Storing cattle feed can improve milk and meat yields: why African farmers aren't doing it

A woman feeding Zebu cows in a village in Kenya. Brittak / Getty Images

Africa’s cattle feed production is a boom-and-bust cycle. Most of the continent’s grazing lands are lush and green in the rainy season, only to wither into dry scrublands in the dry season.

For instance, while Burkina Faso produces an excess of six million tons of forage a year, its Sahel livestock producing regions have a deficit of two million tons annually.