Farmers in eastern Kenya swap maize for sunflowers and cotton to push up earnings
Nationally, the cotton sector is being revitalised under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda and farmers in Yatta, Machakos County, have begun to benefit from improved pricing: a recent price review raised the farm-gate price to Ksh72 per kilogramme from Ksh50, signalling improved returns.
Kenya’s Lake Basin Development Authority plans to ramp up rice production by reducing cost and sidestepping brokers
The authority’s Kibos Rice Mill, which has been in full operation for one year, he said, can mill between three and 4.5 tonnes of paddy per hour. But to avoid stifling private businesses, LBDA, he said, has been passing excess paddy to local millers after taking them through KEBS quality standards.
Armed crime takes control of Garissa in north-eastern Kenya as authorities blame Somali maslah dispute settlement
Complainants, fear being targeted if the decline to agree to Maslah settlement, he explained.
