Takaful Insurance will pay livestock farmers about Sh500,000 for losses incurred during the December to March dry season.

A boy herds cattle. Takaful Insurance says that 4,000 farmers have insured their livestock against drought out of an estimated 92,000. FILE.

The farmers, 30 women and 71 men from Wajir County, are the first to be compensated after they took up the Shariah compliant Index-Based Livestock Takaful (IBLT) cover in August 2013. Continue reading…

By John Gachiri, Business daily

Posted  Monday, March 24  2014 at  19:27