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Namibia’s Brahman Breed Weighs 1,200Kgs Despite Desert Conditions


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Tucked neatly in the Namib desert, is the Okoruzengo ranch where the Brahman cattle breed thrives in the hot desert climate, making Namibia one of the largest producers of beef on the African continent. While a mature Kenyan bull weighs about 500 kilograms, Namibia’s brahman breed that is twice the height and width of a Kenyan bull, can weigh as much as 1,200 kilograms; that is one point two tonnes of meat in one cow! In the third of a four-part series, ‘courting Namibia’, our reporter tells us how the desert-defying brahman breed can be used to improve the cattle found in arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya