Kenya’s bread basket

Government plans to transform arid counties into Kenya’s bread baskets

The Kenya government plants to transform the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya into bread baskets by reducing overreliance on rain-fed irrigation and instead practice merchandised irrigation farming. In 2017, the number of Kenyans staring at starvation increased to 3.4m from 2.6m in the previous year due to drop in maize production from 37.2m bags […]

Maize production to decline by 30 per cent as farmers face shortage of two million bags of fertilizer

Farmers in Kenya’s bread basket of Rift Valley face a shortage of two million bags of fertilizer at the ongoing planting season in a move that could jeopardize maize harvests and lead to shortage of the commodity at a time when 3.4m Kenyans are staring at starvation. “We are worried that this shortage in addition

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Government plans to transform arid counties into Kenya’s bread baskets

Maize production to decline by 30 per cent as farmers face shortage of two million bags of fertilizer