FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Smart Harvest
By Kepher Otieno | April 4th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
A rice farmer in a battered rice field in Ahero, Kisumu County. [Kepher Otieno, Standard]
Elizabeth Omollo, 61, stares at her empty eight-acre rice farm in Nyando rice belt in Kisumu County with sadness.
She has not had a proper rice harvest for the past five years due to a shortage of rainfall. Her main source of water is river Lie Lang o, which supplies Chiga, Boda and Ambululu rice schemes.
River Lie Lang o, flows from the foothills of Nandi. Most farmers in the rice belt rely on the river and rainfall for their rice fields but these are now unreliable.
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Smart Harvest
By Kepher Otieno | February 16th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
For years farmers with degraded soils in Nyanza have had to rely on fertiliser from the shops to boost their soil health or nutrients. But now farmer Sophia Akelo says they have discovered that the mucuna bean or velvetbean, can be used as green manure to help rebuild soils nutrients quickly. [Kepher Otieno, Standard]
When The Smart Harvest and Technology team visits, Sophia Akello is busy weeding in her farm in Chiga, Kibos village in Kisumu County. She grows Velvet bean, (scientifically known as Mucuna Pruriens) alongside arrow roots.
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