Flour-blending project and the quest to uplift small-scale sorghum, millet farmers
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By Jael Mboga | February 26th 2021 at 09:20:00 GMT +0300
A millet farm in Kombuini area of Mwea constituency, Kirinyaga County. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]
The government’s plan to blend flour is expected to improve profits for sorghum and millet farmers.
According to the CGIAR Research Programme on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC), major food policy changes are underway in Kenya.
The project that started in 2018 involves blending flour to increase the demand for millet, sorghum, cassava, sweet potato and amaranth.
An article on the CRP-GLDC research says some of the under-utilized high value foods are produced by approximately four million smallholder farmers.