Food security in Kenya is a challenge due to increasing demand from the growing population and impacts of climate change among other factors. The impact of climate change is felt on rainfall pattern in terms of seasonal variability and long-term change. Therefore, it is necessary to go beyond the normal intensification of food production to […]
The System of Rice Intensification, developed some four decades ago in Madagascar, started receiving international attention only after 2002. As SRI methods have been found repeatedly to evoke more productive and robust rice phenotypes from given genotypes, its use has spread, and the methodology has now been validated in >60 countries. During this process, the […]
[March 30, 2020] When SRI was introduced in the Mwea irrigation scheme in Kenya in 2009, mechanization of rice cultivation existed in the form of primary land tillage and rotavation – which were, and continue to be done by tractor. The tractors were owned by the National Irrigation Board (NIB) and tillage services were leased […]