Land fragmentation in Kisii affecting agricultural productivity, Says Governor Arati

Kisii County Governor Simba Arati has commended Kisii University for their commitment in research and dissemination on matters affecting agricultural productivity in the region.

In a meeting attended by majority of stakeholders in the agriculture sector was hosted in the University, Arati said that land is the main factor of production in agriculture and underscored need for its scholarly attention.

The workshop that took place on Friday was organized by Land Commission of Kenya (LCK) to deliberate on the effects of land fragmentation and food security and agricultural productivity.

Governor Arati highlighted the County’s unsustainability as caused by land fragmentation and called for urgent solution suggesting land consolidation as an immediate panacea.

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The workshop that engaged world experts in agriculture like Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and high county officials welcomed the idea of land consolidation to compact fragmentation that has led to food shortage and community misunderstandings over land ownership.

The National land Commission experts promised to engage communities from time to time holding of workshops to sensitize them on the importance of handling land as a major resource of human survival by embracing the correct methods of farming.

The workshop ended in a high note of optimism with Kisii University Vice Chancellor ( VC) Prof Nathan Ogechi saying that if its resolutions will be adapted, they place region at a safer place void of food insecurity which is the one of the main threads in develipment.

By Enock Okong’o.

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