The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Organization (KALRO) is conducting trials on new genetically improved passion fruit planting material that is resistant to Fusarium wilt, brown spot, passion fruit woodiness virus complex, phytophthora root rot and nematodes. According to Joseph Ndung’u, a plant biochemist at KALRO, though the global demand for the fruit by consumers and […]
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The Kenya Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and the European Union (EU) funded Market Access Upgrade Programme (MARKUP) have embarked on promoting new farming technologies for breeding multiple disease free and high yielding macadamia and passion fruit planting material in a bid to enhance quality and safety standards for export market. Antony Nyaga a Phytologist at KALRO’s Macadamia Center, noted that […]
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A growing number of middle-aged women in Nakuru from low income backgrounds are dying from cervical cancer, County Reproductive Coordinator Ms Clara Kerich has warned. Ms Kerich said the overall trend of cervical cancer burden in Kenya had risen sharply in the past eight years; from 3,286 cases in 2012 to 5,236 new cases reported […]
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The United Kingdom (UK) is committed to promoting mentorship of girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in Kenya in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), as a way of preparing them for vital careers in energy, information technology and engineering sectors. UK’s High Commissioner to Kenya Ms Jane Marriott said there is a need to scale up interventions aimed […]
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Efforts to revive the pyrethrum sector received a major boost after the County government of Nakuru distributed 500,000 seedlings to farmers in Kuresoi North Sub-County. Governor Lee Kinyanjui, called on the 18 pyrethrum growing counties in Kenya to ensure that farmers get quality and certified planting material as a way of revitalizing the sector, which […]
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