Kenya’s maize production for 2013/14 marketing year will be 2.8m - TopicsExpress



          

Kenya’s maize production for 2013/14 marketing year will be 2.8m tonnes, compared to 3.2m tonnes in 2012/13. The average national yields have dropped from a high of two tonnes per hectare in 1986 to less than 1.5 tonnes per hectare in 2013. With continued sub-division of land, the decline will continue. We now must deliberately intervene through policy and discourage subsistent farming while at the same time promoting large scale farming with a more consistent sources of water. There is greater need today to leverage on technology to build a commodities market complete with warehousing facilities that would minimise post-harvest losses. bit.ly/1rCl22a
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:47:15 +0000

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