Kenya Hosts Global Agriculture Conference
Kenya is hosting an international conference focusing on digital financial services for agriculture, organisers said yesterday.
The conference, that opens today through to Friday, is organised by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in partnership with the Central Bank of Kenya and African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (Afraca).
"The conference will bring together more than 600 leading decision-makers and financiers from public and private organisations across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)," said a statement issued in Nairobi on Sunday.
Kenya to become oil producer by 2017
Kenya is expected to join the league of oil producing countries in Sub Saharan Africa by 2017, going by the efforts of UK-listed Tullow Oil and partner, Australia’s Africa Oil Corporation to submit a field development plan (FDP) by 2015. Although the first oil discovery in Kenya was only made 2 years ago by the two oil companies in the North-west of Kenya;
a region called Turkana County, the oil explorers believe production can be started within the next three years.
Kenya: Kisumu to Invest in Agriculture
The Kisumu county government plans to invest in farm inputs and educating farmers on modern agriculture methods and technologies.
Agriculture executive Stephen Orot yesterday said this will enhance food security in the county.
He said they will improve provision of certified seeds, extension services and irrigation to boost the quality of agriculture products and increase yields.
Biotechnology can enhance food production in Kenya
The recent endorsement of agricultural biotechnology by President Barack Obama through a letter to Julie Borlaug, the granddaughter of Norman Borlaug, the ‘father of the Green Revolution’, is a pointer of how important this technology is in food production and security in the world.
President Obama said that he shares his belief that “investment in enhanced biotechnology is an essential component of the solution to some of our planet’s most pressing agricultural problems,”
