Nairobi, Aug. 5 -- Flavian Obiero, 35, has turned a childhood fascination with livestock into a thriving integrated agribusiness in Fareham, a small town in Hampshire, southern England.

He has built a 61-acre pig farm, a butchery, a catering business and a thriving wholesale meat operation.

Obiero grew up in Kilifi, where he helped neighbours herd cattle. A deeper influence on the animal world came during visits to relatives in Kikuyu, where his uncle and aunt reared pigs, and another family member who had mastered the art of running a profitable pig enterprise.

His family relocated to the UK when he was just 15, in 2006. The transition, he says, was easy because he was still very young.

"I did not struggle with the change as I think ...