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Swynnerton Plan. The Swynnerton Plan was a colonial agricultural policy that appeared as a government report in 1954 in Kenya, aiming to intensify the development of agricultural practice in the Kenya Colony. The plan was geared to expanding native Kenyan's cash-crop production through improved markets and infrastructure, the distribution of ...
Agriculture in Kenya dominates Kenya's economy. 15–17 percent of Kenya's total land area has sufficient fertility and rainfall to be farmed, and 7–8 percent can be classified as first-class land. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2006, almost 75 percent of working Kenyans made their living by farming, compared with 80 percent in 1980. [ 1 ]
The International Livestock Research Institute or ILRI is an international agricultural research institute within the CGIAR – formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research. [1] It was established in 1994 by merger of the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases in Nairobi in Kenya, and the ...
Ministry of Agriculture (Kenya) The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries or simply the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA or MoA) is a government ministry of Kenya. Its head office is in the Kilimo House in Nairobi. [1]
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries may refer to: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (Tanzania) - the former ministry of Tanzania, Ministry of Agriculture (Kenya) - the full name of Kenya's agriculture ministry. Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Elevage et de la Pêche - the ministry of Madagascar
Mohamed is the CEO of Kenya Livestock Marketing Council (KLMC). [2][3] He was elected to the 11th national assembly of Kenya in 2013 on the ticket of URP and with support of Jubilee Coalition. In the parliament, he served on the house committee on Defense and Foreign Relations. He lost reelection to Rashid Kassim Amiin in 2017.
2008–2009 Kenya drought. Between 2008 and early 2010, Kenya, one of the countries of Eastern Africa, was affected by a severe drought, which put ten million people at risk of hunger and caused a large number of deaths to livestock in Kenyan Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), constituting around 88% of the country. [3] [4]
Information and communication technology in agriculture (ICT in agriculture), also known as e-agriculture, is a subset of agricultural technology focused on improved information and communication processes. More specifically, e-agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of innovative ways to use ...