A sorghum farmer attends to his crop at his farm in Muhoroni Kisumu county on ... role in food security especially in semi-arid lands of Kenya as it can survive drought conditions.

Gadam sorghum was introduced to semi-arid regions of eastern Kenya as a way for farmers to improve their food security and earn some income from marginal land. The hardy, high-yielding sorghum ...

As barley production falls, a switch to sorghum is helping farmers cope with changing weather patterns and beer makers keep up production EMALI, Kenya (AlertNet) – As some of East Africa’s ...

Sorghum has changed our lives for the better… say farmers in Wote, eastern Kenya, who have adopted sorghum-legume technologies instead of the traditional maize-bean intercrop. The farmers were ...

A sorghum farmer attends to his crop at his farm in Muhoroni Kisumu county on ... role in food security especially in semi-arid lands of Kenya as it can survive drought conditions.

But in Kenya, another complication has emerged. Farmers in recent months suffered ... Farmer Maximilla Onyura, who farms sorghum in the western county of Busia, said indigenous crops offer a ...

The programme covers crops such as maize, green grams, beans, sorghum and ... trust between farmers and insurers resulting to more farmers adopting insurance products. PHOTO | POOL Since the ...

For many years, sorghum has been a popular food choice in the semi-arid regions of Africa. In Eastern Africa, the crop forms an integral part of diets for people in Ethiopia, Southern Sudan ...

Kenya is struggling to emerge from a drought that put 4 million on food aid last year and saw at least 10 million facing starvation, the highest levels in two decades, according to one report.

Sorghum has changed our lives for the better... say farmers in Wote, eastern Kenya, who have adopted sorghum-legume technologies instead of the traditional maize-bean intercrop. The farmers were ...