{"id":4232,"date":"2019-07-31T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"how-farmers-lose-billions-in-donkey-meat-export-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/31\/how-farmers-lose-billions-in-donkey-meat-export-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"How Farmers Lose Billions In Donkey Meat Export Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By GERALD ANDAE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report published by\nthe Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (Kalro) and Brooke\nEast Africa reveals that farmers lose Sh11,390 on every working donkey that is\noffered for slaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report indicates\nthat between April 2016 and December this year, farmers are projected to have\nlost Sh28.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDonkey keepers and\nusers whose livelihoods depended on the donkey earned an average of Sh11,390\nper month from providing transportation services, while laborers in the donkey\nabattoirs earned an average of Sh8,460 per month,\u201d says the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAssuming that 25\npercent (75,494) of the donkeys slaughtered were working donkeys, and would\notherwise have been used to generate a mean monthly income of Sh11,390, the\nincome foregone was valued at Sh28.3 billion during the reference period,\u201d it\nadded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya has four licensed\ndonkey abattoirs that have since 2016 been allowed to slaughter and export the\ndonkey products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study revealed that\n301,977 donkeys were slaughtered since commissioning of export donkey abattoirs\nin Kenya with 6.9 percent slaughtered in 2016, 40.3 percent in 2017 and 52.8\npercent in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 98 percent of\nthe donkeys that are slaughtered are destined to China with high demand for the\nanimal skin leading to high cases of theft and smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of them end up in\nan eastern town called Dong\u2019e, China, where most of the world\u2019s ejiao \u2014 a\ntraditional medicine made from gelatin extracted from boiled donkey hides \u2014 is\nmade\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/How-farmers-lose-billions-in-donkey-meat\/3815418-5215960-btxyf1\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GERALD ANDAE A report published by the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (Kalro) and Brooke East Africa reveals that farmers lose Sh11,390 on every working donkey that is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}