New Rice Varieties Helping Kenya Meet Targets
- Boniface Mwangi
- Sep 8, 2016
- 1 min read
The Agriculture ministry has adopted a three-pronged strategy to double rice production in Mwea Irrigation Scheme which provides 80 per cent of the grain consumed in Kenya.
It has come up with new rice varieties, new seed varieties that are resilient to climate change, and strives to change farming systems.
The ministry, in partnership with Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and South Korea, has introduced machinery in rice production unlike in the past when farmers depended mainly on manual labour.
Neil Palmer/CIAT
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