costs.
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Dr Cherogony explains that apart form transferring embryos, this venture also offers farmers the opportunity get involved in the production and sale of embryos themselves, where they can avail them to other farmers for profit.
EASETA also plans to set up a station for semen production in order to improve the quality of the local genetic pool.
It has also worked with the University of Nairobi, KARI, ILRI and ADC to promote the research in a remarkable illustration of how public-private partnerships can add value to an industry.