(i) Farm inputs are very expensive for small-scale farmers. This has minimized mechanization of sheep farming
(ii) Inadequate land parcels/pieces of land due to high population growth rate
(iii) Extensive and abrupt droughts lower production. This has restricted sheep farming to the Kenyan highlands
(iv) Disease outbreaks that kill sheep
(v) Poor market of sheep farming produce
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