State-owned KALRO teams up with Korean counterpart to develop pest control practices in Kenya
The programme dubbed “Development of pest monitoring and eco-friendly control technologies for Africa” will tone down the usage of very toxic chemicals farmers have been using by coming up with technologies that are friendly to the farmer that are also cost-effective.
KARLO invests in rice ratoon technology to push up Kenya’s output from current 183,000 tonnes per year
The director noted that KALRO has produced high yielding varieties of rice that are drought tolerant and that with some of the varieties, farmers are able to do direct seeding, while for others they are able to do a ratoon, where immediately they harvest the first crop of rice they only need to add fertilizer and harvest the second time from the ratoon.
