climate adaptation

JKUAT researchers encourage farmers to grow hybrid Chinese millet

Researchers from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the Chinese Center for Agricultural Resources Research (CARR) are sensitising farmers on efficiently cultivating and managing the nutritious, high-yielding, drought, and disease-resistant Chinese hybrid foxtail millet.  The millet variety takes about half the time to ripen compared to most local varieties and adapts …

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passion

Fruit farming boon to drought-hit farmers

The adoption of farming different fruits in Machakos, Kitui and Makueni counties, famously known as Ukambani or Eastern Kenya region is keeping alive hopes of many farmers from the region which has for years been threatened by poor harvesting. Most parts of the country especially eastern region for instance experienced below-normal rainfall that was mainly …

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