• Kenya's population is rapidly growing, and this calls for amplified measures in food production. Innovations by the Ministry of Agriculture are remedies to the premonitions of drought and hunger nationwide.

Following the enrollment of the vital agricultural program dubbed “Mama Kitchen Garden” in Kakibei Secondary School, Soin constituency, the Principal Secretary of Agriculture, Dr. Paul Ronoh, encouraged farmers to adopt this form of farming as it rises above the growing inadequacy of arable land.

This project aligns with the Ministry’s Bottom-up Transformation Agenda (BETA), which mandates increasing crop yields while managing natural resources, in this case, cultivatable land.

Kenya's population is rapidly growing, and this calls for amplified measures in food production. Innovations by the Ministry of Agriculture are remedies to the premonitions of drought and hunger nationwide.

“This new model will really assist us as a country and as a ministry to optimize on our resources especially land which is a limited resource,” he said.

As the country continues to nurse the wounds of floods, productive lands are among the natural resources destroyed by land and mudslides.

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The Principal Secretary reassured the government’s unwavering commitment to support small-scale farmers, promising provisions of water through drilling of boreholes, water tanks, and seedlings. The Ministry will also conduct capacity building through training to ensure the initiative's success.

The project is set to empower local communities by reducing their reliance on external food sources, making the way for self-sufficiency in food production.