Centre pivot irrigation machine. [Gideon Maundu, Standard] More than 80 per cent of Kenya’s land mass is made up of arid and semi-arid areas. So, if Kenya is to increase its agricultural production, which currently accounts for 22.4 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, it must turn to irrigation-based farming in the arid and semi-arid areas. Agricultural engineer Bancy ...

Alvaro Lario President Of The International Fund For Agricultural Development Ifad With William Ruto President Of Kenya On his first official visit to Kenya, Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), met with William Ruto, President of Kenya, to strengthen IFAD and Kenya’s long-standing partnership to scale up investments in agriculture ...

Deputy foreign minister says extension of grain deal depends on ‘tangible progress’ on lifting sanctions on agriculture. The Russian deputy foreign minister on Friday said Moscow is preparing two shipments of fertilizers to Kenya and Nigeria free of charge. Speaking to Rossiya 24 TV channel, Sergey Vershinin said Russia wants to send its fertilizers, blocked ...

Africa’s fish industry faces a significant supply-demand discrepancy, with aquaculture poised to fill the gap as demand continues to grow across the continent. “The East African fish supply deficit is one of the greatest supply-demand imbalances in the global food system today,” said Kenya-based aquaculture company Victory Farms in a recent statement to announce a ...

Nairobi, Kenya, 19th April 2023: The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, CWEIC, has selected agro input company Elgon Kenya as its strategic partner and appointed its Managing Director Dr. Bimal Kantaria to its global advisory council. The not-for-profit organization, is the Commonwealth’s business network. With over 100 business and government strategic partners from 31 countries and territories, CWEIC ...

Nairobi, Kenya, 17th April 2023: The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, CWEIC, has selected agro input company Elgon Kenya as its strategic partner and appointed its Managing Director Dr. Bimal Kantaria to its global advisory council. The not-for-profit organization, is the Commonwealth’s business network. With over 100 business and government strategic partners from 31 countries and territories, CWEIC ...

The country’s Agriculture PS Harsama Kello said they had mapped out land belonging to Kenya Agriculture Livestock Research Organisation, Kenya National Youth Service, Kenya Prisons and Agriculture Development Corporation to be put under crop cover. Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture will finance key state corporations to put 500,000 acres of their idle land under maize production ...

Nairobi, Kenya April 13, 2023:  Millions of women around the world are essential to the production of the world’s food and resources — yet they are often underpaid or forced to work in unsafe or unfair conditions. As such, effective policies are critical if research innovations are to provide gender-inclusive, sustainable solutions which allow Africa to ...

Kenya’s Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi who has said Kenya is contracting Zambian farmers to grow maize exclusively for the Kenyan market. On the other hand, Zambia’s Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said his country will not be exporting maize to Kenya this season because it has a deficit in the grain. PHOTO | SILA ...

HEALTHY MAIZE: A farmer goes through his maize plantation Image: FILE Communication Manager Hellen Dena said it was unsettling for the ministry to lease land in Zambia when Kenya has about 5.8 million hectares of fertile land. She added that the move was a deviation from President William Ruto’s promise of a Bottom-Up approach. Greenpeace ...