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The National and County governments have been urged to encourage farmers to take up climate-smart agricultural practices to boost food security in the country. Speaking in Kisumu early this week, Queen Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti said that farmers would realize high yields if they embraced climate-smart agriculture in the wake of climate change, drought and floods….
The National Irrigation Authority (NIA) has urged farmers in the Western Kenya Schemes (WKS) to embrace double-cropping to increase rice production and boost the realization of food security in the country. WKS Manager Kennedy Ouma said that the farmers have been encouraged to undertake the exercise immediately after harvesting rice and plant other crops. He…
The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE), yesterday, received the highest number of bags since the implementation of the new coffee regulations. Co-operatives registered 11,432 bags of coffee for the Tuesday auction. They included 612 bags of AA, 164 PB bags and 3,931 AB bags categorized as clean coffee. The coffee comes from 549 cooperatives and estates…
