Nakuru Agriculture News

Cassava Emerges as a Climate-Smart Crop for Kenya’s Drylands
In the sun-scorched plains of Solai, Nakuru County, farmer Joseph Muigai stands beside his exhibition

A boost to pyrethrum value chain as Nakuru partners with KOICA
Nakuru County will partner with The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to improve and increase

Nakuru County and Kenya Flower Council to forge partnerships
Leonard Bor, the Nakuru County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Veterinary

County to rehabilitate Banita Livestock market
The County Government of Nakuru through the Kenya Livestock Commercialization Project (KeLCOP) held a public

Project boosts Nakuru extension services
Nakuru County has received laptops from Kenya Cereal Enhancement Program- Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods (KCEP-CRAL),

County supporting avocado farming
In collaboration with partners, the County Government of Nakuru has distributed over 500,000 avocado seedlings

ACWICT partners with county to train farmers
The County Government of Nakuru in Collaboration with the African Centre for Women, Information and

Castor farming in Nakuru
The County Government of Nakuru in collaboration with ENI Kenya B.V has embarked on promotion

Nakuru County registering farmers
The Nakuru County Department of Agriculture has issued tablets and backup power banks to all

Farmers urged to practice green leafy vegetables farming
Farmers in Nakuru county have been urged to practice green leafy vegetable farming since it

Uasin Gishu explores ways of increasing milk production
The County Government of Uasin Gishu on Friday engaged officials from Vital Animal Health company

Nakuru inducts new agriculture department employees
About 140 new recruits from the Department of Agriculture have commenced a three-day induction training

Traders benefit from carrot safety training
About fifty small scale carrot farmers from MauNarok are set to benefit from the Voluntary

Farmers trained on feed formulation
The Nakuru County Government has trained 40 trainers of trainers (ToTs) on dairy feed formulation.

Coffee farmers get support in Nakuru
A partnership between the County Government of Nakuru and the Kenya Coffee Platform Association (KCPA)

Nakuru among counties in Food systems project
Nakuru County is among three counties implementing the Governance of Food Systems project in partnership

Nakuru desilts dams to prepare for drought
The County Government through the National Agricultural and Rural Inclusive Growth Project (NARIGP) project is

Revitalizing the pyrethrum sub-sector
The National government in collaboration with the county governments targets to revitalize the pyrethrum crop

Living Lab launched in Nakuru
The County Government of Nakuru in partnership with Egerton University has launched the Nakuru living

Nakuru bulking fodder planting material
Farmers groups in Kuresoi North, Gilgil, Njoro, Molo, Nakuru Town West, Rongai and Naivasha sub-counties

Nakuru to modernize slaughterhouses
The County Government of Nakuru has embarked on a program to renovate and modernize slaughterhouses

Kuresoi farmers earn from Pyrethrum farming
Over 231 farmers in Kuresoi South who were given free pyrethrum seedlings by Nakuru County

Governor mourns farmer
Nakuru County Governor Lee Kinyanjui says the county has lost one of the greatest dairy

Nakuru looking for vegetables and herbs market
Nakuru County is in talks with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to seek

Nakuru county launches breed improvement program
The Nakuru County Government has launched the breed improvement program in a bid to increase

Alert on Locust Invasion in Nakuru County
The County Government of Nakuru has sent out an alert of a possible invasion of

Bee keepers Cooperative gets a boost from County Government
MARKILANJO Bee Keepers Cooperative has received 20 beehives and other bee equipment from Nakuru Ciunty