Food security in Kenya is at stake due to decline in farm productivity with a combination of an ever increasing population and worsened by global warming. Improvement of agricultural productivity may not be realized soon as rice farmers currently uses traditional method of flooding rice which has been reported to yield low rice. There is […]
This paper examined the factors influencing rice productivity in Mwea Irrigation Scheme using the System of rice intensification (SRI) and conventional flooding (CF). Stratified sampling was used to obtain 364 smallholder rice farmers for interviewing. Data collection was done with the aid of a semi-structured questionnaire and analyzed using the Endogenous Switching regression Model (ESRM). […]
Water available for irrigation has drastically reduced in recent years, especially in agricultural areas of Kenya, due to climate variability as well as unprecedented expansion of irrigation projects. As a result, any intervention that can save water, while also increasing crop yields and quality of produce is a welcome intervention. This is where the System […]