Kenya has significantly expanded irrigation since 2022 as part of efforts to boost food production and strengthen ...

Kenya has recorded a substantial surge in local rice production under the administration of President William Ruto, driven by ...

Abdi Madobe is a farmer and water management official in the Bura irrigationscheme in Tana River county. He grows rice, maize, onions and watermelons on 10 acres.“In the past, we used to suffer due to ...

Thousands of farmers in Western Kenya are already feeling the impact of a rapidly expanding irrigation project that the ...

NAIROBI — The government has directed state agencies to purchase unsold stocks from Mwea, in a bid to stabilize prices and support farmers facing a weak market, even as structural production gaps ...

The government has announced a plan to address the infestation of rats and snails in irrigation canals, which has become a significant problem for farmers. During a speech at the Mwea Irrigation ...

New research reveals that the invasive Apple Snail -- which threatens rice crops -- could spread further in Africa. A team of researchers suggest that South West along Tana River, Western Kenya and ...

New research reveals that the invasive Apple Snail—which threatens rice crops—could spread further in Africa. The study is published in the journal CABI Agriculture and Bioscience. A team of ...

KERUGOYA, Kenya, Dec 1 – Mwea Rice Mills (MRM)is one of the assets that government has set for privatization in the recently released Kenyan Gazette. The rice mill is a limited liability company ...

An invasion of apple snail could be "disastrous" for rice production and food security in Kenya as well as other rice growing regions across Africa, according to a new CABI-led study published in the ...

One of the ideas I have looked at as a possible solution to the challenges of small-holder agriculture is cooperatives, where farmers can pool together capital and share resources such as irrigation ...