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"I prepare dishes like Pilau & Chapati using sorghum. People tell me that I do not age, I tell them it's the result of eating traditional food like millet, pigeonpea..” Phyllis Nduva, 65 Yr old farmer, Kenya.
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#UPDATE Most of the #Sorghum and #Millet trial plots in the project counties have done tremendously well since planting. The farmers are now in the process of thinning and weeding.
#Busia Farmer groups in Bunyala have taken up adding value to #sorghum and #millet to earn extra income. #SOMNI project supports these farmers by providing them with charcoal ovens and basic training on value addition.
Over 6000 small holder farmers have been linked to buyers by the #AVCD program in the six mandate counties. The project has been working with aggregators in Kenya and has established a total of 38 aggregation centers
Benson Kyalo a fish farmer uses #sorghum grain as the raw material for making fish feed for the Catfish and Tilapia that he rears on his farm in Makueni County. He believes using sorghum improves profit margins due to lower feed production costs.
#DYK Striga is a parasitic weed that constrains the growth of cereals in the sub humid areas of Africa. The weed can be managed by hand pulling, weeding on time, inter-cropping with legumes like groundnuts, use of herbicide 2-4 D,field sanitation and deep ploughing.
In #India, 59% of children under 5 and 54% of pregnant women are anemic, while 38% of children in the same age group are stunted. #Biofortification is a cost-effective, sustainable solution to this #nutrition challenge: https://t.co/2RlUXtRYi6
#AVCD has introduced new products in the Kenyan market. These products were developed in collaboration with Makerere University.The objective is to stimulate commercialization of #sorghum and #millets products in a bid to create market opportunities for dryland farmers @ICRISAT