Maize is the most wide spread crop grown by over 90 percent of farming households in Kenya. Being the main staple food, the crop is largely equated to national food security. Although largely produced for food under rain fed system, the crop is also an important cash crop for many households. The country produces an …
Continue reading Impact of Fall Armyworm infestation on 2017 maize crop
Key messages The national maize post-harvest losses are estimated to be between 12 and 20 percent of the total national production. At a 5-year national average production of 40 million 90-kg bags, the loss is between 4.8 and 8 million bags annually. The estimated national monthly consumption of maize is 3.39 million bags. Kenya, therefore, …
Continue reading Post-harvest losses a key contributor to food insecurity in Kenya
The ever changing agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions that most small scale farmers in Africa are so dependent on has necessitated the need for application of modern agricultural technologies. Some of the factors which affect the farming systems in Africa include the shrinking land sizes, low productivity of most important crops, high levels of land degradation and …
Biotechnology (the use of organisms either in part or whole to make useful products) has been around for a long time. The traditional biotechnology has been widely and generally accepted in most parts of the world, for instance in the making of products like yoghurt, cheese, bread, alcohol fermentation and so on. It is a …
